Wow! Here it is Dec. 20...I have half my Christmas cookies decorated. Gonna get right back to it as soon as I finish this post.
I have a whole new respect for the quilting blogs I read. I understand now why they sometimes post that they are taking a break and will return at .......... It sometimes takes me hours to put this together. I guess if you don’t have pictures to add, it doesn’t take as long. Oh well, I love adding the pictures.
Wow, things are moving right along! We’re going to cover “chipping,” painted exteriors, stained porches, and the ROOF.
Do you remember that we had a tree growing out of the corner of our bedroom? Well, they cut it down and dug out the roots and it joined the pile of branches in the back of the lot. Larry decided he wanted to “chip” all those branches and use the mulch. So, he borrowed a truck and rented a chipper. If I had known.....
Larry stood at the back of the chipper (a formidable piece of machinery) and waited for me to drag branches over to him (I laid them at his feet. How sweet am I?)
We were going great and suddenly...the chipper started smoking and no mulch was coming out! There are very few things that stump Larry, but he finally had to make a call. They told him how to open “something” (I don’t know what it was called) up and see if there were branches caught in there. Sure enough, there were branches wrapped around the mechanism. So, here’s Larry pulling out the offending branches....
My DH (Darling Husband) got the “beast” cleared out and my break was over. Here he is feeding the branches into it again.
My job was to disentangle the branches and drag them over to Larry. Because of all the dust, I had to wear a mask. I’m glad we were at the back of the lot. You can see the fence that runs along everyone’s back property line and separates our property from the ranch behind us.
Plastic over the windows in preparation for exterior painting....
The last third of the dining room window was finally delivered...
The garage in its new green paint...
The back of the house is painted...
I was waiting for Larry and he took this picture. When I went to the downloaded pictures to put on the blog, I found he had titled this one, “My lovely wife on porch.” Isn’t that sweet? I mean, there’s nothing lovely about me in this picture...love really is blind, isn’t it? I am blessed.
Our fire box was installed. We are having a ventless-gas-logs fireplace. It’s going to be so great to be able to adjust the fireplace as the day warms up. With the log-burning fireplace, as the day warmed up we had to abandon the living room because there was no way to “turn” the logs down.
December 13 the concrete porches were stained.
The front porch was scored to look like wood planks...
Another view of the front porch...
The back porch was not scored, just stained...
The back porch stained, the exterior painted...
The master bedroom exterior painted...
The stone has been delivered...
The roof has been prepared and ready for the shingles...
The stained porches have been sealed...
Another view...
All the exterior walls are insulated and ready for sheetrock. This is the insulation in the kitchen...
Dec 15 Larry called. He’s at the house and said they were roofing it. Yeah!!!!!
Roof over the front porch...
Roof going up over the quilting room... er, excuse me...2nd guest room....
The roof is on, the exterior is painted, the trim is painted...
Close-up of roof colors...
That’s it for now. Larry went back out to the house to finish putting the decking in the attic. He’s using it for “flooring” for storage. I hope we don’t have to put much up there, although I still have lots of boxes in the garage to go through. After Christmas, I intend to hit them with a passion...
Hopefully the next pictures will be of stone on the house! I hope we like it...
Larry and Joye
