The re-painting of the house slogs on. My parents came down last Saturday to help and we spent well over 6 hours ripping off siding and replacing it, scraping old caulk, painting, etc.

At 9AM Sunday morning I get a text from my dad asking what time they should come to paint. I told him that they worked hard the day before and should “go ahead and take the day off.”

At 10:30, they have shown up at my house ready to paint again. Their reasoning? Mom wanted to go to a new store called Von Maur. I assumed that is was some specialty store downtown and so they were using me to make the 45-minute trip worthwhile.

Below is a map showing how convenient my house is to this new, specialty store:

And it’s a regular department store.