Painting, cleaning, and more painting! On Sunday, Eric went back to Issaquah and did a BUNCH of work. He cleaned off the roof (which took the entire Seahawk’s game!), scraped off several more layers of Justin-related grime, cleaned floors, cleaned out the fireplace, and trimmed back all of the vegetation touching the house. He also spackled some holes in the bathroom.

Last night, we went back to the house after work. I finished painting the bathroom and repaired some molding while Eric re-hung the bathroom door in the master bedroom, cleaned out cabinets, polished the glass stove top, and bleached the toilets. We didn’t leave until a little after 9:30 pm, so it was another late night for us. I think there will be one more marathon day of reattaching hardware, wiping everything down, putting another coat of polish on the floors, and running the vacuum, and then the house will be ready to list.

We didn’t get the expected rain yesterday, so our place has had a little extra time to dry out and the roads to work are all open again.

Thesis news: I'm almost 60% of the way with the first draft for my thesis. I've had a pretty good response from the state-level agencies I've contacted, but need to start chasing the federal agency contacts. As part of my literature review, I'm reading a book called "Wildlife and Recreationists: Coexistence Through Management And Research", edited by Richard Knight and Kevin Gutzwiller. While its a compilation of journal articles discussing the impacts of recreation on wildlife and wildlife recreation ecology, I'm ridiculously enthralled by it and actually find it hard to put down. I guess that's when you've discovered what you're meant to do- when you can read a book on a work-related topic and you can't get enough LOL!