DIY and Other Adventures...

The bathroom floor is almost done!!!
What a PIA it is to do something new and have to learn the hard way as you go.

First Mistake.
Only priming the bad spots and not the entire floor.
Always prime the entire surface, I don't care what you're painting, prime, prime, prime.

Next Mistake.
Choosing a dark color.
I thought I was going to cut a fat hog by choosing a dark color that wouldn't show the dirt and ended up with a dark color that looked like ASS.
Back to the store.
We started out with Glidden Porch and Floor paint.

It is the thickest stinkinist nastiest stuff you have ever seen, so when we changed color we also switched to...

Behr Porch and Floor paint.
Which in comparison was like walking through a spring meadow, but after two coats the coverage wasn't what we wanted and there was no gloss to it.
Back to the store.
Behr no longer makes a gloss porch and floor paint.
Why didn't they tell us that when we asked for Behr Gloss Porch and Floor paint.
So they swapped us out for a gallon of the nasty Glidden at no charge and explained to 6 why Glidden was the only way to go with a floor paint.
Glidden is an oil based epoxy paint, hence the deadly smell where as Behr is a latex based enamel.
So the Glidden you could drive a truck over and the Behr you can't even clean off dog dirt.

Problem.
We have to let the Behr paint dry for 48 hours before applying the Glidden.

Fact.
With Glidden you don't have to prime.

The obvious.
We need to do more research before starting our next DIY project.

Our mini donkey Jack was supposed to have his feet done yesterday but our equine manicurist never showed.
I think he was probably in the cross bar hotel.

Why do horseshoers always always walk with one foot on the wild side?

Wendy came out yesterday and things were pretty tense at first.
Of course it was all because the conversation took a turn to the douchebag.
But, we were able to move past it and get on with our cookie making and ended up having a nice time.

I will be taking a blog break the last part of this week because THESE GUYS are coming to MY house!

I don't have permission to show Kenna's spouses real identity so I disguised him.

I think he has to stay home and feed the dog or something so it's just Kenna and the boys, but her Mom is coming too and a bunch of her Moms friends will be in town and so it will be a mad middle aged best friends forever party woooHOOO!

I met the BoBo Sisters last year and let me tell you, they have stories that will almost make you pee, so I can't wait to see them all again this year!

This is them together last year with all the kids AND grandkids!

Photo courtesy of Erin :)

Ok, thats all.

Peas.