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!!

Yard work

Trip south Friday








Saturday morning working hard!!























Day 1


After a few cuts.


Progress.





As clean as its getting.


The work crew. Me, Angie, Butch, Brian. Working hard today!!


Hey ya'll watch this!!


Ok they survived. But still. Crazy boys!!


Working on the poke saw.


Damage :(


This pile is about 30' long 7+' high and a 6' wide


Logs, logs, logs....we left a small pile in the back yard for the fire pit.
And with that angels and I are pure wore out and Butch is beat to heck!

Ttttttiiiimmmmmmbbbbbeeeeerrrrrrr!

If a tree falls when we don't live in town, did it really happen? Yep...it did :(


















Dang, that's a LOT of tree in the yard!! Insurance deductible is way too high to think about using it at $2500. Hum, bad choice on our part when we first purchased, eh? Oh well, live and learn. So looks like our next weekend is booked. Sigh. Oh well, we needed to go there anyway.

Tile work - last video from the Tile Man

here is the final pictures from the tile person.

No final pictures - they will come from me when we get down there.  We had planned to go this weekend, but regretfully kids schedules are playing havoc.  Drat it!!

Maybe it's better this way as it's too wet to drag any furniture down there in the truck... so if we wait we may be able to take a washer/dryer and a few odds and ends down there in the truck and empty our poor overflowing garage a bit!

Tile update

Tuesday morning. The kitchen was 98% done. (Looking towards the carport door)


Hall way is looking good (looking towards the front door)


Hallway looking towards the bedrooms.


Living room


Bunk room.

Once the kitchen is grouted we are officially done. Then Butch and I will head on down over the weekend to check it out and drop off odds and ends furniture.