Hello all....
I suppose we can count on me blogging about every few weeks....lol!
I won't condemn myself too much, there just hasn't been much activity out there and I'm always very busy! I also go on computer strikes quite often, to where I just dont want to put up with the busy-ness of being on the computer and spending time posting, emailing, etc.!! Sorry everyone!! I usually will make it out of those frumpy moments and I'll get in some correspondence with my neat friends! Again....sorry!
Today Mel went out there to see the insulation...as it was put in yesterday and finished up today!
Richard was out there today doing some nice work on the rock we've got out there!! He's making it so we can make good use out of what's already out there so we can order less when it comes time to landscape! It looks good already and he's not done yet!
Sheetrock gets hung starting on Thursday!! WOW!! That will be a huge change!
Electrical rough in is completely done! I will have pics of the electrical stuff up tonight!!
Tom was out there this past weekend on Saturday with Richard to finish up little tidbits of things. Tom finished the roof and returned materials to Home Depot!
Richard did odds and ends framing fix ups...he changed the door framing for us, since we FINALLY picked a door system. It's simple but what I had wanted from the beginning and it just took a while to get there!
We picked a simple two panel fiberglass door with the top panel having an arch and we will have rainglass windows from Millgard installed into the two sidelite panels that are full 6 ft. panels. I'm excited to have the rainglass for privacy purposes. It's real popular to have the open window sidelites, but it just bugs me that people could look into your house at any moment. If I want to walk around in undies or something...I don't want to feel like I can't because of the darn open windows on the side of my door! TMI...sorry! But just trying to get my logic across!!
I went in today to order our garage doors, and it was easy!! I was so proud to have made a quick decision on that one!! It's easy to figure out what you like if you drive around the different neighborhoods to see what's out there and what you like and dislike!! It's a great way to figure things out!
Now with the cabinets that a different story....I was wishing it was the parade of homes time around here so I can just look at different cabinet layouts! I'm dragging my feet at figuring out what I want! We are closer...I met with him two weeks ago and expected to order cabinets by last week but we didn't! So hopefully we'll get on that! It took way too long to pick out the doors and I don't want to do that with the cabinets, since they take awhile to get here! Mike at M.L. Cabinets is who we are working with he is doing a great job coming up with something we will like! I'm just so excited to have my bench seat in the laundry/utility room!!
I found a great deal at a yard sale for some pendant lights. They were $15 a piece brand new! We need 3 pendants and they can be pretty spendy I hear! Haven't even looked yet!
So we are not sure if they will tie in with what we are doing with the cabinets, arched doorways, etc...we'll see! I'll just sell 'em on craigslist if I need to!
Okee dokee...got to go to bed and need to upload some electrical pics!!
Good night all!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Hi all!!
March 29th was my last post!! Wow, time sure flies.
So where I left off was saying that Jeremy was maybe going to come and help Tom with the roof! Their horse Bonnie did not have a baby by that time and Jeremy was able to come help Tom all day on Monday March 30th! Tom was ever so grateful for his help that day! The day was pretty breezy but so nice and sunny! They got a lot done.
Tom ended up starting to work with a friend on a job that is supposed to last 4 weeks. They started on Wed. April 1st.! So that will be wrapping up pretty quick!
Tues. was a violently windy day! So no roof work that day! In fact the black tar sheets they had rolled out all blew off and Tom had to buy more to lay out!
Tom starts the other job and Richard helped Tom finish the roof work at the Clark house here and there throughout that week. Tom went on Friday after work to try finishing up the roof and on Saturday the April 4th Grandma Rodriguez came to watch the kids so Tom could work all day on the roof to finish it up! The electricians were gearing up to start in on the Clark house!
We met with Brad of Silverline Electric on Monday April 6th for an hour or so to talk about every detail of outlets, lights, etc. All's I can say is 'WOW'...so many things to think out!
Brad is an easy going fellow and didn't mind the endless calls from Melissa asking tons of questions! Thanks Brad! I was wanting to take pictures of them doing the work and I think they all thought I was nuts. (They don't know I'm a pictur-a-holic, even though I tried to tell 'em) So I got a few shots in but man, it was like pulling teeth so to speak!! Thanks for letting me try anyways guys! I'm posting your pics on the blog here and I told them they would be the 'boys on the blog'!! Ha!
The week of April 6-10 there was no activity at the Clark house. On Sat April 11th our windows were delivered by Albrecht Glass and Tom and Mel's brother, Will set the windows in a few hours that morning before Melissa had to go to work!
So comes Monday the 13th...electrical work begins! Melissa drives out to the site on Tuesday and Wednesday to see progress and talk to the guys about all the notes I wrote down. Tom Clark and family drove out Tuesday night to take a look at progress!
Friday we took our dear friend Mitzi, (Melissa used to live with Mitz for a couple of years) to see the Clark house. It is neat to see it in the stage it's in! We are excited to see how it will progress!
Well I think that's all for now...I'll post again quickly if I remember something. Got to go get the dishes in the dishwasher and fold some laundry!! Good night!!
March 29th was my last post!! Wow, time sure flies.
So where I left off was saying that Jeremy was maybe going to come and help Tom with the roof! Their horse Bonnie did not have a baby by that time and Jeremy was able to come help Tom all day on Monday March 30th! Tom was ever so grateful for his help that day! The day was pretty breezy but so nice and sunny! They got a lot done.
