She's Home!

Yay! Belle's home! And obviously I gave her a name.

Right now Belle is sitting in the driveway, almost exactly were I wanted to park her. I still need a lot more practice backing her up since it took six tries to get her near to where she needs to be.

I picked Belle up late yesterday afternoon and can't wait until I get to work on her some more. I had previously brought home the doors to strip to give myself a jump start. There are so many layers of paint it's scary. There is the baby blue on top of the 70's southwest orange, which is on top of white, which is on top of the original creamy green color. The wood underneath is not fabulous, and the paint is not stripping off very well. I will probably end up painting everything for now and decided about changing out all the wood after the big trip.

I have, not counting today, 18 days to get her ready to go on her shakedown cruise. And then only 3 days after that until we leave for the Midwest. So there are a lot of things that probably won't be done that I wanted to be done, but I think it will be OK.

Wish me luck!