Long Weekend

What a nice long weekend!  I've been off since Thursday, Aaron had to work early Friday morning, but was off by 2.  We both had today off and got a lot done around here.

Thanksgiving was good, we took a pumpkin and apple pie and this braised cabbage - yum!  

I braved downtown on Friday morning by myself, but honestly didn't see much that I wanted.  I hit up Greenbaum's when they opened to get a random discount, I drew the largest, 25% off.  So I stocked up on solids and this whale flannel I've been eyeing for weeks.

Saturday morning we headed out to Minto Brown to ride our bikes.  Many of the paths were flooded.  We had made it across a few shallow areas when we came to this bridge.  We couldn't tell how deep it was, so Aaron went for it.  As you can see he didn't make too far.  Once he stopped moving it was problematic and let's just say this did not end well for his left foot.

We found ourselves in Independence for one reason or another and had lunch at the Pink House Cafe.  My food was good, but Aaron wasn't too impressed with his.  The service was wonderful and it has great reviews, but I don't know that we were wowed enough to go back.  

Sunday we drove to Corvallis to pick up Aaron's BeerAdvent Calendar.  We picked up some dough balls from American Dream, we do this every time we are in town and make up 8 small pizzas and freeze them.  After that we went to Winco, Home Depot and Market of Choice.  So much easier to run errands there, as everything is so much closer.  On the way home we stopped at our favorite old growth trail for a wonderful hike.

Today we got the automatic chicken door going - ran an extension cord through the garage wall and into the coop for power.  They are enjoying running around here.

All throughout the weekend (and over the last few weeks, and yes, months) we worked on the guest bedroom.  We are finally (almost) done!  With painting at least.  This photo shows the color the best, which is Pittsburgh Paints in "Pistachio" - made up with Sherwin Williams SuperPaint.  Trim is Sherwin Williams "Extra White".  I used their ProClassic interior waterbased acrylic-alkyd, semi gloss and really like the self leveling results.

Aaron cleaned and polished ALL the hardware from all the doors.  What a difference that makes.

This room took me so many hours to paint!  It took about 3.5 hours to paint one coat on all the trim, not even the doors and everything got 4 coats - 1 of primer (Sherwin Williams Adhesion Primer), 3 of the trim paint.  This room has a lot going on, 2 windows, 2 doors and 2 smaller doors.  We cut and painted all the quarter round and got that in tonight, then Aaron caulked everything to finish it off.

It's hard to see, but we really liked this light that came with the house.  Aaron removed the base and painted it to clean it up a bit.

Just a few things left to do here, we need to replace a lot of the electrical, so face plates are needed and the register needs to be painted white.

But overall, I'm checking this room off the list!

P.S. Here are some before pictures.  I really don't have many - total fail on my part!
Here is the room with their things in it.  You can't see the carpet.

Here is the room - I think the only picture I have of the carpet, oops - with carpet and the first god awful color we picked out.  It's Sherwin Williams "Gleeful" at 50%.  We tore out the carpet before we had the floors refinished.

Much better I think!