Paint

After painting SIX closets which also meant removing all the shelving and then reinstalling it all, I moved on to painting walls.

Master bedroom closet.

Linen closet

I started with the master bedroom.  One wall was chocolate brown.

The other 3 walls were "white" but the people were smokers.  You can sort of see how the top half of the walls were much more yellow than lower down.  The white blob is where I started painting.

I think I have a problem.  Getting this room painted all white made me so freakin' happy!  I mean, like seriously deliriously happy.

Putting the kids to work

The kids have been showing up to help with the new place now and then.  Austin came to install a new door knob/lock.  Total fail.

He did a little better taking down curtain rods.

Madison and Mitchell took down a light fixture to install a ceiling fan.

But apparently we didn't have screws and washers so it's still on the floor.

Why?

In the "learn something new every day" category, apparently when they build manufactured homes, they put the linoleum down first, then build the walls.  This is the linoleum coming out from under the walls around the bathroom.  And stopping 12" into the dining room.  WTH?

The entry way had carpet everywhere except that little rectangle.  How it stayed flat under the carpet is a mystery. As soon as we pulled up the carpet, those edges started curling up.

And you put linoleum in only half the bathroom?? Why??

The lino from the bathroom even crept into the one bathroom.

And plastic came out into another bedroom. Where the heck is that coming from?

New Ride

We'd been looking for a car for Austin for a while.  The Excursion was dying a slow death and at 12 MPH, the gas was killing us.  Since Austin was going to be starting a new job this summer for the DNR in Pinckney, it was time for some new wheels.

Madison happened to see that her friend Paige was getting a new car so we quickly called her dad about her old one.  Mike is a engineer for Ford and keeps a SPOTLESS garage.  His cars are the same.

We have a happy boy.

The fun begins

When you buy a house that pretty much needs paint everywhere and all the flooring replaced, you have to be strategic if you also want to start moving stuff in at the same time.  I have 30 days.  To paint, replace the flooring and move.  Get ready, start, GO!

First step was buying a screw gun that is "Michelle sized".  Love this little guy!

Next step, remove all the wire shelving in all the closets to paint.  These closets will become "off the floor" storage places until the flooring gets done.

Painted white.  Of course!

And then to put all the shelves back in.  Took me a few tries but finally found an "easy" way to do it.

Voila!

Baseball

Austin started the season on JV but WLHS is such a small school they couldn't support both a JV and Varsity team. They already had half their JV kids playing on both teams so mid season, they combined the two teams.  The JV team hadn't had much success and the varsity team was off to a slow start and had issue with the coach but by the time regionals rolled around, they were on fire!

The team pulled it off BIG.  Austin is 2nd from the right on the bottom row. While he didn't get to play, he was as happy as if he had just won the World Series!

He was one happy and dirty kid!

Is it a jump or a horse?

We went out to Metamora to school cross country with Holly and she introduced us to this jump.  From a distance, it's a log.  Up close......

She tells us this jump freaks out almost every horse as they get close to it. Mata Hari was certainly interested in this curious thing.  And she did refuse it the first time going to jump it.  Second time she cleared it with no issue.  Whew.