I hope that your Thanksgiving was one filled with reasons to feel grateful — and that nobody tossed the green bean casserole at someone with a different political point of view.
Dear Husband and I spent Thanksgiving here at home demonstrating our flexibility and creativity. For example, we found the mixer but not the mixing bowl. Undaunted, I attempted to make mashed potatoes by holding a small bowl of hot potatoes under the single large beater, which I somehow also found in one of the many boxes taking up space in our house.
While it is true that potatoes flew through the air, hitting me and the wall, it is also true that some of them managed to stay in the bowl, creating a lumpy dish that did have some resemblance to mashed potatoes. #win
I do not eat meat and so it was largely an improvised and plant-based affair but it worked. Somehow.
There is some progress on the kitchen and dining room. For example, the living room is painted!
How is that progress on the kitchen, you wonder?
Well, it goes like this — if we are painting the kitchen and dining room we need to paint the living room as well since it all flows together.
And if we are painting the living room, the wainscoting needs to come off since we took it off in the kitchen/dining area due to water damage and decided not to replace it — and if the wainscoting is coming off in the kitchen, dining area, and living room then certainly we need to take it off in the hall and paint that as well.
Basically, Remodel Creep is real — but since progress anyplace is progress on the whole, painting the living room is progress on the kitchen! Yippee for progress!
The other place that Remodel Creep is occurring is the flooring. We cannot replace the floor in the kitchen, dining area, entry, and hallway and not replace the living room carpet! (Thank Goodness).
BUT we cannot do the flooring until the cabinets go in and they are currently being made someplace and might be here in January.
Did I mention that the two zone heaters in the kitchen/dining area were water damaged and so we have no heat in those areas? No worries — it is only Montana in the winter!
Good thing I love adventures!