Tom ended up starting to work with a friend on a job that is supposed to last 4 weeks. They started on Wed. April 1st.! So that will be wrapping up pretty quick!
Tues. was a violently windy day! So no roof work that day! In fact the black tar sheets they had rolled out all blew off and Tom had to buy more to lay out!
Tom starts the other job and Richard helped Tom finish the roof work at the Clark house here and there throughout that week. Tom went on Friday after work to try finishing up the roof and on Saturday the April 4th Grandma Rodriguez came to watch the kids so Tom could work all day on the roof to finish it up! The electricians were gearing up to start in on the Clark house!
We met with Brad of Silverline Electric on Monday April 6th for an hour or so to talk about every detail of outlets, lights, etc. All's I can say is 'WOW'...so many things to think out!
Brad is an easy going fellow and didn't mind the endless calls from Melissa asking tons of questions! Thanks Brad! I was wanting to take pictures of them doing the work and I think they all thought I was nuts. (They don't know I'm a pictur-a-holic, even though I tried to tell 'em) So I got a few shots in but man, it was like pulling teeth so to speak!! Thanks for letting me try anyways guys! I'm posting your pics on the blog here and I told them they would be the 'boys on the blog'!! Ha!
The week of April 6-10 there was no activity at the Clark house. On Sat April 11th our windows were delivered by Albrecht Glass and Tom and Mel's brother, Will set the windows in a few hours that morning before Melissa had to go to work!
So comes Monday the 13th...electrical work begins! Melissa drives out to the site on Tuesday and Wednesday to see progress and talk to the guys about all the notes I wrote down. Tom Clark and family drove out Tuesday night to take a look at progress!
Friday we took our dear friend Mitzi, (Melissa used to live with Mitz for a couple of years) to see the Clark house. It is neat to see it in the stage it's in! We are excited to see how it will progress!
Well I think that's all for now...I'll post again quickly if I remember something. Got to go get the dishes in the dishwasher and fold some laundry!! Good night!!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Busy weekend!
Hi all....on Friday Tom and Richard were busy working on facia and started roofing. One big snafu, which was my fault, was that I didn't go take a check to the business that was going to provide the roofing so they were going to not send out the roofing materials until Monday but Tom needed it on Friday to start, so he found another company that was willing to send it out right away! Whew...what a bummer!
The weather on Friday was pretty overcast and windy and rainy..ick! But they still hung in there a full day. Tom stayed to work on the house till dark. Melissa was worried because at 8:15 Tom hadn't shown up yet and so Hannah and I drove way to fast out to the house....I was thinking Tom was laying on the ground hurt or something! His phone was dead too...bummer!
He was OK...talking with a friend who helped him a little with the roof! Thank God because that was a big scare! Josiah was with his Grandpa and Nana Clark who came to pick him up for an overnighter since he hasn't seen them much lately! He had a blast of course!
Tom worked Saturday, thankfully, since Grandma Forrest came to stay with Hannah for the morning until Melissa got off work...it was a very cold, windy, heavy rainy day and the guys still worked! Kudos guys! They eventually went inside to do some finish up some small details!
Tom worked Sunday as well for the morning until Melissa went to work at 1 pm and then Papa and Grandma Forrest came to take the kids for a couple more hours for Tom to finish his interior projects. He wants to focus on the roof tomorrow (today :{ )
So Tom's brother Jeremy should be coming to help Tom with the roof tomorrow unless their horse Bonnie ends up having her baby. He will be driving all the way from Spokane! Thank you Jeremy, you are awesome for helping! Tom & Jeremy owned their own roofing company in Spokane while they were both going to Eastern Washington University! It paid the bills and got them through school! Fun times!!
I will be posting a few video clips on the blog in the bottom where the pics are...I had uploaded them to the sidebar but they didn't fit so I had to delete them and it's 2 am so I'm not going to try again!
Goodnight...sweet dreams everyone!! God Bless you all!!
The weather on Friday was pretty overcast and windy and rainy..ick! But they still hung in there a full day. Tom stayed to work on the house till dark. Melissa was worried because at 8:15 Tom hadn't shown up yet and so Hannah and I drove way to fast out to the house....I was thinking Tom was laying on the ground hurt or something! His phone was dead too...bummer!
He was OK...talking with a friend who helped him a little with the roof! Thank God because that was a big scare! Josiah was with his Grandpa and Nana Clark who came to pick him up for an overnighter since he hasn't seen them much lately! He had a blast of course!
Tom worked Saturday, thankfully, since Grandma Forrest came to stay with Hannah for the morning until Melissa got off work...it was a very cold, windy, heavy rainy day and the guys still worked! Kudos guys! They eventually went inside to do some finish up some small details!
Tom worked Sunday as well for the morning until Melissa went to work at 1 pm and then Papa and Grandma Forrest came to take the kids for a couple more hours for Tom to finish his interior projects. He wants to focus on the roof tomorrow (today :{ )
So Tom's brother Jeremy should be coming to help Tom with the roof tomorrow unless their horse Bonnie ends up having her baby. He will be driving all the way from Spokane! Thank you Jeremy, you are awesome for helping! Tom & Jeremy owned their own roofing company in Spokane while they were both going to Eastern Washington University! It paid the bills and got them through school! Fun times!!
I will be posting a few video clips on the blog in the bottom where the pics are...I had uploaded them to the sidebar but they didn't fit so I had to delete them and it's 2 am so I'm not going to try again!
Goodnight...sweet dreams everyone!! God Bless you all!!
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