Once again I worked an early shift at the BBY. I was half-way done with work by the time Brooke had breakfast.   I was sick of eating boring old oatmeal alone. I want my Sunday Funday's back! So I made myself BIG pancake.  I can't believe she made this without me.   Yesterday we got our first snow of the season.  Luckily it only snowed a couple inches so shoveling was quick.  Earlier this week Scott tore off all the wallpaper in the upstairs bathroom.  Then he got rid of the wallpaper residue in the breakfast nook.  Then he spackled all the random gaps and sanded it all smooth.   This is the wallpaper that was there before we took it down long ago. I taped down the plastic to get ready for painting. On one wall it appears there was something here before they wallpapered in the 70's. I'm guessing a phone? Peanut made sure I did a good job. I came home to Brooke painti...

Scott worked his morning shift. Again (grr). I have breakfast alone. Again. If this keeps up I may need to start a side blog about cleaning, because today I did just that.  I started with cleaning out our built-in bench storage. When Scott brought back a bunch of things from his parents/grandparents this summer he took with him these giant *** speakers. Not only are they huge they take over the bench not allowing easy access to the storage units. They're awesome, but I might get rid of them soon. Pretty clever craftsmanship they had back then.  It turns out nothing was in this one. Hmm now that I'm thinking about it this would be a good place to keep all my yarn. The other one had some cords and Peanut.    I also found more blankets and flue cleaner.  We wanted to use this to clean the chimney, but it's probably best that we hire a professional. Since that went quickly I decided to tackle our breakfast nook stor...