It was pretty cold this morning and that kept me in bed for longer than necessary. Once I finally got up I did some organizing outside, mainly moving the old wood flooring out of the way. I brought in the cabinets with the front end loader and then began clearing the area for us to assemble and install them. I also unloaded my new cedar for the front porch. My dad arrived as I was starting to scrape paint off the kitchen windows. We launched into the cabinets right away. I unboxed them and he assembling them, and together we installed them. I have to say that they look pretty good. And the price was amazing. Now I am just waiting for the apartment cabinets and the vanities to arrive. Tomorrow I hope to go to Southeastern Salvage and buy countertops. Liz wants butcher block. Actually she wants concrete, but that isn’t happening now, although it might at a later time.

We got the cabinets all set and my dad called it a day. I threw the cabinet boxes and some trash bags on the trailer and took them to the dump. Don’t worry, I recycled the cardboard. From there I went to TSC. They had five of the twelve shelf brackets that I needed. I drove up to the TSC in Triune and bought the remaining seven. They are pretty nice and a decent price, and that saves me the trouble of tracking them down on Etsy.

Back at the condo was most of the stuff I ordered off Amazon, Wayfair, and Home Depot. I will take it all down to the farm tomorrow.

The Little Man was finishing up his dinner when I arrived. I read him a new book, Goodnight Gorilla (mini review: it’s pretty lame), and then he went to bed. Liz and I have been discussing house stuff since. She will go to Home Depot and make some decisions tomorrow.

I feel a lot like Michaelangelo, but maybe that is just because of all the paint fumes I breathed in today. The day started early with spackling the remaining shiplap. That went a bit more slowly than expected. Eventually I finished though, and after lunch got my new paint sprayer hooked up. That process was tedious. But once everything was set we were really off to the races. It sprayed differently from my other sprayer. Not better or worse, just different. I only had time to do the primer. I am pretty happy with how it looks. Tomorrow morning I hope to apply the finish coat. Clean up was a little bit of a pain, but not too bad. My dad continued sanding and painting the drywall. He is nearly finished. It is a little cooler this evening. We went to see Zach at Big Box and told him we’ll be by tomorrow to pick up the cabinets. I hope to assemble and install them in the afternoon. I am pretty filthy from painting and sweating. A shower would be nice. Tomorrow night I might have a little fire out back because it is supposed to get down to 28 degrees.

Not much to say except it was a long day of work. It took considerably more time to install the cedar in the apartment living room than I expected. Part of that was due to my inefficiency. I will be better on the master bedroom tomorrow. For starters I already cut all of my pieces. I’ll also bring a bunch of them up on the scaffolding with me to reduce trips up and down. I was also disappointed that I couldn’t get the pieces at the peak to fit together properly. I will need to cover with some trim. My dad did a lot more drywall sanding and painting today. That is looking good. We worked until dark then ran some errands in town. Now I’m at McDonald’s using their internet on my Chromebook to order a bunch of house components. The weather is very pleasant for November.