House Painting Finished

Here is how the house looks today. The blue is a little darker than before and I think it came out very well. The painters did a good job and even did the little things - the details that are noticable to me but probably not noticable to passers by.

Now I have to think a bit about landscaping but maybe wait for a while because of the drought.

House work

Now I am catching up on all of the things I was going to do before surgery, and then some. First the plumbing was replaced. It started out as a $850 job and ended up at about $2,000. One thing and another. But at least it is all done and should last a while.

Then a smaller job - cutting down a lot of a huge tree in front of the house - $100 job.

Now I am in the middle of getting the house, painted including scraping, some stucco repair, some wood repair and primer - $3,000. Plus another $500 for some eave work. The house should look beautiful, though, and I will post pictures. I wanted to do this before the surgery but couldn't find anyone to do it. These guys work really hard and take a lot of pride in their work.

I am also working hard to get my department's Expo going again this year and more and more I think we will be successful.

A motto I put up at home and work when I was facing surgery was:

NEVER,

NEVER,

NEVER

GIVE UP.