My nose tells me the smell is gone. My brain tells me not to be so sure. It may be back.

We are slowly working on getting the dining room back into order. I think it will be a while. The spackling has to be finished. Then the room will be painted (which we still have to buy.) Some of the molding is painted. Some of it still needs to be cut.

My husband has been doing most of the work, and he doesn't have a lot of time to work on it. Just some evenings and some weekends (we seem to be rather busy.) I've begun to help with painting the molding. But since we have a ways before we need that, I haven't been working too hard. But it should look splendid when we are done. Until then, we live in disarray.