Paint it Up!

Each week we create a list of tasks to be accomplished within the seven days ... one of last weeks was to have the interior painting complete. Well, unfortunately, clean-up from the re-sanding of the cement foundations lasted a few days longer than anticipated and painting didn't begin until Friday.
To find cardboard to protect the floor from drips (remember our floor is a piece of art all in itself!) we went to an abandoned train car area where people sell (or buy) cardboard boxes. For about 12 cents, you can buy a kilo of broken-down cardboard.
Since we don't have pictures of this Ukrainian experience, you'll have to use your imagination ... you walk through an abandoned field, littered with garbage, to a three story brick structure - not quite sound enough to be called a building - where you then make the business transaction.
While we were there a man and woman came with 13 rolls of old wall-paper ... Soviet era old. The couple looked emaciated from drug addiction - and could barely carry on a conversation with the head-rolls and twitches. They said they'd sell us the wall-paper for 80 cents a yard to use as floor covering. We weren't interested - and they lowered the price - 80 cents total!
"He needs some whiskey," the woman explained. "Six - rhp (or 80 cents) will get him what he needs."
So we bought the wall-paper.
When we returned to Bubbles we told the workers we changed our minds, and instead of painting the walls, we wanted them to put up wall-paper.
They were visibly up-set - so much time and effort into texturing, sanding, and stabilizing the drywall just to put up wall-paper!?
They were very pleased to hear we were kidding. For now our 80 cent Soviet wall-paper covers the floors, and the interior painting continues ... a top the "to-be-completed" list for this week.