Channeling college days

Loaded up and headed to FL to work on the house. Good thing I have no passengers as there is even. Wire basket setup in the passenger side of the front as well as a few things on the floor. ;)





Yep LOADED!!


What is in there you ask?
2 night stands
4 pillows
1 quit set
2 mattress pads
2 night stands
2 lamps
1 curved showed rod
4 paper type mini blinds
10 bath towels hand towels and a bundle of washcloths
10 beach towels
Two collapsible clothes baskets.
1 - 3 tiered wire basket
4 medium pieces of art
A coffee pot
And a HUGE suitcase!!

Does it look like I crammed that much in there?






This photo is a funny thing. The transition from Georgia with slightly wider shoulders and reflectors in the center to Florida when it goes DARK deserted road at night. The funny thing is there is a huge 4 lane roads about 1/2 mile up the road from here that you T into.

And with that Butch and the girls are in charge of the home front and I'm working on the little house for the week.

Smarty Pants

Proud mama brag – Elizabeth is presenting at the 46^th annual DAMOP.  Her presentation is Friday and is part of the “hot topics” according to her.  I can’t find it on the website, but how exciting for my soon to be Junior in College!  Go Lizzie, Go!

 

46th Annual DAMOP Meeting
June 8-12, 2015 • Columbus, Ohio

APS DAMOP 2015 Meeting

The 46th Annual Meeting of DAMOP is heading to Columbus, Ohio! The meeting will take place at the Hyatt Regency Columbus and the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The conference will open with the prize session at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 9 and continue with other exciting scientific sessions until 12:30 p.m. on Friday, June 12. In addition, a number of special events will take place during the conference including a welcome reception on Monday, June 8 at 6:00 p.m.

Weekend work in the yard

I think I'm done for the day so I will post this while sitting waiting for Angela to come back from driving school.

I got up early (?) to drop her off at 9 for her first session of driving. When I got back home I promptly went out back and dug a trench at the top of the wall. Why? To transplant Daylilies to. From where? From here:


Cant you see them? Yeah, neither can I. Thus the reason they being moved. Out of the jungle that has BIG burning bushes at the front that hide just about everything. Not to mention the shade. It's too much for the poor lilies.

So I dig and sweat and pull up this many:



Yea, my little wagon is FULL of Daylilies!

Off I go to the back to plant them, leaving the front to look like this now:


Better. I need to get some rocks in the back corner for the roof drain off and then some stepping stones to get to the dryer vent and hose bib in the corner. Probably from both directions. This way and in from the front door to the right of this picture.

After another 20 minutes or so we have this in the back yard!






And I'm hot sweaty and gross and hit the pool then laid out in the hammock:



Until I had to get dried off and head out to get Angela at noon for lunch following her first driving class with the instructor. ;) hope she liked it. She goes back this afternoon for her 2nd driving experience. Come to think of it I wonder if they're not out back doing parking lot driving today? Guess I'll find out.

Look ma, no more braces!!

After a two and a half hour appointment this morning and a follow up hour this afternoon, Angela is officially braces free!!!

I haven't seen those teeth in YEARS!!  Good to see them again - even if they are behind a retainer :)

CHACHING!!!!

Well, the kitchen cabinets are on order - good bad or indifferent they are on order and set to be delivered and installed on or about the 19th of this month.... when I plan to be on sight in FL. 

The gas line extension is on schedule for Monday for the 15th.  So... things are coming together.  AND if I get everything in place soon enough, measurements for the countertop? 

One can hope, right? 

NOW I’ll need to add the shaker look to the OLD cabinets – however, since it’s not all visible in one look (well, not from the door) I’ll hold off on that for a bit.

Walking

The last few months Mom and I have been walking - we've made it up to 1.7+ miles a walk - takes us a little under an hour to accomplish. We started off with 1/2 that, so we're doing good. Now if we can keep some consistency and not miss a week we'll see if we can't get it up to over 2 miles... that would take three rounds. Right now we're doing two rounds and calling it quits.

Workin for the weekend

This weekend was a working weekend ;)


The Clampets go to Florida!


All loaded up!!


The garage is a little emptier..not much, but some. I have a few things to paint here them transport them down after they've been worked on.

We headed down to Florida to work on the house. The main goal was the quarter round. I did some odds and end stuff while Angela and Butch worked on the moulding. They were a good team with measurements.

I discovered cork contact paper. I'm in love :)





In all the drawers.

We also put the drawer pulls and knobs on the cabinets and they look great! The cabinet doors are all hung and looking good. They need a touch up on all of them. But they're looking great.

Sunday was to be my fishing trip:


Yeah, did not happen. Winds picked up overnight and it ended up being 9' waves at the buoy every 4 seconds. There were 4-6 foot rollers close to shore and where we were going was to be 6-8 foot waves. We had one sick just as we were headed out...and honestly, I was a little green, but not horrible thank goodness for the patch!!

So we came back in and I went to the house to work.


The shed is now clean(er)


And the shoe mould looks good!!





What happens when you ask a kid to check locks :)


I totally spaced taking pictures of the cabinet doors up and with hardware ;). Whoops, next time!!

Drywall

You'll have to use your imagination as the pictures are from a different perspective. The originals with the holes are taken from different sides of the room.


No more gaping holes in the wall!!! It's so exciting to see, or rather, not see the hole I. The wall!!


Also no more holes in the ceiling either! Who hooooo!!


It's shaping up to be a nice house...slowly but surely. Next weekend is shoe molding and possibly starting paint in the kitchen. Then a few weeks respite until I get to go down for a week and work on the cabinets and furnishings...it may be a house soon enough ;)

Drywall

GREAT news: Drywall patches are complete and the house is ready to paint.
The bad news: Kid has band rookie camp this weekend and we're not able to go down and paint it just yet. Drat it!

Summer, summer, summer!!

I got a wild hair today to clean the furniture and cushions.


Then it turned into the WHOLE patio.


Putting it back together.


Beautiful.


I did take a few breaks to rest and the girl and a friend swam for a bit too ;)


I have a coozie problem. ;)


Ahhhhh. Organized, cleaned and ready to go for summer!!

Yard work

Today was yard work day. Cleaning the deck, plant the plants.


The load of plants!!


Before


More before


Again before.


After planting the new verbenas along the "row"


NEW daisies!!


Tomato with some flowers


And the other side.


Two citronella plants that are still not in the ground!!


I didn't do a thing in this bed.


And where Angela and I ended up after a bit of time in the hammock under the umbrella. ;)

Ah what a life!!!

Tile woes...and triumphs

So this is literally the LAST row of tile laid in the living room. That "grout" line is over an inch wide. Sigh. No way to have it look good even with shoe molding. Double sigh.





This is a doorway with no grouting t all. Another sigh. Not the end of the world, but still depressing.


So. Rather than stew and fret and fix it ourselves in all our free time (Insert hysterical laughing at this juncture) I asked for exactly what I wanted. I wanted it fixed. So I let our tile guy know and guess what? He came down and fixed it.






Much better, much better. A repair we didn't want to have to attempt on our own!


Don't worry the baseboard is not installed in this room so we should be fine here. And this is kitchen side and still needs paint.

AND I have a person lined up to do drywall...then I can go back down and arrange the cabinets and gas to the range!! Closer and closer!!