The Basement

Well, I just finished putting the molding up along the wall and the floor. We are doing a two-tone paint job with green above and white below with white molding running horizontal through the middle of the wall. This was Leslie's b-day present and I'm almost done. She was pretty tired tonight, but I'm sure she is loving that it is coming together.

Tomorrow night I will finish caulking the cracks and nails and will hopefully be able to paint before Thursday, which is when the family is coming over for a BBQ. I'd love to have it done for everyone to see, even though the walls are all still naked and our furniture is, well, non-existent or terribly unwanted and unattractive.

This should definitely help the resale of our house though one day and soon Aubrey will have a place to play downstairs. Maybe if we're still here in a couple of years we could frame off a section of the basement and create another bedroom, but we'll see.

Personally I would love to be working outside and putting a roof on our awning and tile the concrete of our porch, but I know how much Leslie wants this basement to be done, so I'm gonna push through and finish it. I'll post pics as soon as I get some put together.

Oh, and we now have cable... yikes! I don't know if I should be happy now or not. This means I can watch all the sports I want, i.e. ESPN... and I don't think that's a good thing. Oh well, we are getting it cheap for the first six months and I definitely plan on canceling after that. Leslie wanted the cable so that I could watch the games at home instead of at friend's or family houses. But, I'm pretty sure she pushed to get it for her TLC fix. :)