Weekend Warriors

This weekend has flown by--guess I've been too busy! Friday night we had supper with Kurt & Holly and visited for awhile. Saturday Holly put us to work again at the Abbey house. We finished painting Steve's bathroom and attempted to peel the wallpaper border off. Actually Holly did most of the trying. So we gave up on that idea and decided to just cover it with another border. Holly & I will go shopping for it next weekend when I go to Springfield. Then we went to the "dreaded" upstairs and tackled one of the bedrooms. One of Steve's nephews had been staying with them and left the room a total mess. Clothes, bedding, paper, etc.. everywhere. We filled the pickup with trash and hauled it off. So the next "project" will be to redo that bedroom. When we get it done it will be where Kurt & Holly stay when they come home for the weekends. Little by little we get more accomplished down there. What I will never get is why 4 people that don't own it and don't live in it, are always the 4 people down there doing the work. Doyle & I do it to help out Kurt & Holly (they are always doing something for us) and because we know if we don't help, no one else will. Also Brad spends a lot of time down on the Abbey farm hunting, fishing, and just wandering around. Don't get me wrong, we have roped others into it at different times, but usually if they know we are going to be there, they tend to have other things to do. Funny how that works!! And it's to the benefit of the ones living there that we get it done, but they don't always see it that way. I can relate somewhat, I was a teenager at one time, long ago, and I wouldn't want to spend my weekends cleaning, painting, etc... One of these days it will all be done and we can look back and say, we did a lot of that. I'm not much of a handy person so I have learned a lot from helping Holly down there. Before I met her, I had never even painted a single wall. Now I can paint, stain, etc.... Mostly I help clean. I will give the guys credit down there tho--it's a totally different place now from when we first started. They tend to keep it much cleaner since it we got rid of a lot of the clutter. So kudos to them!