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!!

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!