Fallon to Ukiah 11-20-07

We have been really busy since I last blogged. We left Quincy and went to Fallon for a week. We are done being landlords and the housing market is really down there so we are going to take some time over the next several months getting the house we own there ready for the market when things heat up again. There is quite a lot of landscaping to get done so a few times a year we’ll work on it in between traveling.

This past week we painted the kitchen and living room after patching the multitudinous holes all over the place. I picked a lovely “muted gold” color and after painting for two days the results were disappointing. The color was lovely but not what we wanted. It turned out to look more like pumpkin orange than gold and too dark and the light changes so much with the angles in the room…hideous. Two whole days of hard work…wasted. The color on the chip did not look the same at all on the walls! I had given 5 of the doors two coats of the lovely color…ahk! We tried to think of ways to make the color work because neither one of us wanted to repaint, but we decided we had to for resale. We went with a nice safe neutral, creamy tan with cottage white trim. We painted the teeny laundry room an eye popping fresh Citron Green.

The carpets had been cleaned and we had a no pet clause, but as often happens a contract doesn’t mean much to some people and the carpet reeks in several spots, so that will be next…getting the carpet replaced.

We are pooped after over 6 days of prepping and painting and cleaning and we still have 5 more rooms to do.

Today we drove the 340 miles from Fallon to Ukiah. It was a beautiful drive over the Sierras and we hadn’t been on that part of Highway 80 in 20 years or so. The slow lane had such deep ruts from the big rigs and was sooo bumpy we felt like the fillings in our teeth were going to rattle out. I was crocheting and kept dropping loops and then trying to pick them up was entertaining! It was very cold and foggy going over the top.

We are here for two weeks for Thanksgiving with Andrea’s family and for Ian’s early birthday party.