Day Seven

Details, details, details! I’m ready to be finished with the details!

The new room seems soooooo cloooose to being finished.

I didn’t work on it yesterday. I needed a break.

Today when I woke up I just KNEW that with a little elbow grease and some bribery for my 18 year old son I could get it finished.

But NOOOOO. There are so many teeny-tiny, miniscule, seems-like-they-don’t-matter-but-they-do type of things that I didn’t make it. I am STILL not finished.

Before you start to throw tomatoes at me and boo and hiss and declare me a failure, never to read my blog again….let me remind you:

This is an 85 year old house and there is nothing straight, even or level about it. Every miter cut is different. You can’t nail or screw into the walls. I have so much liquid nail residue stuck to the tips of my fingers that I may never be able to do needlework again.

My sweet husband and son must have started to feel sorry for me. The crying may have helped. It’s sad, but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.

The two of them offered to finish putting up the exterior siding (don’t forget, we have to finish the exterior porch section as well as the inside) for me. So today they finished that and tomorrow the girls and I will paint it. Then we’ll trim the new window and paint the trim.

I am so close I can taste it.

But I can’t lick the taste of victory off of my fingers or I just might liquid nail my tongue to the roof of my mouth.

Pictures by Saturday….I promise!