Painting Progress

As I was painting the cabinets I realized I had chosen the colors of food. Grape, raspberry, and silver. No, silver is not a food---but sometimes you can take colloidal silver for antibacterial purposes, only if you take too much of it you'll turn blue like Krishna.

But, then it also occurred to me that I had chosen the Red Hat Ladies colors! (Not the silver, they only use the red and purple.) How did this happen? I thought I had picked Shrone colors. Well, these are Shrone colors, but I probably should have done purple tones and skipped the raspberry, but the raspberry looked so divine on the color card against the color called Wizard, that I knew my cabinets were destined to be Raspberry Pudding and Wizard with Metallic Silver accent. Now Pooky thinks we should paint the knobs in a blueberry color, which I think will add to the deliciousness of the colors. We also found metallic silver blinds and will get those because the current window treatment is a white blind and just wouldn't work out.

He's also got the bug in his butt to build a new shelving unit to replace the makeshift worthless shelves that exist, so it will be a pantry when he's done with it and we can at last put away the rotisserie, crockpot, mixer, microwave, and all of the other appliance crap we've managed to collect, and also store our soup cans nicely.

And because I now have to contort my body on our toilets to drain my bag, we're getting one new toilet with an extended bowl so I don't have to spread eagle and slip into a yoga posture just to drain it. On both toilets the evil wooden seats are going and we're getting regular white seats. I wish we could change both toilets to extended bowls, but the toilet downstairs was put into a broom closet—I kid you not! The room exits to the basement, so you pass through the bathroom to get down into it (common in these older homes to stick a toilet wherever). Pooky says there isn't enough room to enlarge the toilet in that room, so for now I'll have to endure until we can make a for-real bathroom downstairs.

Maybe we could turn the mud room into a bathroom? Right now the room serves as a junk space because it really has no purpose since two walls are all windows. If we get rid of the door to the outside and cover up the windows we could make it a genuine bathroom. Well, it all depends upon things. It's easier to come up with remodeling ideas than making them a reality.

The paint beckons. I can slap on some Shrone purple and then prime the next section of cabinets. The beasties have been very good about not rubbing against the wet paint.

We've been getting chunky rain, and the occasional snowflake the size of a dessert plate, but we're too warm for it to stick. It's funny to say that it is too warm because it feels like it is freezing, yet it is 35°!