May 2010

It's May already and I havent been to the house since January! Too long  a time to be away from home. I took two weeks off  from work in order to meet the tree guy who will take our trees to be milled, thus the income from that giving the ability to work on the kitchen wing. But despite my efforts, we were not able to sync our schedules...again! But I used the time well...I got to spend the first mothers' day in years with my mom, not just a card and a call, but a "lets cook together, have some wine and spend some time' mothers' day.
I also had the internet line installed. BUT despite the gas company, phone company and electric company being there, the phone company still managed to hit our sewer line...GEYSER!  I went to the New Bern Antigue car show..this town is obsessed with Bears.  But I also refinished the foyer floor and the back parlor floor. The porch got a new paint job and I finished painted some areas upstairs. Graham our neighbor and caretake a.k.a "Schneider" closed up the opening in the kitchen floor and set us up with a temporary kitchen sink.

MuShu chillin in the dog run

Dad an Mushu chillin at Mom & Dad's house..

New paint for the porch.

Definite improvement.

Stripped back parlor floor with the start of polyuretane.

The start of stripping the paint off the foyer floor. Another BIOTCH!

Fabric on the foyer cieling (can't sheetrock until both bathrooms are refinished) and finished foyer floor.

Finished back parlor floor

Oops! We hit the sewer line!

Upstairs Hall - new paint

Finished the last wall of the master bedroom

Graham hooked us up with a sink in the kitchen wing..no more going upstairs to do dishes! yea!

Dosent seem like much, but this section was open to the ground..allowing all sorths of creatures to come into the house.

One of the Bears in New Bern (there are dozens of all different themes)

Lovin' my library

Got this cool light for the library in Portland ME when we went to see Ali for her 16th b-day