Slowly it goes...

More varnish, more green paint, more priming, more wainscoting, more wainscoting painted.  You've seen it all here before.  At least John installing the ceiling fan is a little bit different...

Toppings...

P1 - Sort your way through the clutter (will it never stop!?) and you'll see four stained boards leaning against the wall.  These frame the steps down to the sun room, see P3, that as of today has its wainscoting.  P2 is more of it going up.  P2 also shows another topping board that's been freshly rounded and sanded and cut to size from an old 12 inch plank in the barn.  (I admit I miss-measured the first go around but the second board we used was better than the first so I guess all that was lost was a little time.  Aren't retirees supposed to have lots of that?)  John informs me he's almost out of painted wainscoting so I guess its back to that little task soon...

A blue & white day...

P1 - Until today, the pantry had pretty much been unaffected.  But... the one last receptacle that needed installing could only be done by drilling through the bottom of the pantry cupboard.  At least that one section got cleaned before everything got put back.  P2 - the new white receptacle on a white wall.
P3 - Wainscoting being replaced in the kitchen.  P4 - And going up in the new room.  P5 - A fresh coat of paint on the white wall.
P6 - Check out Gus's back foot.  Does this kitty think he's for sale?

Reflections...

For lack of a better idea, we built a form and John poured a "new addition" to the old foundation that showed in the sunroom.   Somehow straight seemed more appealing that irregular stone work.   Now we let that sit for 48 hours.

P2 - Put on the second coat of sealer and it does shine.  May use the tiny bit we have left to touch up in places tomorrow.  It's a new day.  We'll see what strikes our fancy.

And, lest I forget, I primed a cazillion more feet of wainscoting guessing that someday soon we might be ready for it over the "reflecting pond".

A little of this, a little of that...

P1 - Up early, John put on the second coat of plaster to repair the kitchen side of things.
P2 - The plank that's destined to become our "desk".
P3 - Some of the window casings got primed.
P4 - Exposed... One last (I hope) repair job in the sunroom.
P5 - Upside down Bertha is sending Happy Birthday wishes to my mother who's 91 today.  Way to go Mother!!!
P6 - We applied the first coat of floor sealer on the concrete this morning.  The photo did weird things but it's actually looking pretty good.

It worked!!!!

This time around the stain "took".  Rinse...
Neutralize...
Rinse...
Rinse...
Dry...
Then wipe with a white rag (or in our case, a white cat).  If nothing comes off it's ready to seal.
Gus gave it a good kitty rub down and managed to stay white.  Bertha was calico on white to begin with so wasn't as good a tester but wanted to be involved.

In suspense...

The additional stain we needed for the concrete floor finally arrived.  This morning we were back at it again giving it one last chance.  (John did pick up floor paint samples just in case...)

We scrubbed, this time with a commercial scrubber (rather than using yours truly, the scrubber woman/photographer).
Rinsed.
Scrubbed.
Rinsed.
Scrubbed.
Rinsed.
And rinsed again.
Let dry.
Applied stain.

Will it "take" this time around?  Stay tuned...