Tiny red leaves

We think we have the attic floor just about done. Today I'll take a brief break to do some yard work while Ken works on the edges of the floor. Then on Wednesday we're having people over for lunch (the same people we met last week in Valençay) and on Sunday friends from California are arriving for four days.

Tiny red leaves growing close to the ground in the vineyard.

In between we need to tidy up a bit and move some furniture so we can set the guest room up. These are all incremental steps on the way to finishing the attic and moving in. The next big job up there will be prepping the walls for paint. A little sanding needs to be done first, along with a little patching and smoothing of plaster in places. Then the primer will go on.

We got a good deal on primer for drywall at the hardware store last week. After that we will have to pick a color and find the paint. We'll likely go for an off-the-shelf off-white/beige. No custom mixing, just something easy and economical. We're going to need a lot of it.