Week 44 - Oregon City, Oregon - October 31 - November 6, 2022

Monday was the "real" Halloween, and the weather did not disappoint -  there was torrential rain in the evening.....at least Trunk or Treat from last week was rainless.  We only had one group of Trick or Treaters visit our house.

Paul did not disappoint!

I have enjoyed helping Jude practice every morning.  Of course, I can barely play the piano myself, but I do know how to practice.

I continued to work on the basement painting activity.  Here is a photo showing the color of the paint which was here in 1977 when we moved in.  With my knife I carved off a small piece of molding at took it to Miller paint to have it color matched.  Took about two hours for the whole process as the employee added just one drop of color at a time.  I paid over $21 for just a quart.

The night before I had painted one coat of white primer on the spot.

After getting the new paint.....which I thought was yellow....but it looks beige-ish in the can, and the paint store named it Gray Tan...I painted the area.  When it dried.....I discovered that the two coats of paint were too thick and the door would, once again, not open the whole way.  So, now I am waiting for Malcolm to find the time to hold the sander over his head and grind away a sixteenth of an inch of paint and wood..

Then I focused my energy to the windows on the south side of the basement.  I needed to fill in the holes made by the counter sunk nails used to install each window.  I had to remove the shelving before starting the time consuming job - it took me about 2-3 hours.

My goal for the next week is to reorganize all of the stuff that was on the shelves, throw a lot out, take stuff to the DI, remove and burn two flimsy white particle board cupboards, and start over again.  who knows, we may even be able to use the pool table as a pool table rather than only as a project table.

And here is an amazing 10- volume set of a 1937 Oxford Dictionary.  I am intending to sell it and become momentarily rich.

Periodically, Holland finds something she wants to buy....usually a the Dollar Twenty-five store or Fred Meyer.  Warren and Holland try to find a job she can do to make money.  On Saturday she came to the Manor and, with Warren, helped trim hydrangea bushes.