Painting 1st Floor for Spring Break

The weather was really wet for the month of March and it’s still raining. Today is April 1st and GW has started painting the family room. I can’t believe we are almost finished painting our HOUSE! We began our project almost two years ago and just painted on Saturday’s and holidays. 

GW did hurt his back about 17 months ago after lifting too many five gallon buckets full of paint. He had to take off six months of no lifting.  He was in so much pain he couldn’t sleep very well. Thanks to the Sheffield family and their magic little flower pills. The pill relaxed the nerves in his back so he could function and relax. Now GW just lifts one five gallon bucket of paint. I still can’t believe how nice our home looks, it feels like we moved to a brand new place!

March 2, 2024

 Wow, it's almost been eight months since I posted.  Wild update: Julie and Coleton planned another  Japan trip and they just got back last Tuesday night. This time they spent most of their ten days in northern Japan near Jenny and JJ's home in Misawa.  

It makes my heart happy when my adult children plan trips together. Even if it's on the other side of the world.

One of the reasons why I haven't been  writing is because last summer GW was feeling good enough to start painting the inside of our house again, so all we’ve been doing is painting, painting and painting. GW has been doing most of the labor, I’m just prep help, clean and grab tools. Since we still have day jobs we have only been able to work on the house most Saturday's and some holidays. I'm happy to report that we are getting close to being 3/4 of the way through. The hardest part was finished today being the living room, kitchen and entry way. 

Happenings and events that took place in the last eight months.

Lots of Four Wheeling

JJ's sisters wedding

My new car!

Beautiful Fall 2023

Four wheeling with Mark and Denise Rawl

Family Reunion Alpine Wyoming

Lunch with Mike Carson our favorite piano teacher!

Day Six and the Other Half of Our Japan Trip

 After leaving our Airbnb in Osaka, Japan provides a great luggage service where you can take your carry on luggage to an office near the train station or a 7 Eleven store. We all payed $10.00 each and the luggage company shipped our things to the next Airbnb in Tokyo. All there was to carry for the rest of the day was our individual backpacks.We also had a nice breakfast with Jenny and JJ’s neighbors from Misawa who were visiting relatives in Osaka.

Amanda & Adam

 Off  to Shinkansen, Japan’s fastest train for around $70.00  to Tokyo. 

The train was pretty quiet even though we were going really fast. Right before we boarded the train Shinkansen station sells really cute box lunches that we were able to eat on our three hour trip. I did see Mt. Fuji outside my window but it was just the shadow of it since the sun was setting behind the mountain. It was still very BIG. We finally arrived in Tokyo at night and found our new Airbnb which was smaller and older but still comfortable. My favorite was having two kitchens!

Tokyo Japan

Ghibli Museum

Shibuya Square and yummy curry food!

Hakone Japan

Disney Sea World

teamLab Planets

Nara, Day Five

 Visiting Nara Japan was the hottest day out of the two weeks we toured Japan. Nara had lots of trees so the shade was nice especially when a breeze would pick up. 

 

 

Kyoto, Day Four

 This particular day we visited the Golden Temple, Kinkkaku-ji known as the golden Pavilion.

Bamboo Forest