projects

So you all know I'm a little ocd, and since we decided when/where we would be moving to I have had the almost uncontrolable urge to start packing. I packed up everything I could in the basement, but since we still have several weeks here Thad won't let me pack up anything upstairs. I was really having a hard time restraining myself, so I decided I needed a project to keep my mind off of packing. So I started refinishing our dinning table and chairs. For those of you who don't know, we bought the set off this old man who was moving back to Brazil. It's super old, and had the weirdest finish, but we were poor students and it was cheap. I was planning on leaving it in Provo, but Thad got all sentimental about it and wanted to keep it b/c it was the first peice of furniture we bought together. Anyway, so I have one chair totally done, one halfway done and the table leaf done. Here are the before and afters.

Before After

You can totally tell it's a homeade job, but I think it looks a ton better.

Oh, so we have stray cats in the lot behond our house all the time. Thad likes to shoot them with his pellet gun. Anyway, there has been this one cat in the shed lately and everytime Thad goes in there to get something it attacks him! Usually they run away, but the cat hisses at him and growls and all sorts of crazy things and he has to throw whatever he can at it to get it to go away. Turns out, the dumb cat has kittens hiding behind some stuff in a corner of the shed. They are only a couple weeks old so we don't want to move them, but Thad is getting really tired of being attacked by the mommy cat ;)