The Best Laid Plans

This week is spring break for the kiddos and they're off at Disney with the grandparents so it's a spring break for us too.  We planned a week of sleeping through the night, sleeping in on weekends and spending our nights and weekends getting to all those things we don't normally have time to do such as sanding and painting the front door trim which is sorely in need of it.

The paint is peeling and we have these funky black spots all around the trim.  The manager at our local Duron paint store said that these spots are from the trees around the doorway.  We have to sand them all off, prime, and paint.  We left Duron armed with all the necessary supplies to tackle this project.  Since we were at Duron, we even bought the paintbrush Sherry at YHL recommended.  They actually didn't have the exact model brush (it was sold out), but the manager assured us that this is the same brush but nicer.  It also wasn't $5 (more like $14!).  I hope it's as good as it's supposed to be.

Mother Nature seems to have a different plan for us:

We're having a week of rain!  The only day it's not supposed to rain, we both have plans for that evening.  All this rain is great for the flowers but not so great for our plans to paint the house exterior. 

We really want to get the door painted before it gets too hot.  Washington summers can be miserably hot.  There might be a small window Sunday morning that we can try to squeeze in this project.  I'm crossing my fingers :-)