Farewell, wallpaper. We are stripping the walls of the beautiful flowers and getting them ready for some paint! We have two types of wallpaper--the kind pictured was easy to get off, the rest is a bear: wet it, score it, wet it, peel little chunks of one layer, wet it, scrape little chunks of the other layer. There is WAY too much to do to be done by Friday. The youth are awesome--a group of girls helped with the walls and we are very happy for it--it was fun for all of us who were doing the work too. Anne's parents and brother are going to be up here and staying with us from this Friday to next saturday (8 days). It will be a good time, though I will have to work 3 of those days and we will be doing house or holiday stuff on all of the others. I really like Anne's family, so it should be fun. I also look forward to friends stopping by a lot.
Work is ok. We are making a lot of progress on a nearly-impossible IT job. IT is nice to accomplish a lot each day, but it is lousy to have to have such pressure to code so much in so little time.