Spring Forward

We've been very busy at the office recently and haven't been able to dedicate as much time to the house as we would like. However, we are getting close to the end as far as the painting is concerned. Except for the ceiling in the closet, the upper floor is done. The main floor laundry room, bathroom and bedroom are all finished. Everywhere else has the primer/sealer done. The ceilings in the hallway and kitchen have the first coat of ceiling paint on. We have the first coat of colour on about 60% of the rest of the main floor. Keeping that in mind, I think that we'll be finished the walls this weekend. BTW, we have not even purchased the interior trim and casings yet, so obviously, that hasn't been painted yet either.
More good news - the snow is gone! Yay! We have had temps over 20*C at the house for several days and even the snow in the trees is now gone. Sadly, I messed it all up by putting insurance on the motorcycle yesterday. It hasn't stopped raining since. Oh, and I got my first mosquito bite of the season as I was putting the stickers on the licence plate!
The TNRD had "free dump days" the last couple of weekends at two of the area landfills. Of course, after loading our old truck to the gunwhales with crap, the belt tensioner on the motor broke, leaving it inoperable until I finally got the time to replace it a couple of days ago. The repair went very well and the beast is alive again! There is one last free day at the Pritchard dump this weekend. We'll try and get over there and dump our load. We probably have another 4 or 5 truckloads to pickup and take away, but at least it will be a start.
We did add another vehicle to our "farm fleet" this last week - a Bobcat 3400 efi utility vehicle. This is a tough little atv with a power dump box in the back. It will allow us to move all sorts of stuff around the property - fence repair items, firewood logs, gravel, dirt and eventually hay and horse manure. It works great allowing us to get into some very tight, hard-to-get-to places. I was able to take it into the forest, right up to the fallen trees so I could easily buck them up with the chainsaw and load 'em into the ATV box. Back at the house, I just pushed a button and the box emptied itself right next to the log splitter. Perfect!
We've also been busy choosing finishes and suppliers for some of the stuff we just can't do, like tiling the shower and floor in the upstairs bathroom and supplying a vanity cabinet and countertop for the same room. Stay tuned for updates there.
Pictures of the rooms with paint on the walls look very bland without trim and floors so I haven't posted any of them to show our progress, but as we get the flooring and trim installed we will try and be more diligent with the picture taking.