Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Tom's garage

Well here's a pic of how far Tom's gotten on his garage .......not very. I have very graciously assisted him twice in the last couple of weeks, but without a push we're not getting far. So he went to work today & I hit the garage w/o him! It's so much easier if I just take over! He'll find everything eventually right?
So I did some serious moving & after about 4 hours was feeling pretty darn good about how much I had accomplished.
Guess who came home to help for the last hour? So I gave him a box marked "top of brown dresser" which was full of misc items from his garage at the old house that still hadn't been sorted. I heard "I looked all over for that" or "I knew I had this somewhere" at least 3 times. My favorite though, was when he pulled out this canvas bag with a rubber connector on the end, looked at me, smiled & said "guess what this is?" At my blank look he said "this is the sawdust collection bag for the miter saw!" A handy little gadget that connects to the saw & collects all the sawdust created by industrious people. This little gadget,which would have effectively cut down on my clean-up over the last two years by at least 50%, has been sitting in a box in his garage all this time! Now that the house is close to being done (I am an optimist by nature) he finds it!
It may not look like much just yet, but we did get a lot accomplished.
As you can see though, there is a little bit to do-still can't get my car in just yet.....

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Christmas cookies

There is just nothing better than the smell of gingerbread baking!
Elise, Griffin & Grama for our annual Christmas cookie baking.


Friday, December 5, 2008

Hot Tub's fixed

OK-it's the 5th of Dec, the part finally came in for the hot tub & it's fixed! We're back in business finally! I'd say Tom earned this!




"Thatsa" damn beautiful arch!!!!!

The stones on the outer arch are going in......here's the first stone.....


(is that a Kodak picture shot or what???)


here's the last stone......

just a whack or two from the mallet,get right up there on your tip-toes Mandy....


we want that last stone to fit!



"Thatsa" damn beautiful arch!!!!!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

We're Stoning!!!!

The scaffolding is set up, Mandy has her stone selections laid out on the work table, they're mixing up that mortar, getting ready to go......and the first stone is in!
Great team work-the inside of the arch is done-this is going to look awesome!