Operation Sanding

It has taken for.ev.er.  to sand the walls in the pantry.  Evidently you're supposed to water down the joint compound before you apply it, otherwise it hardens into a concrete-like consistency.  

Ooops.

Needless to say, I'm not supposed to mud anymore.  Which is actually fine by me ;) 

I think it turned out pretty good, though.  I was going to do it in a dark gray/green color, but in the end I wussed out.  (Plus we already had light gray paint, and I didn't want to sink any more money into this project.)  Light gray it is.

So it's getting there!  Although operation sanding has turned into operation dusting - BIG TIME.