Dragon Daughter

Redecorating

Following on from the previous blog entry, we have since completed a number of steps toward our goal.


Wednesday

My Darling's father came round and 'over helped'. She asked him how to tie up a mattress. He arrived and restrained both of the old mattresses, forcing us to set up the guest bedroom two days early.

We also dismantled the old wardrobe - taking care to pull out all the metal and plastic elements separately as far as we could.


Friday

We loaded up the car with the wardrobe and squeezed both mattresses in too.


Saturday

This is where we really hit out stride. We drove to the dump first thing and disposed of the mattresses. The wood went into the timber recycling and the metal pieces into the metal recycling. Our local dump has a 99.8% recycling rate.

We then did the grocery shopping and snuck in a McDonalds breakfast. Then it was off to the hardware store to buy a new door handle for the living room. After that we walked the neighbour's dog and headed back out to the decorating store down the road to get paint.

But we weren't done there We then took the bed frame apart. Assembled, it takes up most of the room, so we have to take it down to do any painting.

We also set up the xbox, which has been in storage under the bed, so I could move my save data from the cloud onto the hard drive and then cancel my xbox live gold subscriptions (which I haven't used in well over a year ^^;).

The last job of the day was to sit down and play with the shredder. My mum's going through some old ancient filing that hasn't been checked in about a decade to throw out documents she no longer needs. Like the road tax for a car she sold at least eight years ago.

And then I made a delicious salad for dinner.


Sunday (today)

We started off putting the drill on to charge the battery and walking the neighbour's dog again.

Since getting back, we (My Darling) changed the living room door handle. We can finally close the door again without getting trapped . She also took the bedroom light shade down so it doesn't get covered in paint when we take on the ceiling.

We've taken down the curtains from the bedroom so we can wash them and the curtain pole so it down's get covered in paint.

We've handed mum's filing box back to her to go through the next batch of papers.

Plan is to get the first coat of damp seal on the wall where the wardrobe used to be, since that seems to be a bad spot for condensation; and for me to try to catch up with the WDC activities I've fallen away from.


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entry 4 of 10 for The Bard's Hall Contest  June 2022