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3 years ago

Spectrum working on it. I have nothing to do lol. I am on my phone now, which is annoying trying to type on this little keyboard. I watered my overwintered pepper and eggplants, put my one sweet potato saved from my garden last year in potting soil to sprout slips....changed into my painting clothes. I don't want to paint, though. I hate painting.
Workers came to fix the last of the drywall under the sink in the newly renovated bathroom that had to be cut out because the plumbers measured wrong.
I want my bedroom back so I suppose I should go paint. Have one of my old exchange students coming in a couple weeks for a visit so that is a little motivation to get it done and everything back in place.

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3 years ago

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Kathleen Smith
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3 years ago
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foodonastump
3 years ago
Oooh new bathroom - nice!!!
Kathleen Smith thanked foodonastump
morz8 - Washington Coast
3 years ago
Your bathroom looks great. I hope you're pleased with it for many years. And congratulations on surviving the mess and interruption while it took place ;)

I've got a little painting to do myself. I'm pretty good at it, always having done my own. I don't enjoy it as much as I used to and stall.

My project - when I've finished tax prep and done some decluttering - was going to be inside closets first. I thought if bright and freshly painted, I'd be a lot less likely to put unneeded things back into them ;)

And I hate internet issues, thankfully have few with the too expensive now Comcast. I've never signed in here with my phone, not ever.
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sephia_wa
3 years ago
Pretty bathroom! I love the light around the mirror.
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User
3 years ago
I love the bold lines of black in your bathroom. Nice color on the walls, too!
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Kathleen Smith
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3 years ago
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Sephia I wanted something that reminded me of being on vacation. Even the small hotels seem to have those mirrors.

I really hate this keyboard can't do punctuation . Deletes everything I type when I space grrrr. I was going to do a sage green except the colors lookedlooked so depressing
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3 years ago
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I used that same vanity in one of my remodels! So you know "I" like it! Good job on picking colors Kath!
Kathsgrdn
3 years ago
Nicole, they're really close but mine doesn't have legs.
Kathleen Smith
Original Author
3 years ago
I still have to clean the dust and remaining
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3 years ago
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Yours has a toe kick....I see. Nice! Yours is very pretty! I remember when you were shopping for real wood vanities.
HU-787167202
3 years ago
🤍🤍🤍
foodonastump
3 years ago
Gotta say, up until this point I questioned whether HU-787167202 and arcy were really one and the same, but with them both bumping threads with emojis this morning I guess so! What's up with that?
Kathsgrdn
3 years ago
Weird foodonastump, I never noticed.
foodonastump
3 years ago
I might actually have the wrong HU, these emojis actually make sense if they liked something. Arcy's didn't. Whatever. Apologies to HU202 if I got this wrong!

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