Day Before Thanksgiving

Rained over night, this was the first time the boys spent the night inside with their new mats and shavings. We allowed the little guys free run of the barn. In the morning she was covered in shavings. She loves these shavings.

Short day, slim staff at the job, just glad to be home on a finally sunny afternoon. Promises to get cold later in the evening.

He spent his free afternoon spending money. He went to the Big Orange Box, buying two doors: one for the blue popcorned room, one for the living room coat closet. Both are missing. There was only one door in the entire house that was not broken; we moved that to the downstairs bathroom. All the other doorways had either broken or missing doors.

Our short-term goal is to move the bed into the blue popcorned bedroom by Christmas. I don't know if that will happen, but getting a door on it is certainly a start. And it's a nice, wooden door.

He had to repair the door frame and some of the framing to realign the moulding. He used Bondo to repair where the latch had obviously been kicked in. This house has so many issues like that. This is just one small item.

Also in this room is where the former doorway to the bathroom was located. There is now a doorway-sized hole in the wall that will need to be drywalled. We have drywall stacked in the basement. He also has a 5-gallon bucket of mud to skim-coat the popcorn. This room will not be blue.