This weekend marked two weeks since move-in day, and the painting continues. I had to go into work on Saturday, and was very pleasantly surprised when I got home afterward to find a beautiful harvest brown wall in the stairwell going up to our second floor! We hadn't been sure how we were going to reach that high over the stairs, but our friend Brian, from Atlanta, Julie, and Loren found a creative way to make it work.

While the painting crew finished work on the stairs, I spent time outside, clearing out our sad-looking flowerbeds along the driveway.

Before- Flowerbeds

After- Flowerbeds

In the bed I cleaned out behind the deck, I planted some fun zinnias that we picked out at the farmer's market Saturday morning.

 The garden is growing--even though nothing is producing yet, nothing has actually died!

In addition, Loren and I are continuing to organize and get things put in their place.

This afternoon we put up our new modular bar and finished touching up trim on the stairway. We also made a trip out to Sherwin-Williams to buy paint for the garage, which we decided we could paint ourselves.