My Chiropractor Loves Me

This painting is moving SO SLOWLY! The recommended approach to painting knotty pine is to:
1. Clean it thoroughly with TSP.
2. Patch the knots and nail-holes.
3. Caulk the joints in the paneling.
4. Prime with a shellac-based primer such as B.I.N.
5. Paint.

Good grief, this is labor-intensive. I started with the patching and screwed up. The patch I am using isn't sandable and I didn't realize until half the room had been done. Thankfully, it comes off with elbow grease and water. Sadly, this elbow grease comes at a high price when I'm in the early stages of treatment for whiplash. Grr.

Today, however, I've gotten the first half of the room ready and I will be starting to prime. (I can't do more than half at a time because there is furniture pushed up against everything!)

The other hiccup is that while I was settling in with my "Rhythmic Blue," I noticed that Mark was uneasy. Yep, you got it. He doesn't want the blue. O.K. No biggie. I was always o.k. with green. I sneak away from the family and mix up two gallons of "Dried Palm." Slap it on the wall at home and it looks yellow or white. In the perfect light, it looks like too-light green. Hmmm.

What to do, what to do?