Painting

Wm has been delivered to Grandma and Grandpa's house! I can always tell when he's having fun because he never replies to my texts. Here is the whole gang lounging in Uncle Mike's pool:

My friend Melanie made me laugh really hard because she said Wm has Phil Collins hair in that picture. Gold!!

Wm had the right idea. He left town. Because our house is chaos and smelly and covered in plastic sheeting. The painters have descended and will be here all week. They are using oil-based super crazy paint on the wood trim that we want white. Which will be durable...but REEKS. All our furniture is piled in the center of every room and covered in plastic. It's basically a nightmare. Steve isn't handling it well AT ALL. I suggested he go and join Wm (mostly to get him out of my hair), but he can't take the time off work. So I'm stuck with him.

Poor Flip is also sad about events. I thought it would be fun to bring him to work with me yesterday so he wouldn't get into the paint and/or bug the painters. It started out well enough:

Snoozing under my desk

But things quickly soured. He growled and buffed every time someone walked down the hallway. He barked insanely whenever someone knocked on my door. He had multiple visitors and he was his normal charming self. But, not all of them enjoyed having their armpits licked and being jumped on by a maniac. By the end of the day, he was exhausted and REALLY ready to go home:

SO SLEEPY and quite sad about it

Today, he is at doggie day care. Then, the rest of the week, we are hoping he will be so worn out, he will snooze in his crate in whichever room they are not working in that day. Fingers crossed!!

I'm sure it will all be worth it in the end, but this week is kind of crazy! And, Wm gets to return to a freshly painted house...and other surprises! We got him cool "celestial" wallpaper that I am going to put on his closet door. Also planned: faux shiplap on his den closet doors, new curtains in the den, new light switches in his room, and new blinds in his room. So, when Wm returns, all "his" spaces will be new and improved!! Hopefully he likes it!