more Round Up pix

Jake was nervous about the girls on the horses. So, here I have put my two photos together for her enjoyment...and the band members on horses (the entire band was riding!)....and last is one of the guys from the Umatilla Sheriff Dept with a tommy gun!!!!!! I was not able to get the Sasquatch. He was on a wagon with County Commish Bill Hansell. Seskie is also going on a tour to help celebrate Oregon being a state for 150 years and was interviewed, with Bill interpreting.

And that's it til I get the ice cream pix off of S's camera. Fun, fun, fun! More later!

Cementing the foundation and Roundup!

They did that all week. It was pretty wunnerful! Progress is being made! Here is our contracter and his help and the cement guy.

Then, THIS Saturday, 9-12, J was a part of the Pendleton Roundup Westward Ho! Parade. And then he worked at the Roundup grounds as a Scout and then, later, he and S, as a members of our church, made ice cream cones. He was a very busy boy!

J was a bit out of step, but it was his first parade!!!! The vests are Pendleton Wool and they had to have black dress pants, long sleeve white shirts, and they have the most awesome ties with zippers! It was 95 degrees.....

And for all you OSU fans, here is a Beaver pix. I could have taken photos of a coug float and a duck one, but this one was more colorful! They had a Eastern Oregon College one, too.

Am reading LM Alcott again.

What J did this weekend

Walla Walla had a car show. So, he took a gazillion pix with my phone! Gotta love technology! The bike was an electric one and the gray car was from a shop that S had looked into working at. However, it would have been more fun than bringing home any bacon!

I rather liked these two! Mostly for the colors!LOL.

But, this one was my favorite by far!

It had a sign asking people to touch it!

Gotta roll!

A quarter note!

Here we have our ceiling in a lovely chocolate truffle with part of our fan light that cost us (with parts) about 20$. It is a Home Depot fan/light that sells for $79, but we found it at a Good Will! Next time we should have the trim up with a complete and working light (it works tonight, but I took the pix this am). Since we got it so cheap, we also purchased a more spendy bit. A remote!

These two photos are kinda funny. The first room, the dining room, is an Irish Cream. The living room is actually a color called Interactive Cream. They look exactly the same! They were two more of my mistint colors from Sherwin Williams..for $4 each gallon! The scraped part in the living room is where I am taking off the old paint to see what is underneath on the shelves. The dark splotch on the other side is actually another mistint. Pine cone. We are going to put it on the beadboard in the living room. The dining room will have the chocolate truffle for its beadboard. Trim will be added soon, cinnamin cake. (did I already mention these colors??? If I did, I am sorry, it is just so exciting to see color on the walls!). We have to cut in the edges still, so there is lots more work to do.
Fun, fun, fun!

A half note of painting news.

This is going to be short, because there has not been much done yet. We did get the addition started and S has primered most of the downstairs, so progress is being made. We still have the living room to primer yet. The kitchen has been mostly painted off-white and maybe this weekend it will get finished and the chocolate truffle ceiling will be painted. We'll have to see.

This is where the supports for the addition will be (note-the plums on the tree by the dirt pile are NOT ripe yet):

Views from inside the kitchen:

Views from the living room, one just inside it and one from the far corner:

Demolish it~

OK, here are photos of the demo work on our back porch. I am not sure if we have a before photo of it, but here is the during!

Hmmmm, I thought I took more. I am standing in the doorway to the someday hall and the window next to me will be the bedroom door. The white part jutting out into nowhere is the old linen closet and the white door near the air conditioner is J's closet. We will take out the AC and put our bathroom linen closet there. You can also see the old siding and colors.

My patchwork rug that I got for free and pieced together. One side of the room will have 4 feet of linoleum for the train table. I know it is badly done, but it was my first carpet!

And some of my garden areas. I rather like the white flowers, I hope I saved a tag so I can get some more next year!!

This first one has some debris from the junk around Grandpa's. They look pretty nice, huh? The one with legs is holding a fountain and the sunflower in the blue pot was volunteer. The yellow flower was made on the Trask and if you look close there is exactly ONE cosmos that grew from all the seeds I planted. In the far right corner, you might be able to see my ONE nasturtium that came up. I planted the ones in the white box because I love nasturiums. On the other end of the garden I discovered 3 tiny sweet peas..I am not having much luck with Sweet Peas.

Reading Anne and The Fairy Godmother.

Sheet Rock!

This is a photo op of the work done and the youngest daughter of the owner. Isn't she cute??? She is on a ladder and is in HS in Helix.

This first one is from the living room...I think I need a new camera. The second one is the living room, on the end.

Here is the dining room with our new door (kitchen cabinets are still installed as it would have taken a lot to take them out) and the next one is in the kitchen looking to the laundry room.

This is the chimney area where the bar and counter will go.

Pretty nifty, huh????? I would post more blogs on what else we all did this weekend, but then I wouldn't have anything to write about later this week! So, in the next installment....DEMOLITION!

Still reading Anne books. It is a long series!

Working on the house

I forgot the camera so I wasn't able to get pix of what S has done this weekend. Which is a ton. The next shots will be of the done work..with the sheetrock on it. Here is the rather messy kitchen.

This is the sink by the window again and above the door to the laundry room. S has to 'fix' it all for the sheet rock to go around properly. Very frustrating. The last one is the new doorway to the dining rom. Tonight he worked on rewiring the kitchen.

And here is the light switch I made. J smashed the shells and drew the tops, I glued and colored it all in.

Reading the Anne books. Also melting. It has been very hot here. But, it is hotter in Iraq! If I keep telling myself that, it helps make it more bearable! Right now it is 97 degrees and 11 pm.

Sheet rock guys are coming!!!!!

We thought that they would be here at the end of October, but they had a change of plans and can arrive tomorrow!!! So, we have been really busy getting ready for them. We have to remove trim and lights and make a wall..busy, busy, busy!! Here are the rooms that we are preparing. The living room, the dining room, and the kitchen.

And see what we have in our backyard?????

Isn't it pretty?? The only bad thing is that I sneeze during the harvest and it has been a long harvest!

Just finished Cry of the Icemark again..a good read for a hot summer. Not sure what to pick up next. Can't do too much on the house while the sheetrock guys are there. I'm making J a light switch plate..it is pretty J-ish!

T sent photos!!!

He has 3 on his myspace page, but I stole this one!!!!! He also called and is sounding good, just like he looks.