 
 
 
 
Russ HATES to paint. There is no worse thing to ask him…”Honey………….could you just cut out the ceiling atop the ladder because it’s too tall for me to reach??? Honey?” The man is GONE! He will gladly spend 4 hours removing the baseboards and taping off all the woodwork he has not removed, but ask him to paint anything with a brush, I better just talk to the wall, better yet, paint that wall while I’m waiting.
We are not just snowed in, we are iced in….a winter to set ALL records. He has completed all his projects…the shop is too cold to hide in, he finished his book, all his current magazines, VACUUMED his workshop……..arranged ALL the nuts and bolts and screws….twice….and there is nothing to do. He has shopped for everything he needs for the whole year, he has listened to all his golf videos, and now he’s starting to plan meals..…..for me to cook. Out of desperation the other day, I sent him to the post office with a package for my friend, Thelma, just so he’d have something to do. I figured that the ice storm would just give him a little extra time to be busy…….I no sooner asked him and he was out the door, a happy man with something to do…….
“Is there something I could paint?”
I was not prepared for that one! OMG….what has happened to my husband? Hell must have frozen over for sure. After my heart beat got back on track and the blood pressure back to normal I told him, “no, honey, there’s nothing to do, and it’s too cold to spray paint in the garage.” He disappeared. He went to LOWE’S…twice…….I had to play my Sirius music to offset the hammering, sawing and air compressor sanding going on in the basement….and the totally out of character vacuuming afterwards.
“What color do you want me to paint these lazy Susan boards I built for YOU?
12 inches of snow is in the forecast for tomorrow, followed by a winter storm Saturday.
