Happy Thanksgiving!

Hopefully everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! Since we didn't have any of the kids from out of town and Darvin had to work graveyard shift we picked up Grandpa Clement around 4 p.m. and headed to Regional's cafeteria. When employees have to work on Thanksgiving or Christmas the hospital provides free dinner to them and their families. So that's what we did this year. They had a good selection of food, and I didn't have to cook OR clean...the best part!!

Darvin slept a good portion of the day trying to prepare to stay up all night for the graveyard shift. Consequently I painted and painted. When all was said and done today I got 23 cupboard doors painted with 2 coats of primer on one side and all of the kitchen, dining room and hall drawers. I also did a little touching up to the primer on the living room door.

Got the 2nd coats done after doing a little Thanksgiving day (pre-black Friday) shopping at Walmart. I've got a few more things on my shopping list, so may head out after a while to do the legitimate black Friday shopping. I sure miss having the girls here this year, it's a lot funner to do the black Friday shopping when we can go together.

I'm happy with today's progress on the painting. You can see in the picture I put one of the new drawer pulls on just so I could get a feel for how they'll look. Did I mention that I LOVE Penetrol? It's designed to be added to oil based paints to eliminate brush and roller marks. It works so well! I start by rolling the Kilz oil-based primer on the door, then use the brush to smooth it. I didn't mind the roller marks on the regular doors in the house, but really wanted a smooth finish for the cupboards. It's working well, rolling the primer on saves time and then it takes just a few quick brush strokes to smooth it. Tomorrow I'll turn the cupboard doors over and put primer on the insides and hopefully get the cupboards themselves painted with primer. I hope to do the actual painting on Saturday. It will sure be nice to be done with painting and on to the next project!