Trying out curbside delivery
We are going to paint soon (maybe next weekend?), but we can’t paint without supplies and we had NOTHING. Well, we still had a couple of good paintbrushes and some dropcloths, but that’s it. We needed rollers, the round brush thingies that go on rollers, tape, trays, an extension pole for the rollers, and, of course, paint.
We picked out the colors on Saturday, and I’ll order the paint soon. We’re going the fancy route and using Sherwin-Williams. I ordered the other supplies through Home Depot Saturday night, planning to pick them up via the curbside delivery Sunday.
Our day started crazy early because SOMEONE didn’t go back to sleep after waking up at 3:30 that morning, so by 6 or so, we were ready to leave the house. However, since our first stop was to deliver a couple of hydrangeas to Emily and Sean and get our spackle back, we delayed leaving until the more civilized hour of 7:30. Turns out they’d been up since shortly after midnight with one kid or the other, so we probably could have gone earlier, but we weren’t about to text them that early to find out. After a good amount of time (and a good time) chatting with Emily, Sean, and the kids through the window while chasing Jack around the yard and driveway, we headed to Home Depot to pick up our order, which (aside from the somewhat convoluted parking lot) couldn’t have gone smoother. We parked in the curbside pickup zone – which, incidentally, was not at the curb – and called the number on the sign (which I also had in the notifications I got when the order was ready). Someone came out pretty quickly with a cart full of our stuff, handed me the receipt, and left. I loaded the car, sanitized my hands, closed the trunk, returned the car, sanitized my hands, and we went home. Super easy.
Sherwin-Williams is doing curbside pickup, too, so I’ll order the paint and pick it up sometime this week, and we’ll be ready to paint!