Oops!

Bear with me folks. My computer is down with all my photos on it so I'm not able to post this week's progress. And there was so much to show!

The floor is down, the cabinets arrived on Friday, and so did the appliances. In the meantime, the gutters were installed and got their first workout about five minutes after the guys finished. My contractor brought his nephew with him this week and set him to work doing detailed weed eating around all the contruction debris laying around. At least now, I might be able to see the snake before I step on him.

I promise I will work on the computer and get pictures posted soon.

The Floors Are In! The Floors Are In!

It's true, the flooring is down. It's absolutely gorgeous and somehow or another, the floor was just the right size and I had practically no waste and the last boards in fit perfectly, and we didn't have to cut them. My contractor couldn't believe it cause that sort of thing just does not happen. It also left me with a lot more left over than we had figured for. Oh well, a nice little spot somewhere, sometime in the future.

Paint and Plants

Things seem to be moving so s l o w l y right now. Maybe it's just that I am impatient, but I so want this to move along. Seems like finishing takes forever.

We've started painting the walls. That is a slow process, cause you have to paint and then let dry and then paint and let dry. And there is just no hurrying it. But we definitely want to get the paint on before the floor goes down, because I just have horrifying visions of dropping a gallon of paint on my beautiful wood floors.

So the ceiling is going to be Informal Ivory and the walls are Moonlight Yellow.




In the process of all this, I now have a spotted dog, as Baby likes to cut corners a bit.



While I am watching paint dry, I've been outside doing a bit of gardening.




It it really takes off and grows and the bugs don't defeat me, I should have an abundance of produce for summer eating and putting by for the winter. I also have fruits coming on like gangbusters as we didn't have a blossom freeze to take out the forming fruit.

Peaches


Pears


I should be busy this summer preserving like mad. Hope it turns out as well as I want it too. I'll keep you posted.

Moving Forward

Sorry Folks, but I took a break for a while after I lost Lovely. The blog sort of lost its interest for a bit.

But life moves on, and so will I. She will always have a piece of my heart, but its a large heart so there is room for more life in there.

In the meantime, the house has kept going. Walls are up, mud is on and paint is applied. It's a bit hard to show exciting pictures of electrical wiring, but I'll try and put some life in here.


We got the geothermal unit housed and blended in with the rest of the house



We also got all the lights and ceiling fans up on the porch. I've already got chairs and a rocker out there. It's wonderful.




And I got some steps installed along the porch. Haven't got the ones at the front entrance done yet, but they will come with time.



I'll get busy this week and take pictures of the walls. Paint is starting to go up and it's going to look fabulous, Dahlings. I may actually get to move in yet!!!