For the record… when you move to a new place every day off you have is spent working. EVERY. DAY. OFF.
Sunday should be a day of rest.
My Nanny never “worked” on Sunday… but she always cooked and cleaned up afterward. For me, cooking is harder work than painting or even mowing. Yesterday, I painted, Subway fed us plus Ben and Colette, and Perry mowed.
I transformed a downstairs bedroom! Out with barn red (with orangish floors – it was pretty awful)…
…and in with Behr’s 2022 color of the year… Breezeway (an icy green):
I patched all the bad spots in the drywall (never pull off command strips without simply pulling down on the sticky stuff):
And covered those dark, dreary walls with one coat of a light and relaxing hue:
Everyone likes something different. I get that. And I love dark paint colors — I just don’t like dark red for walls in a house. Barns are painted red for the sake of tradition to replicate barns of old.
Hundreds of years ago, farmers would seal their barns with linseed oil and add rust to it. Not only was rust plentiful on farms, it also kills fungi and moss. Since I’m pretty sure there won’t be mushrooms growing inside (at least I hope there won’t be), I figure Breezeway is a better fit. 😉
Freezing cold tonight!
Guess tonight we’ll see how well these split units handle the cold. Not cold enough for a fire in the stove and radiant floor heat, but 27°F is frigid when yesterday it was above 70°F.
TIL (Today I Learned): When Nevada became a state in 1864 it did not include the southern tip where Las Vegas now is. Arizona claimed that land until Congress rewarded the land to Nevada in 1866 for staying with the Union.