{"id":31,"date":"2002-09-06T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2002-09-06T00:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2002-09-06T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2002-09-06T00:25:40","slug":"labor-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Labor Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a busy, busy labor day weekend. The wife finally talked me into
\ncompleting a
\nhouse project<\/a>
\nwe started quite a while ago. For those that don’t rememeber,
\nthe project in question was brought about by a small scale war inside of our
\ncloset – a war that neither the wife or I witnessed first hand. Our lack of
\nattendance, however, didn’t free us from the job of cleaning up the aftermath.<\/p>\n

As a result, the closet enjoyed a nice demolition and rebuilding project
\nmore than a month ago. Unfortunately (or fortunately, if you ask the wife), the
\ncloset renovations meant that, all of a sudden, the colors of our bedroom
\nwalls didn’t match our closet at all. The closet was now a nice mixture
\nof burgandy red and light grey which, not by accident, matched the
\nbedroom comforter perfectly. The bedroom itself, however, was a
\nbeautiful shade dingy yellow.<\/p>\n

Actually, it was the dingy yellow from hell. You might think that hell is painted
\nwith a red brush but my personal hell is probably painted with antique white, the
\nslightly off-white of the ages.
\nSomebody, somewhere probably dropped some yellow paint into a vat of white and said, “Wow, perfect.” After all, who doesn’t want walls that look like a mix
\nof dried parchment and the hair of a ninety year old ex-blonde who hasn’t
\nquite lost that yellow tinge. We could have pasted the original copy
\nof the
\nConstitution<\/a>
\non the wall and not have been able to tell where it ends and the wall began.<\/p>\n

Apparently, antique white was once popular, particularly with the older
\ncrowd. Since we bought the house from a little old lady, I suppose it’s
\nno surprise that the house was covered with the stuff. That and the
\nobligatory “old person” smell just came with the territory.
\nI still have nightmares of trying to rid the house of that stink. I had
\nalways assumed that smell came from a nasty concoction of Ben-Gay.
\nIn this case, it turned out to be mothballs – mounds and mounds of mothballs.
\nI found them everywhere. Closets, cabinets, the crawl space – no place was
\nsafe from the mothball infection. I found them for months after we purchased the house. But I digress…<\/p>\n

Here’s a tip for would-be painters. Never — I repeat, never —
\npaint a room two different colors. It’s simple multiplication.
\nTwo colors means double the taping, double the painting,
\nand double the waiting. I suppose,
\nif you get technical, the physical area doesn’t change (not that I wouldn’t
\nhave sworn it did over the weekend), but where you would normally put two
\ncoats of paint, you now have four. Waiting for four separate coats of
\npaint to dry is as exciting as it sounds. It made for a long weekend where I
\ncan’t actually say I worked hard<\/i>, I just worked over and over again.<\/p>\n

When it was all complete, the wife and I congratulated ourselves on a job well
\ndone. The room now looks worthy to be our nightly resting place,
\nmaking the end result worth the toil. Now its
\non to the baby’s room. I wonder how long I can put that one off
\n(hint – I bet it won’t be more than 4 months).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a busy, busy labor day weekend. The wife finally talked me into completing a house project we started quite a while ago. For those that don’t rememeber, the project in question was brought about by a small scale war inside of our closet – a war that neither the wife or I witnessed first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}