10/31/2011

My knee surgery went well last Friday.  I am confined to taking it easy for a while, though.  In the meantime, all the ceilings and walls are up in the house.  He started the tape & mud process on the drywall yesterday!  Yay!  Hope everybody has a Happy Halloween!

Progress Update on the House

Let's see.  The plumbing is all tied up and has been pressure tested.  He wasn't sure about the Pex at first, but out of 90 fittings, only 3 leaked.  Those 3 were all at the bathroom sink area, and he had them all fixed within minutes.  He's decided the Pex is good.  Yesterday, he built the area for the triple-wall pipe to go through the ceiling and the roof.  After that was put in, he started to put up the rest of the sheet rock for the kitchen ceiling.  Today, it's raining.  He was glad to see that, as he wanted to check to make sure the vent pipe through the roof was not leaking.  It wasn't.  (I knew it wouldn't be.)  The house is really coming along nicely, and it looks fantastic!

Home Again, Home Again.

Made it home from camping in good order.  We did leave early and ended up with 5 days off, which was wonderful.  Good friends, good conversations, good food, good weather -- all adds up to good fun.  Did some shopping (or at least looking) in a block long area of flea markets in Billings.  We found a dining table with 6 chairs that we liked, but the pickup acted up, so we drove on back to the camp.  We were going to look at the Crane flea market block too, but did not manage to do that with worrying about the pickup.  It did not act up once all the way home.  Strange.  There were 12 little piggies born to the little red sow on Friday, 10/7/2011, while we were gone.  Our son was taking care of chores for us, and he called (very excited) wondering what he should do.  "Nothing" was the reply.  There was nothing for him to do, as the sow had everything under control.  ;-)  

There is sheet rock up in part of the bathroom of the new house now, and the sewer vent lines are all being tied in too.  The house is looking very good.  I will try to take some photos of the sheet rock that has gone up so far. 

October 4, 2011

Well, I'm still trying to figure out how I can comment to comments.  and I still don't have it right apparently.  The house is coming along nicely.  All the walls and ceilings are up except for the bathroom and kitchen.  He is in the process of tying up the last odds & ends on plumbing and electrical so he can move on to ceilings & walls in those two rooms.  We're going camping this weekend, though.  He will have a much-deserved 3-day weekend off. 

Comment to CW

Carol, I have been trying to comment to your comment, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.  LOL  I'll get the hang of this blogging stuff sooner or late.r  I was in the process of deleting old archived posts when iPower apparently deleted all of our files a day early.  Ah, well.  We'll remember them.  We'll see you here and on PL, I'm sure. 

October 1, 2011

Good Morning, Folks!  The coffeepot is on.  Guess we're full-time here now, since iPower decided to delete all our files a day early.  That's okay.  We'll remember it.  LOL