Good morning. Watch says 33F. Probably a degree or two colder where I'm at. Some days it gets down to freezing over night and other days its in the 40s over night.
Easter was overcast and drizzly. We had a nice, mostly music based, service at church. I tried to take a nap afterwards, but as I drifted off my mom called to arrange the time for us to come and after that I couldn't fall back asleep. So I got up, ate some nuts and blueberries and soem chocolate for lunch and listened/watched a podcast with the wife. Our usual Sunday afternoon activity.
We went to my mom's. Smallest group I remember having for Easter in a while. With my son gone (currently temporarily in Portland OR while he awaits his visa for Japan), it was just me, the wife, daughter, and my mom. My niece, who lives with my mom, was at work at the care center, and my other niece, who is temporarily living in the area while she does a short stint on an intern program [she is becoming a physical therapist] got some free ski passes and was not there. Some times my mom invites one of her brothers, and sometimes one or two other siblings and their spouses and sometimes some of their (siblings) kids and stuff to these holiday activities. We had a nice meal with ham, "funeral potatoes", various vegetables, etc. And banana splits for desert. Didn't help with the diet. The potatoes were the best part with the ice cream a close second. Not doing my health and weight efforts any favors.
House wise we've been painting as I can get to it. Most days an hour or two or three after the day job. We're mostly done. A small section in the big vaulted room (over the stairs) plus a small bit in the master bath. some walk in closets (where I'm waiting to see how how much of the different paints we have left to see which ones to use), and the secondary bathroom (non master bathroom). And my daughter's room. I'm paying a painter to paint my daughter's rom. The ceiling is between 20 and 22 feet high and I don't want to get up on a scaffold. The ceiling is already painted and the room primed. My wife has a friend at work whose husband is a commercial painter and he said he'd do it for $500 with my paint. DEAL.
Saturday I cut in the wall/ceiling line in all the upstairs bonus rooms. Just the outside wall part of the bonus space and the downstairs bedrooms left to cut in.
I paid an expensive electrician a week ago to hook up the car charger, cooktop, cut in the wiring for the ovens, and anything else that is greater than 120V. So the cooktop is working and I boiled the first water. The induction on plower boostw as fast for a small saucepan of water, A lot faster than our current resistive heat electric stove.
I have a friend's son who is an apprentice electrician coming to help do a few things like cut in wall sconce boxes and since he is not charging a lot probably help me hook up switches and outlets. Stuff I could do but he saves me time for not a lot of money. It's one of those cash at the end of the day deals and technically "my work".
My nephew-in-law is coming down for a few days supposedly and I'm going to get him to do the minimal amount of tile we have in the wet room "japanese bath" and help with leveling (with self-leveling compound) the gypcrete where it isn't level due to small leaks when they poured it and a couple cabinets and stuff. Try to get a ton of stuff done so I can start with the LVP flooring. He is a small time contractor up in Wyoming and was going to come down a couple weeks ago but the U-joint on one of his trucks blew out on the interstate when one of his guys was driving it so he couldn't comes down as he had to take his guys to the job their working on as well as get the part and fix it. he has done a lot of stuff over the past 2 years, now and then. He doesn't get a lot of chance to come down but was down in the first half of February when we started painting.
Enough rambling. Two days of sun and the rest rain is the forecast this week, high 50s and low 60s most days. Maybe a day or two of high 40s.
Here is from the train room bonus room above the garage where my mom and daughter painted the lower walls last week and I did the uipper parts and did the wall/ceiling edge in...