Yes, another post where I complain about how tired/sore/achy I am. I’ll go through the highlights:

• Bought, installed and cleaned up all of the beadboard, baseboard, trim, and chair rail in the bathroom.
• Reinstalled the toilet for the final time.
• Mowed the entire lawn, trimmed it, fixed the trimmer. Broke the wheel on the mower.
• Trimmed the hedges up front. Trimmed the holly tree.
• Cut 3/4 of the dead cherry tree in the backyard down, using nothing but a hand saw. Smushed my foot under one of the larger branches. Hauled the debris to the driveway.
• Hosted friends for some hot dogs and baked beans in the backyard.
• Took my bride out for an anniversary dinner.

It really doesn’t sound like much, but my body is telling a different story. The bathroom is very, very close; there’s a lot of finish sanding to do, and then a final coat of gloss white paint on the trimwork will finish off the carpentry. The sink can go back in when that’s done, and we have paint candidates picked out for the walls. The den needs carpentry around the chimney and toe molding around the kickplates, but I’ve been having problems sourcing the toe molding this year. Then I think I’m going to move all the crap from my side of the front office into the den and re-apply polyurethane to the floor on that side in order to match up the old and new sides.

After the den is finished, I’m moving outside to tackle a bunch of exterior projects, the first of which will be the windows on the south and west sides of the house. The putty holding the panes is falling out in chunks and the planking needs desperately to be scraped and painted. So it’ll be lots of ladderwork for me this summer.