What else would I be doing on the May long weekend?

It's our long Victoria Day weekend in Canada, the start of the summer tourist season. So what else would I be doing but this?

Dear gods, I loathe painting. With every fibre of my being, and beyond any words in any human language.

This is the spare room adjacent to the master bedroom, and it had been the bright greeny-yellow you can see in the snapshot above for a long time. I'm in the process of slowly repainting the house in a completely neutral shade ("bleached linen" by Behr), and so help me god, once I'm done, I'm never painting in this house again. 

Last year I had done one of the back spare rooms plus part of the upper hallway. This year it was the room above, and as I'd bought 3 gallons, I have plenty leftover to do something else--either the guest room (but probably I won't) or the main level hall closet and hallway (I'm leaning to this).

There was a time when I would paint and then have a beer, hard cider or glass of wine to celebrate finishing; now I pop Ibuprofen to "celebrate" completing the job. 

Luckily for me, the boys were not inclined to help with the painting, and they spent the time either out in the garden or asleep elsewhere in the house.

 

I picked up a few plants at a couple of garden centres too, just one perennial and six annuals, and popped those into the garden this afternoon. It remains to be seen whether they take or if I have to move them. I lost a perennial I had planted last spring, though I can't say if that was from our long, hard winter or from putting the plant in the wrong spot (or other error on my part).

I'm not buying any hanging baskets this year, as they don't seem to last through the summer, and I'm not putting anything out front for the first time since I've lived here. I wasn't going to bother with anything in the back space, but of course I succumbed to a bit of temptation. 

I'm not sure what I'll do tomorrow, with my one remaining day. I have some house chores to do, and I need to get things back together in that spare room I just painted. Beyond that, I'll see. I might struggle to roll out of bed tomorrow. LOL.

I'll leave you with some pics from this past week, most snapped around campus at lunch times. The rabbit was on the way home on Wednesday, and the full moon pic was from yesterday morning. (I think the full moon explains why my energy was so "off" this past week. That's my theory, anyway!)

Peace.