We started the day with another run to Home Depot for more paint and supplies. Then we returned and finished priming the whole house. We even did the ceilings in the kitchen and bathroom and the walls in the kitchen--just in case! I think it looks awful, but have been reassured that it's PRIMER and therefore not meant to look good.
After that, we cleaned up and rested a bit before heading out for ANOTHER trip to Home Depot (to get some more painting supplies for tomorrow and to pick up some heating vent covers in case the duct cleaner needs them)
After supper G. pounded some nails into each of the 12 remaining stumps, and wrapped a towing chain around the nails. He then connected the chain to:
Yep. Mom's CRV. It's probably just as well that she's in California now and didn't see what we did with her car. (in all honesty, we'd have used one of our vehicles, but since they're not SUV's, they didn't have the towing loop thing).
G. dug out the stumps as best he could, snipping side roots along the way. He attached the chain, and then I drove the car (wise thinking on his part in case anything happened to Mom's car, I guess). In between time, I did some weeding:
G. is brilliant--it worked like a charm:
We still have to clean up the stumps before the village will take them. I'll post pics when they're out of the back yard. They look so odd--they still have the burlap sack around the root balls from when they were put in!
Tomorrow, if all else goes well, we'll start to paint the ceilings with actual ceiling paint and the trim with trim paint.
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I see you decided to paint the wood trim and around the windows. I've thought of doing that at my house but wasn't sure how it would work with the windows. It looks good, though, to have the white trim even with the wood windows - I may have to try it. Did you take windows out to paint?
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