The Drywall Difference

Wow - what a difference the drywall makes. Last week was

drywall going up - on the week-end was the mudding of the drywall - and today, Tuesday Feb 15 2011 starts the painting. Look how great the kitchen looks with the drywall up. Light and airy and SOOOO big !

We had a big freeze - no water that we needed

Sorry to have gone so long without Blogging! We have been busy busy busy - and I have had to get up very early and I am really not thinking clearly for the entire day when I get up at 5:30am or 6:00am. About 3 weeks ago we had a week of icy cold nights where it went below freezing! If only we had gotten some rain or snow too! another dry winter without enough water. Reg covered everything in his garden, Neighbors covered precious plants in yards - but we forgot all about the plants at the new home (5402 e. Mckellips). Here is that beautiful Fiscus tree in front of the house. It needed a light bulb and a sheet around it - but we forgot all about protecting this poor tree. The left side - facing the house and sheltered on that side is OK - but the right side - facing the cold - was killed by frost ! Reg says the trunk is OK so the tree will eventually come back.

Work, work, then work some more work.

Doing this now is a lot harder then last time, when we were just kids in our late 50's. Reg is doing 10 times more than I am. My job is mostly doing the sorting , packing , tossing, piling up stuff for another carport sale, all bathroom cabinets and linen closet are done, all Christmas stuff sorted and packed to be moved (some went to Good Will , etc, etc while Reg does the really hard work. I am also trying to get all the little repair jobs done at the Enrose House before the new tenant -Rob and Kids- move in ) Here is Reg on Sunday tearing out the rest of the master sink and redoing it's plumbing while I painted the new ceiling in his workroom/toolroom ( what ever we will call it ). As soon as it is done he can move garage stuff into it. The big cabinet/counter top on wheels that he built for our downstairs laundry room ( we have a laundry room upstairs too so the downstairs laundry room just became an extension of the garage) will be moved into this room.

Now - can you see what we see ?

Reg spent 2 hours moving this wall ( middle with old fashioned flower printed wallpaper ) so when the Oven and Refrigerator are on this wall there will still be a good space to open the pantry door (on the left just out of sight) and still plenty of room to go to the right towards the dining area. Utilizing this wall for the Oven AND the Refrigerator will give us more working counterspace than we have here, in the Enrose Street house.

Can you see what we see????

New TV viewing spot...The big wall in dark corner of the living room is where Reg will put his Home theater equipment. I spent a whole day pulling out all the staples and bent over nails from the floor. Back killing job. The 2 times I sat on the floor to work I got staples in my rear end. Yes - it was funny - but still not pleasant! On Saturday Avery and Audrey came over to help us pull more staples and pound down nails. They loved it!

Guys working hard

This past week-end Reg worked two 10 hour days. On Saturday Reggie and Tyler came and helped for a couple of hours and on both Saturday and Sunday Rob came and helped all day. This was the big "Tear Down Week-end". They wound up filling 4 of those disposal bags from Home depot (Reg made a call and they get picked up - very good for large disposal in small places like our manufactured home park). Here is a picture of the "After" kitchen, see the hall way to the back on the right) and a picture of the "after" bathroom. Reg will have to get additional help to get the shower and the garden tub out of the back bedroom. (which are each in one big piece).

New House news

Today I met Rory, from Cactus Apprasals at the house. He is the most interesting person. He has his own film production company and makes movie shorts/festival length films, writes movie scripts and has worked as an extra and had speaking parts in several movies. He also knew everything about our house because he used to work at Cavco building manufactured homes. I learned so much about our house from Rory. Reg had wanted to know what the insulation was in the walls. It's 11 in the walls and 14 in the ceiling/roof. Cavco builds their homes so the floor joists go from front to back, lengthwise, there are 3 in each half of a home. For the bathroom suite/master shower Reg will need to put in some extra supports in the space under the house. I learned so much today. Here's a picture 1. of Rory looking at out electical box that is in the newly finished "Man Cave" that Reg has completed and 2. a picture of the opposite wall. He did such a great job. And the last picture is of my car in the west side driveway - where the Kitchen entry into the house is.