Errands and Painting the Garage Before Winter

Meadow and I had a million errands to run on this day.

Scott needed trim paint for the garage. Good thing we get the contractor discount at Sherwin Williams.

Cause they're super expensive. But are their paints really that much better?

Meadow looked at coats at Goodwill. She didn't like that the sleeves were short on this coat.

Agreed.

I love that Goodwill has EV chargers. It seems that no one knows that they are there.

We stopped at REI and I liked this 20 degree bag. I don't believe the temperature ratings on these. This is probably good to 40 or 30 degrees.

AKA Brooke has major blood circulation issues.

Theo spent the morning playing the Switch, of course.

Once he was done gaming, Theo joined us in helping to paint the garage.

Scott had all the green done so it was my turn to paint the trim.

Don't let them fool you. I painted the rest of the trim. But I suppose the one day they helped sped things up a bit.

Break for lunch.

The rest of the garage trim would have to wait.

We put Meadow to work making zucchini brownies.

We were all pretty tired from a day of painting.

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