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.

Kinda cool!

OK, this is totally cool. A photographer from the Coast guard took this photo of the swim from Assateague to Chincoteague. Remember those books about Misty???? This was from last weekend. I found the photo on http://armytimes.com under photos from the front.

Home again, Home again.

Well, we were home...but now we are home in EO. Tillytown was splendid. Nice and misty and dampish. Very awesome. I did get some pix..not too many. In fact, very few. And they are horrid photos, I need a new camera! LOL

The first one is WiNeMa Christian Camp and the last one is of J's cabin mates. There were 196 kids at camp that week and about 120 were girls! OH, and then I have another one. Let me see, here is Mari!

She is usually prettier than that, but you know after a week of camp you get kind of tired!

Off to put away the banana chocolate chip muffins. Almost done reading Belgarath and am going to start painting trim in J's room..and start Polgara. Great reads.

Just stuff

We've been busy, but nothing that is really worth photographing yet! I have made a few wedding presents and Dot's got some great sunflowers that came up volunteer. The one project I have been working on is a big, grey huge thing...and the little table that 'goes' with it. Stripping paint is lots of work! We have some ideas on the table that should make it easier!

Grandpa went out and harvested some catnip. Rusty really likes catnip, she was in a better position before I got the camera..obviously!

And here are the paint removal pix:

The cleaner side was with a heat gun, the uglier side was after two days of chemicals. I am going to continue with the heat gun!!! I will have to find out where the table pix are. I don't recall which file they are in!!!

Off to the coast to pick up J from church camp. Be back soon!!!!

It's another birthday!

S had a birthday this weekend and some very old friends dropped by. OK, they are the same age as S and I. But, they had not been around in quite a while. The shorter one was in our wedding and Aquaman helped S burn down a shed or two when they were smaller. Enough said on those two!!!! At least, for now! (Did anyone notice how similar they all look?????)

Anyway, we broke in the new house with a small select party. Actually, it was a blanket invite and whoever showed up were the ones who were there! There were not too many, but it was very fun. The yellow candles stood for 10's and the white ones were 1's. Much easier that way!



J also was sent off to Scout camp..at Meriwether! The next week he will be at Winema. I am jealous cuz he is on the coast and I am not! But, we do have to pick him up from Winema..so that will be awesome fun! Notice, he is one of the few dressed for the Oregon Coast!




Not much time to read right now. Our new library is opening today, though! I have been doing a lot of primering. You know, that stuff is hard to remove from skin after it dries!

T called last week. I have to send out notes to everyone on how he is doing. He sounds more positive than he has and he is getting a tad more sleep. They are still having mouse problems and they have their internet back finally. (yeah!)

T's birthday..a little late, but hey!

OK, as he is not here, we did celebrate. Moses apparently wanted something on the table. It probably wasn't the frosted brownie..it probably was the sirloin roast!
Grandpa had to blow out the candles. We figured he had the experience to do that (he is 83!). So, Happy Birthday T! We love you!

Debris and Derelicts

OK, it is NOT a derelict, but it is full of debris now!

This is our 'new' door to the kitchen. The fridge is still in the way. It needs framed and tidied, but it should be nice when it is done. The second photo is the bathroom. Minus just about everything. The cabinet thing is where the tub used to sit..we are not exactly sure what it was for. The other side has the laundry room. The wall that was next to the toilet and had the plumbing in it needed replaced as most of the plumbing was dangling in the wall.

this is photo from the kitchen side of our 'new' door. The wood looking part will also be removed eventually. The plaster is covering the chimney and is too messed up to reveal. So, we found a cool metal tile stuff for that. When it is done there will be a big opening to the dining room and a sort of a bar along and around the chimney. When it happens, we will post more photos.

Books being opened this week: David Eddings, Belgariad series.