Back at It

It has been such a beautiful week (again!!) This summer has been just amazing.  Honestly, this is the best weather that I can ever remember!  I took this pic mid week, just thought the sky was so pretty!

Now back to the real work...

Kade started drilling another hole in the foundation this morning.  Hoping we can finally finish up the water lines in the basement. (We still need to hook up the cold water to the clawfoot tub, didn't get that done today!)

Look at him go...who uses a level beside their drill?

So this is where we're at in the basement.  Before he got the hole all the way through he decided that we needed to finish framing the basement first.  SO...now THAT is what we're working on!

There really aren't many walls left to frame...just some awkward things...

like that duct work up there!

 

Hopefully in a month this space will look completely different!

We also got all of the doors installed upstairs.

(and by installed I mean put back on the hinges, lol)

I tried to tape off trim today too so I can give it its final coat of paint soon!

I can't believe these rooms are just about done!

The middle bedroom just needs the trim touched up and it's DONE!

Oh my....just look at all of that trim that I still need to touch up!

Oh...and one of the most exciting doors...THE HALF BATH!!!

The only bathroom we've been using for MONTHS, and it finally has a door!

Since this weather is still so amazing I decided to fill some holes we've got on the porch.

The house has had termite damage in the past (remember...we fixed that a LONG time ago)

I used some Great Stuff - foam to fill the empty spaces where they drilled to treat for the termites....leaving enough room in the top of each hole so that I can use cement & mortar for a better final appearance.  Why didn't the people that did the treating actually fix the holes that they made?

Here's a funny pic.  I had to "shake" the great stuff for a minute or something to get it all mixed together.  I was just too tired today, lol, so we put the can into our paint shaker and switched her one :)  Worked like a charm!  I need to remember that for mixing spray paint, etc. ha ha!

Wash + Dry + Run + Fun

Yeah!  Finally we've accomplished something that is photo worthy again!!  The washer and dryer are now installed!  They look so great!  I bought them around Thanksgiving last year, lol, we got a great deal.  I swear I'm not going to know what to do with a new washer and dryer!

Just need to touch up the trim in here and we are DONE with this room!!

 

So...it's kind of hard to see from this picture but when we got the saw out this morning we realized that we had some new friends living out on the trailer with the subfloor!  HORNETS!!

Ok...we thought they were honey bees, lol, how were we suppose to know?

So Kade goes around to the other side of the trailer and pulls on this piece of wood (the hornets are building between the wood and the tarp covering the flooring)  Just as soon as he pulls that wood they fly straight out and RIGHT AT ME!!!

I go running like a mad fool, flailing my arms and flipping my hair...it was like a swarm was going to carry me away!  I finally thought that I had gone far enough and acted crazy enough that they were going to leave me alone...not one minute later I got stung!  GERRR!!!  Good thing I'm not crazy allergic to them (just normal allergic, lol)  It burned like a small fire and then started itching a few hours later.

 Tonight we had the cutest little fisherman ever come out to visit us!  Look as his catch of the day.  He actually caught several and did a very impressive job reeling them in!  Hope Mason comes to see us again soon!

The Bucket Truck

Yep, that's right, a bucket truck.  That was the plan to get that pesky tree down that is hovering over the bedroom side of the house.  This morning Dad, F and Kade did what they could to finally get that problem off of our mind.  I know Kade was just dying to get into that bucket!

Alas...they were unable to get the tree down :(  It's just too tall and too questionable in where it's going to fall (and what it's going to take out on its way down!) Guess we need to call someone and get them out here. (add that to my list of things to do)

Kade and I worked on getting the washer & dryer installed this morning.  We have to get everything hooked up, probably should test the washer before we stack the dryer, and we still need to install the venting for the dryer.  (There's a hole that I don't want to cut!)  Hopefully we'll have that finished tomorrow!