Five Done!

Progress: I hired a roof dude, my second Angie's List adventure.  The first was the plumber, to fix a leak under the sink, but that did not go well.  He says "Go buy a new faucet, then we'll talk ($68 please)."   But the roof guy was better.  No holes in the roof causing wall mold, that he can see.  He patched a couple broken tiles and fixed a bit of flashing.  I'm officially taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the mold.

I also did take another bath, with more tealights, and took a photo.

The new paint is yellow, which contrasts with the purple/taupe fixtures rather more starkly than I'd planned, but I do like the color, and it's becoming less jarring as I get used to it.  All funky purple southwestern wallpaper is now gone.  My friend Sharon will come up again next week to finish up the painting.  I'll post pictures when she's done.  I've been about as useful as an crustacean, though I've offered to assist.  I did make this helpful contribution for her however:

I consider it a study for a painting I am planning.  Jack was in LOVE with a carpet that had two gigantic red lobsters on a blue background, and I told him I would not get that for his room (because I really prefered the carpet he selected before he learned of the lobster carpet's existence).  But I promised to make him a lobster painting, in its stead.  Here was the carpet in question:

You can see that it would be hard for me to let him have this, not the least reason being that I am pretty sure lobsters have ten legs, not eight.

Aside from that, I also obtained a fire extinguisher for the kitchen, thanks to an unexpected trip to Costco with friends Gigi, James and Jonathan.  But being red, with lots of fine print, I'll need to work out a way to take an appealing photo of it...