Traditional Thanksgiving preparations

We're starting to gear up for Thanksgiving. We've done some cleaning, we have two turkeys thawing in the refrigerator, and tomorrow I'll get the last few things we need from the store. W. and MC are taking care of the pies, D. has agreed to bake the rolls, L. will probably do most of the cranberry -orange relish, so we're in good shape. Which (sort of) explains why, at 3:00 pm this afternoon, J. and I decided that we absolutely, positively needed to paint the family room. 

We had gone in there because I wanted to do a little rearranging and ended up staring at the current paint color, deciding we couldn't live with it a moment longer. 

It's actually worse in person than in the photos, being a hard to define mix between mushroom brown and khaki green that tended to suck the light and joy out of anything that came close to it. But to make it that much more unappealing, one of the walls was painted a different shade of green that did not coordinate.

Lovely, huh? 

But now it has one coat of primer and tomorrow J. will do a second coat. We have some neutral paint left over from painting upstairs bedrooms which will suffice until I can decide what to actually do with the colors in the room, you know, in another seven years. 

I think even with the patchy primer the room looks brighter, bigger, and more appealing.