Paint The Lodge

Oh-oh...things are not going good here at Silverhorn Lodge....the Wife is on a painting kick....and you know what that means...she is getting the gear ready to start a 'paint the lodge' marathon. Guys you know what I am talking about, your wife gets in her head that something needs doing, then says she is going to do it. However, you also know that no matter what she says, somehow you are going to be involved in the program. It might only be as helper, but you are going to be involved. So forget about Sunday afternoon on the couch, it isn't happening...the best you can hope for is to go to work tomorrow to get some rest....

The Wife has decided the kitchen needs 'freshing up' as she calls it, which to me means stick a few flowers in a vase on the table. Apparently it means more than that...I offered to go buy a nice floral arrangement, but instead she said, "I think a light blue would be nice, with a darker trim." Uh-oh...I knew she wasn't describing flowers....

This morning she caught me off guard, I thought she was upstairs sleeping, but instead she was upstairs getting her painting supplies in order. I knew this was going to be bad when she showed me some paint color samples but I thought I was in the clear, by saying I didn't like any of them, hoping she would take longer to decide. But as I have since found out, she doesn't really care what I think anyway....she was just being 'polite' by asking my opinion. She had already made up her mind....

I knew things were heating up when she purchased a couple of gallons of paint at Walmart the night before last, but I thought it would take a little longer, at least time for me to injure my back or leg or arm or something to get out of the action so to speak. Yesterday I even worked on one of the Lodge vehicles, that is usually good for a cut hand or a missing finger or something, but nope, I survived in fine shape....Good enough shape that today she had me take all the cupboard doors off.

I tried to get out of that by saying I didn't have the right size screwdriver for the hinges, but she said, "No problem, I bought you one yesterday." She handed me a new screwdriver with several interchangable heads saying, "I'm sure one of those fits...."