November 17th, 2012

It was another long week of painting Christmas gift commissions. More of the same next week, too. I'm taking the weekend off to do some cleaning here at the house and do more packing of the smaller things we need to take over to the new house sometime again next week. The kitchen is finished, finally, and we just need to put on baseboards and trim in some of the rooms. Two french doors will be installed next week, and we have to get a new tub in the master bedroom and do the wood flooring in there and everything will be complete. We should be done in a couple of more weeks and we can start moving some of the larger furniture over. We are DIY people, and have done 90 percent of the work ourselves and really enjoy doing it. There is a great satisfaction of bringing an older home up-to-date with some TLC.

We also found out that I won't be able to have the same internet service at the new house. We are on Wydebeam and they don't have service out there, so I will have to go with either Hughes or Wild Blue. Blah! We had Wild Blue a couple of years ago and I really wasn't happy with the service and the limited hours that I could be on. So, I'll do more research on Hughes to see if they will provide better service. I guess that's what we will have to sacrifice moving so far out in the desert. At least I can still have the internet, thank goodness!

It's another beautiful day in Arizona. The temp is going to be around 78 degrees today. Sorry I haven't been on, but I'm just so busy and Christmas is just around the corner and I still have a lot of Christmas gift rocks to paint.