back in the game
last week was fairly hectic as we worked to get some things finished up for the first of two Christmas parties we are hosting this year (on consecutive weekends). the first was Chrissy's girls Bible study group (and alumni) and this coming weekend is the one we host each year. hosting large groups of people is good motivation to get some stuff done! Chrissy got our house all Christmasy ... we got our tree Sat morning. got a type of blue spruce this year. it's a bit prickly, but looks nice and smells great ... mmm. so far only minimal batting at ornaments by the cats.so the kitchen is 99.99% done now.
yes, miracles do happen. i'll probably tinker on a few touch-ups and want to repaint/restain the door jamb going into the dining room sometime ... but it's essentially done. so, soooooo nice to have it done finally. we love the results. Chrissy finished a bunch of touch-ups and the repainting of the door jambs and the little shelves. i got 
the blank drawer front to cover the sink installed as well as the new pantry door. the old pantry doors were configured with 2 sets of 2 doors. we came back with a single large door with 2 recessed panels. and we decided it would be fun to make the recesses chalkboards ... and so it is.
the upstairs bathroom is a totally different world now also.
installed the exhaust fan/light last ... well ... sometime (a week ago Friday?). i'm too old to remember that stuff anymore i guess. it went fairly well. it's always a little scary cutting holes in walls (for a larger elec box to put switches beside the outlet i was pulling power from) and ceilings (for fan) of plastered walls. i was a tad concerned that the whole ceiling would end up on the floor. but alas, the hole went marvelously. running the wire went ok. even working in the attic a few minutes wasn't terrible for once (except for the bat that scared the crap out of me when it 
crawled out of a pile of insulation beside me). saturday (i can remember that far back) i got to the overhead shower. today (i'm off this week again to use up vacation time) i did some adjusting of the support hangers, riser piping (one connection was annoyingly leaky), and the gigantically huge long inner shower curtain (180") with two outer curtains. i may make the inaugural shower shortly (just got the drain running well enough to handle it ... i think). sorry the pics aren't great ... it's hard to take overall pictures in small rooms. oh, and Toby is a big fan of the new setup ... he loves roaming around the tub between the curtains. also today i finished a basement reorganization project i started a few weeks back. removed a bunch of junk (some ours, some old debris from who knows when) from the old coal room so that i could move a lot of boxes into there (stays drier in there and the space was otherwise wasted). added 3 more shelving units to the big room so that now pretty much everything is off the floor and actually accessible. de-spiderweb'd again too. no pictures, so you'll have to take my word for it that it's great improvement. maybe i'll throw some on flickr sometime.
outside progress has been S.L.O.W.
i will say that the contractor warned us ... but its still annoying. the crew seems to use any excuse to not come work. HOPEFULLY this week they'll wrap up the siding, trim and maybe soffits and gutters. please please please please. looks great so far!escape kitty escaped two more times ... these times by just shooting out the door while it's open. then last night he slipped between the screen/storm door and main door without me noticing. i was checking to make sure the outer door was latched right before going to bed. thought i heard him scratching at something when i was upstairs a few mins later but it wasn't until the second time i heard it while laying in bed that i realized he could have done what he did. he's so sneaky. almost cost him a very very cold night stuck between doors. this is getting out of hand. maybe we can tie him up on a 100' leash in the house?
being productive rocks.
fin.
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 12:51 PM
2 Comments:
It is looking SO NICE! All your hard work is definitely paying off! Good job kids!!
Nice work. I like the chalkboard idea. Way to think outside the box. The outside is looking great.
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