Nathan and Lisa: Popcorn ceiling and WSU

Last weekend Samson and I went to visit my sister-in-law Naomi at WSU with Barb and Natalie. We had a great weekend together and it was fun to finally see where Naomi has been spending the last several years. She is over halfway through vet school. Samson was a SPOILED puppy that weekend. We didn't want him to keep others up in her apartment building, so he was given attention at every whine and bark. We did a lot of walking around the campus and his little puppy legs couldn't keep up, so Natalie carried him around in a bag. He actually liked it and would fall asleep in there and just hang out. We smuggled him in lots of places...an ice cream place, bookstore, and even Wal-Mart. :) Naomi, Natalie, and I played volleyball Sat. afternoon with some of Naomi's friends. It was cold that weekend but we still braved playing with bare feet! I am definitely not ready for winter yet. It got cold over there!

While I was having fun in Pullman, Nate was quite miserable at home. He tackled our popcorn ceiling removal project. Fortunately my brother-in-law Randy offered to help Nate with the horrible project. We found out the ceiling has asbestos, so the guys wore haz-mat type suits. They spent all day working on it and after many frustrations and lots of hard work, they got all the ceiling off. Unfortunately Nate started getting sick the day before and he has been battling his cold/flu for the past week now. Today he is finally looking more like himself. We both spent a lot more time down there yesterday removing carpet, paneling, and cleaning. The next step is to texture the ceiling and put drywall up where all the paneling was.