Well, it was a long three day weekend. I took a half day on friday to spend time putting up insulation... and spent quite a while doing that and some of the other things to get ready for the weekend. My parents, Laura, and her dad helped extensively to get things done. Laura's dad bricked up the hole between the house and the garage. Quite a bit of ( Read more... )

Well, Saturday we worked on the house... unfortunately we just did not get that much done. It seems that none of us really had our hearts in it... except my uncle who spent a bunch of time putting up insulation... that is not to say everyone else was working, just not at full speed ( Read more... )

Well, Sunday kicked my ass. We finished up the bathroom floor, test fit the bathtub, and drilled most of the holes for the wires. The conduit from the meter to the new breaker box was installed and the wires run. 3 ott wire is impressive... and so large it is not even carried by home depot (though they carry the box, which is odd.). By the end of ( Read more... )

Well, after a slow week, we made up for the time lost today.

The bathroom floor is gone, and about 3/4 put back. The mess in the basement continues to grow... but once it was ruined it hardly mattered anymore. The only thing I am wish i did not care about was hauling it up the stairs... but I will have help with that most likely. The bathroom floor ( Read more... )

Well, I skipped working on things tonight. I went by the house and the driveway is impassible due to them pouring new concrete at the end. I watered our garden. There are blossoms on the watermelons now, and most of the tomatoes, and the zucchini, and the cantaloupe, so not too bad a start. The corn is only about knee high, but that is about normal ( Read more... )

Well, the front garden is finally filled and our front yard is without a pile of dirt now. I mowed the lawn yesterday and Laura finished weeding the veg garden. We had a scare about taxes, but that is straightened out. We have an electrical permit to upgrade the circuit breaker box ( Read more... )

Well, we took out the window in the bathroom, reframed the wall, and put the window back today. Tomorrow we need to pull out a waste water line and replace it from the basement to the roof. It is not going to be easy, but fortunately I have my father to help. I honestly don't know what I would do without him on these projects ( Read more... )

Well, I had a half day today so I broke out, and mostly disposed of the upstairs bathroom floor. People kept telling me I did not need to do it, but as I suspected, the floor is pretty rotten. At one spot my foot sunk in and left a dimple... so all that has to come out after we are done reframing that wall. I know I signed up for work... but ( Read more... )

Well, after spending 3.5 hours doing squats to pick strawberries I came back and cleaned up before being dropped off at a friend's place to get a ride to a graduation party for a fond acquaintance. We ended up playing rock band for a few hours stressing muscles already abused. Then we get to the party just to walk up a big hill, to go back down the ( Read more... )

( Here is what I did with my morning. )