Painting and Out of Town Trip

Since the weather has turned cold and the outside chores are all done, I decided it was a good time to work on my bedroom project.  On Monday I got three of the walls painted in a nice shade of green and yesterday painted the fourth wall in a color called Oklahoma Wheat.  With all the furniture moved away from the walls, it was the perfect time to wipe down all the baseboards and give the room a good cleaning.  Now I need to decide which of my photographs I want to put back on the walls and then the project will be completed.  I'll post a picture of the room when I get everything back in place.

While I kept busy painting, John worked on the wood pile cutting, splitting and stacking more wood.  He also worked on organizing his new shop and moving some of his tools from our attached garage.

After such a busy couple of days, we decided it was time to relax and headed out of town to Grand Forks.  We arrived around noon, so our first stop was Culver's for some lunch.  From there we hit Michael's and Bed, Bath, & Beyond.  As we were driving down the street to Sam's Club, we saw a brand new Hobby Lobby and just had to stop.  John and I spent the next 45 minutes wandering through the new store and found some artificial flowers we thought would look nice with the new paint in our bedroom.  Our next stop was Sam's Club with a final one at Cabela's back on the Minnesota side of the Red River.  On the way home we made a stop at Subway for a couple of subs for supper and ate them in front of the TV while we watched Survivor.

La-ate Night

It was after 12:30 in the morning before we got home from Sam's football game and after 1 a.m. before we finally got to bed.  The Bears put up a good fight, but lost with a final score of 38-24.  The football season is officially over for this year.  Since we got home so late, we slept in this morning and pretty much vegged out today.  John did manage to get some of the leaves picked up with the lawn mower and put them on the garden.  I got the wallpaper border down in the bedroom and cleaned the walls so now I can get started on painting.

Jenni's birthday is on Tuesday, so Joanne had both sets of grandparents up to the house for supper and a little party.  We spent a couple of hours visiting and playing a game of "31" before we hit the road back home and called it a day.

 Jenni modeling her new hood sweatshrt

Finally, A Sunny Day

After what felt like a week of cloudy rainy weather, the skies cleared off today and we had some much appreciated sunshine.  The temps were even a little warmer, but the winds were quite strong with gusts up to 30 mph.

John took advantage of the good weather to cut, split, and stack more firewood.  The woodshed is just about full.

 
Since the ground was a little bit drier, the guys that bought our storage trailers came this afternoon and hauled away the remaining two trailers.  They had gotten stuck before when they tried to pull them out, but it went very smoothly this afternoon.  Now John has another job--tearing down the wall and smoothing out the dirt bank.

I kept busy today listing more items on ebay and getting the month end finances done.  Not too much happening around here right now.  Tomorrow night we head up to Hallock, MN for Sam's second playoff game.  It's about 2 1/2 hours north of us and about 20 miles from Canada.

 
 

Cold is Here to Stay

I checked the long range forecast today and found that our high temps will only be in the mid to upper 30's for the next ten days.  We were hoping that some warmer weather would return, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen.  It certainly has been an unusual fall with temps being at least 10 degrees above normal at the beginning of the month and now the sudden drop to below normal with snow showers just about every day.

Fortunately, John got the outside chores done just in time and now spends an hour or so each day cutting firewood.  He actually prefers cutting it when the temps are on the cooler side.  I spent some time today packing up my recent ebay sales.  All the DVD's I listed sold, so I had to get them ready for shipping.  I still have a few more items to list, but I'll wait until the weekend to get that job done.  My next big project will be getting the bedroom walls ready for painting--I just have to get motivated to get started.

Big Win for the Bears

Just got home from the football game where the Bears won 38-14, beating the number 8th ranked team in the state.  This was the first playoff game, so now they will play again this Saturday.  The weather was pretty cold--temps in the low 30's with snow flurries--so John and I bundled up with many layers of clothing and managed to stay warm.  The only thing that got cold on me were my hands.  

This was the perfect ending to a busy day which started off with an early morning appointment with my arthritis doctor for my six month checkup.  After I finished up at the clinic, we stopped at Perkins for breakfast and then did a little grocery shopping, stopped at Home Depot to pick up the paint for the bedroom, and then made one final stop to purchase a small air compressor to be used in John's shop.  We relaxed for an hour or so, and then headed off to the game.  Now we're both tired and ready to hit a nice warm bed.

Another Chilly Day

The clouds hung around all day with rain/snow showers off and on.  The temps didn't even get out of the 30's. 

John spent some time this morning down in the shop moving a piece of machinery and making room to park his truck.  The old machine shop is now going to be used as a garage/storage area.  While he was busy with that job, I did some laundry and spent quite a bit of time on the computer getting tickets for our trip to California for Thanksgiving.  John had enough "miles" for a free ticket, so we only had to pay for mine.  This afternoon he bundled up and cut more firewood and stacked it in the woodshed.  The rest of the day we just took care of a few household chores and stayed toasty warm in the house.

A Light Dusting of Snow

The rain of yesterday turned into a light snow overnight, so with the weather being so yucky, we were pretty much housebound today with the exception of our outing for church.

John and I spent most of our afternoon watching the NFL with little naps every once in a while.  I did manage to open the paint samples I got at Home Depot the other day and paint a few sections of the bedroom walls to see what color I liked and I think I have finally settled on the colors I want.  Just have to let them sit a day or two to make sure.  Since it was such a dreary day, I baked some cookies to help warm up the house.  That was pretty much our day--nothing much happening around here right now.