We're Down to One Toilet and the Kitchen Sink!!

Yesterday we tore out all the nasty cabinets and cheap tub enclosure in the what is going to be the master bathroom ~

Again, lots of spiders and mouse droppings under everything!!

We had Jordan helping us and he will be here again today to get the walls out.

Kelly got everything cleaned up so we could start work again today!

We also started tearing out the cabinets in the hallway.  This set of cabinets above will eventually be the closet inside the bathroom suite and this door in the hallway will be sealed off with the door to the bathroom coming off the bedroom you see in this picture.

Thank goodness this toilet still works!!

Well, off to tear out some walls!!

This Has Been Quite the Week!!

It started out last Wednesday when all of the electricity in the house went out about 9:00 a.m.  Now, because the wiring in this house is so bad, this has happened before but when I went to the electrical box to re-set all of the breakers, I got an electrical storm on one of them.  I left all the breakers off.  Decided, well it is time to find that electrician that I have been trying to track down for almost 2 weeks.

I left the house to go see if I could use the wifi at the library and find this Dale guy.  Kelly was headed out for breakfast.  But just as he was getting ready to leave, he heard a voice say, "check the attic."  He listened and ended up preventing an electrical fire that was starting in the attic.  We later figured out that a mouse may have eaten through the wire, causing the 20 inch long burn in the one wire and a charred cross beam with burning embers inside!!  yikes!!  Thank you to Heavenly Father for speaking to Kelly and to Kelly for listening and acting !!

I found Dale and he came over to fix the problem on Thursday let morning and is going to come back to re-wire the entire house.  But not until at least the middle of December!!  We are hoping to have all new electricity as our Christmas present!!

Then on Friday, our roofer came out and started working on the roof.  Kelly and Monte got the felt down on the western side and got the metal roofing up on that side!!

Hey, Fiddler on the Roof!!

Then on Sunday, there was sunshine in the morning and we got the felt and the metal up on the eastern side of the roof before and after Church.

Bright and early Tuesday morning Monte came by to finish the last partial roofing piece on both sides of the roof.  Here Monte is teaching Kelly how to use electric metal cutters to cut a straight line the entire length of the ribs.  We did have to cut about 8 inches off of all the metal ribs before getting them up on the roof and that was my job with hand metal shears.
 

At this point in the morning, the wind had really picked up and in order not to slide off the roof, Monte had to straddle the peak to screw the bolts into the crown piece.  We paid Monte and thanked him for his incredible help and sent him on his way.

After Monte left, we realized that the floor in the Studio was staying wet because the rain was running down the siding and under it to soak the sill plate and leak into the floor.  So we added 1" x 2" trim over the sill plates after we siliconed the sill plates.  Looks pretty crappy right now but once it is painted it will be fine.

Wednesday was sort of a down day and so Kelly decided to tackle the shelves in the kitchen!!  He was tired of them looking like this:

Only they had only gotten worse over time, just piling stuff on the shelves when there was no place else to put the stuff.

And now the shelves look like this:

Kelly is pretty happy with himself as it does look really nice but the only problem is I have to search for everything because whatever I am looking for is not in the same place it has been for the past few months.  Ya, know, change at my age can be quite difficult!!  LOL!!

Then today, we primed the back wall because we had hours of sun and warm and the rain was keeping this wall totally soaked.  It was so white, that I had to wear sunglasses while I was painting!! We got two good coats on it and it has the rest of the day to dry as we are not supposed to have any rain until late tomorrow morning.

Then, the most exciting moment of the day was when we moved my longarm quilter out to the Studio!!  It is dry enough in there now and it is becoming official!!
 

I also moved some boxes of fabric in ~

And my antique round table and chairs for when I have visitors!!

So, now, instead of the kitchen looking like this:

We now have the beginnings of something that looks a bit more like a kitchen!!

We are now waiting to see if Dale, the electrician might have a several hour window from his other jobs where he can come rough the wiring into the Studio so we can insulate, put up the bead board, paint the floor and bring out the lime green carpet from inside the house!!

Things are getting real now!!  Hoo! Hoo!

We Worked Around the Rain Today . . .

and got the front window in!!

And this is my view from inside!! Dang electrical lines!!

Now we just have to get the door on and the two vents in and we are done until Monte gets the roof completed next week!!

The Winds Raged and the Rain Came Down in Torrents . . .

and we had to go out and get up high on a ladder and nail one of the roof panels down because the wind was threatening to rip it off!!

And then after the wind and the rain we saw this ~

The rainbow went all the way across from one pot of gold to another pot of gold!!

And then more rain tomorrow!!  Loving this Bandon weather!!

Great, Full Day Before the Rain Comes Tomorrow!!

Oh, we had such a productive day today!!  Kelly and Jordan got all the cross beams up on the trusses so we could get up on the roof and then when we got up on the roof, well Jordan did, it was just too scary for me to see him up there trying to hammer in the nails on the roofing.

So, we talked with a guy this evening who will come and safely get the roof done.  It will be money well spent!

We did get the 3 windows in today too!!  Kelly is adding exterior calking over the red tape that is both for water-proofing and insulating.  I learned how to do that on YouTube!!  Thank goodness for Youtube!!

Pretty spiffy, right??

Now just to remind you, the picture above is how the front of the Studio is SUPPOSED to look.  Well, I decided I wanted a big picture window out there instead of those doors (that we were never going to use) and so today we also framed in the front wall for a 6' by 3' window!!  

Not only will it give me more light but it will give me a view of the weather and the trees and the cars zooming down the road!!  If it is not still raining tomorrow after Kelly comes home from his interview for a Sommelier position at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, we are going to try to get that window installed.  Well, why not, heck we are pros now that we have installed the three small windows on the side!!  :-))

See ya all next time!!

Getting Closer!!

Ok, So This is a Great Story . . .

I was parked in the post office parking lot yesterday when a young healthy man in his mid 20s came up to my window and asked for a dollar or two.  I told him no and he walked away.  As I pulled out of the parking lot, I thought "hmmmm, I need a third set of hands to get the roof on the studio."  I went around the block, chatted with him for awhile and asked him if he wanted a job.

He said he lived with his grandmother and so I told him I would call him later in the day.  His grandmother answered the phone and I vetted this young man through his grandmother.  I then talked to him and hired him for this morning at 10:00 a.m.  Here is what we got done today . . .

We have to take the lower row of this side of the Studio off tomorrow because once we started putting on the other side, we realized we we had installed the wrong size panels.

The rest of the trusses and the whole roof got put on today!!  Ha!! Ha!!  We are so impressed with ourselves!!  Well, except for the boo boo on the other side of the roof!!  :-))

We had a great day to work and got so much done!!  Jordan did great!!

Tomorrow is supposed to be another rain-less day and Jordan is coming over tomorrow morning to help again.