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August 2005

Day 171 ~ pumpkin or tangerine?

Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:59 P GMT-06

REALLY not liking the color in the kitchen/living room areas. You can see all the roller marks and it looks bad. It's also more orange than the swatch they color matched to. So after much thought we have decided to finish all of our first coat

Day 170 ~ siding and paint

Tuesday, 30 August 2005 8:00 P GMT-06

I did some more siding while Dennis worked today.Then I started painting in the kitchen. The paint looks brighter than I wanted, so far, we may have to tone it down with some rag rolling or something.Here's our ceiling fan and room with outlets and

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Day 169 ~ Cabinets, ceiling paint and siding

Monday, 29 August 2005 9:52 P GMT-06

We got the cabinets today but they're boxed up until we install so the photos will have to wait on them. We got the living room, kitchen and hallway ceilings painted. That took 8-9 gallons of paint. Then we worked on siding while the paint was

Day 168 ~ Texturing the living room & kitchen

Sunday, 28 August 2005 11:59 P GMT-06

We managed to finally finish sanding the living room, kitchen and 2 hallways. Then believe it or not we got it primed and textured. This makes up about 868 sq ft of the house so it was a big job to finally accomplish. When we were done . .

Day 167 ~ front porch and whole family working

Saturday, 27 August 2005 11:59 P GMT-06

Our front porch - it will have some cedar on top of the treated wood. Icky rainy day.Dennis guiding Amy and Mikal in their sanding.Khristiaan mudding bullnose.I was finishing mudding inside corners. We found we liked the fiberglass tape for them

Day 166 ~ Front porch and more

Friday, 26 August 2005 11:33 P GMT-06

Maybe we're weird but we have been working on the inside of the house for days and today we moved out to do the front porch AND it rained. That's life I suppose. I forgot my camera at home so I'll try to get photos tomorrow. It turned out good

Day 164 ~ Painting Master Bath and Bed

Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:00 P GMT-06

Mikal and Amy painted on his room today, they got two walls done. It's a light grey.I got the second coat on Haden's room and our bath. Photos of those rooms are on yesterday's entry. I mudded the laundry room and sunroom so now all mudded area

Day 163 ~ Painting

Tuesday, 23 August 2005 9:31 P GMT-06

While the boys sanded today I mudded Khris's room. Then I painted Haden's, well I ran out of paint so it's not totally done but it's getting there. He wanted his walls the same color as the painter's tape so we matched color swatches to the tape

Day 162 ~ We have power (many photos)

Monday, 22 August 2005 11:59 P GMT-06

Friday the electric company finally hooked up our power. So, Dennis wired a room and turned that breaker on so we can have lights and work later. Garage ceiling done and two walls done. Although we plan on drywalling the other two walls they are

Day 158 ~ Drywall & Joint Compound

Thursday, 18 August 2005 1:37 P GMT-06

Just letting you know I'm still around. Still busy with mudding the drywall. We got all of it hung that we're doing before we move in. We're waiting to drywall the lowest level, our office, sewing, storage and wine rooms until we move in. So

Day 152 ~ vaulted ceilings are a pain to mud

Friday, 12 August 2005 10:25 P GMT-06

The boys helped me get up a few more sheets of ceiling in the garage but Mikal and my backs were hurting so we're going to finish it tomorrow. After I took the boys home I went out mudded some more. Yesterday I started the mud in the garage then

Update on Mikal's wreck

Thursday, 11 August 2005 8:42 P GMT-06

Mikal's girlfriend went to the doctor today and she has torn a ligament in her neck. She gets to wear the lovely neck brace for a while. Since we still hadn't heard from the other driver's insurance company we called them only to find out he no log

Mikal's wreck

Wednesday, 10 August 2005 8:53 P GMT-06

As crazy as it may sound it had crossed my mind that maybe JoZe died to save one of my children. Well, none of my kids had any close calls until last night. Maybe JoZe saved Mikal. Last night Mikal was driving home from a friend's and a ca

Day 149 ~ Electric Company and State Inspectors

Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:59 P GMT-06

Went by the electric company yesterday to find out when they plan on running the wires from the road to our house. They said they had not received the form from the inspector. So, called the inspector - he's out of the office on vacation and his

Day 147 ~ Almost done with drywall

Sunday, 7 August 2005 10:18 P GMT-06

Today was a fairly productive day. Dennis continued on his mudding and got 3 more doors put in. The kids helped me get a few more ceiling sheets up then I got quite a bit of wall up. We're actually down to only one full piece of ceiling, one fu

Day 146 ~ Cocoon completed

Saturday, 6 August 2005 11:59 P GMT-06

Khristiaan helped Dennis continue blowing in the insulation. They started about 7 a.m. and they got done about 1 p.m. We had 150 bags and did them all except about 20 bags which will go above the garage once we get it's drywall up. We may need

Day 145 ~ Cocoon (and Fibi photo)

Friday, 5 August 2005 11:59 P GMT-06

Tonight we started giving our house a cocoon. Hopefully, she'll be a beautiful butterfly soon.

Day 144 ~ knocking out drywall & trimless doors

Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:59 P GMT-06

Mikal came out for a few hours and helped us get the ceiling finished in the Master Bath. . .. . . upstairs hall. . .From left to right the doors lead to Mikal's room, Haden's room, Bathroom. Past the bathroom door the hall continues a little to th