Stalling
It's been a couple weeks since I boldly pronounced the undertaking of a couple new projects here on the blog. Regardless - they're not finished.
To be fair, the fleur-de-lis-as-wall-damage-camouflage project is complete in the foyer. This does not constitute cause to celebrate, however, considering that project took about 20 minutes of my time.
In the meantime - the column project is at least more underway than the last time I mentioned it. The columns on the front porch are now trimmed and the trim is filled and caulked and ready. There is still caulking and sanding to be done before they're ready for primer - and hopefully that's a project I'll take on this afternoon once I am motivated by telling the world it needs to be done.
It's not laziness that slows us down, to be sure. It's a combination of having too many irons in the fire and running into the usual roadblocks. One example of such a roadblock would be yellow jackets. Yes. I don't like those. It's that time of year when those little buggers are particularly grumpy and - did I mention this? - I don't like them much. I was motivated sometime last week to trim our front hedges.. until a yellow jacket took offense at my waving electric hedgetrimmers around his house... I dropped the hedgetrimmers where I stood. They stayed in that spot on the lawn for a good three days before I had the nerve to retrieve them. Needless to say -- the hedges aren't finished either.
Another roadblock to progress would definitely be my tendency to start totally unrelated projects before I ever finish a project we're supposed to be working on. This time I was distracted by the need (no - really - it was a need) to do something dramatic to our plain yellow kitchen walls.
It took an afternoon to create a Gold Leaf feature wall in the eat-in area of the kitchen.
Unfortunately - this project is also technically unfinished as I intend to do the same thing to the north kitchen wall when the mood strikes me. At least this one looks finished in the meantime.
To be fair, the fleur-de-lis-as-wall-damage-camouflage project is complete in the foyer. This does not constitute cause to celebrate, however, considering that project took about 20 minutes of my time.
In the meantime - the column project is at least more underway than the last time I mentioned it. The columns on the front porch are now trimmed and the trim is filled and caulked and ready. There is still caulking and sanding to be done before they're ready for primer - and hopefully that's a project I'll take on this afternoon once I am motivated by telling the world it needs to be done.
It's not laziness that slows us down, to be sure. It's a combination of having too many irons in the fire and running into the usual roadblocks. One example of such a roadblock would be yellow jackets. Yes. I don't like those. It's that time of year when those little buggers are particularly grumpy and - did I mention this? - I don't like them much. I was motivated sometime last week to trim our front hedges.. until a yellow jacket took offense at my waving electric hedgetrimmers around his house... I dropped the hedgetrimmers where I stood. They stayed in that spot on the lawn for a good three days before I had the nerve to retrieve them. Needless to say -- the hedges aren't finished either.
Another roadblock to progress would definitely be my tendency to start totally unrelated projects before I ever finish a project we're supposed to be working on. This time I was distracted by the need (no - really - it was a need) to do something dramatic to our plain yellow kitchen walls.
It took an afternoon to create a Gold Leaf feature wall in the eat-in area of the kitchen.
Unfortunately - this project is also technically unfinished as I intend to do the same thing to the north kitchen wall when the mood strikes me. At least this one looks finished in the meantime.
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