The Master Bathroom is . . .

being prepared to get the plumbing done!!

Kelly worked for hours today removing the toilet and plugging off the old plumbing and creating big holes in the floor to allow the plumbers to place the new plumbing on Monday.

This is the old toilet.  For some stoopid reason, they had it set at an angle ~

Kelly removed the toilet ~

And opened a hole for  the plumbers to get into.

See the little white garbage can off to the left upper part of the picture?  That is where this old, nasty, leaking water heater lived.  That came out and we need to fix the water soaked floor under where it used to be.

This is where the old tub was located and we are going to have a 4 foot wide by 5 foot long walk in shower there!!

Then this is where the old sink was located and Kelly got that old plumbing removed!!

And here is sneak peek at the back of the new vanity sink that is going in the master bath!!

More next week!!

We Have a Fun New Attraction Here in Bandon . . .

that comes right by our house a few times a week!!

This is Lily and she is a purebred Clydesdale!!

YAY!! The First Door Inside the House . . .

is up and ready for a doorknob!!  Dang that means I have to go shopping!!

We both had that rare afternoon when neither of us was working and so we took advantage of the situation and  . . .

We now have a door going into the Guest Suite!!  Pretty fun!!

A Long Due Update . . .

Kelly and I have been scrambling these past two months to just keep ahead of the game of life.  As such, nothing major is being worked on.  But we do have a couple of on-going projects that need to be updated!!

The first one is the back 40 (LOL - really only a 1/4 of an acre).  Slowly but surely, we have weed-eated and mowed so that the yard went from this ~

To this!!

Also, our little path from the parking area to the Cottage where Martha, my long arm, resides continues in earnest.

There were so many rocks in the soil that Kelly is having to shovel out the dirt and sift it to get the rocks out.  A long and tedious project!!

The dirt that has been sifted is beautiful and will find a home in other projects!!

The other continuing project, that is now complete, is a the grey water system Kelly is putting in for our new washing machine!!

First he dug a trench that is 12 inches deep, 10 inches wide and 24 feet 9 inches long (Kelly knew exactly!!) from the house out to the barrel that will collect the drained water.

Then he perforated the drain pipe and laid it for the drain ~

He then connected it to the pipe in the house that sits behind the washer ~ As you can see, there was a large concrete step and slab of concrete right where he needed to run the pipe, so he had to work around the concrete.

Next, he had to dig a hole that was about 28" in diameter and 2 feet deep to put the drain barrel and rocks.

This is the blue barrel that went into the hole.

Kelly cut it down to a bit shorter than the 2 feet, perforated the barrel with drain holes, put a layer of large rocks into the hole that were in the pathway in the front yard and ~

Then lowered the barrel into the hole and filled it with the remaining large rocks!!

Then around the outside of the barrel he used a lot of the smaller rocks from other projects to fill in the hole.

A friend of our's, who is a metal fabricator, made a steel lid with handles to cover the entire hole ~

Kel put the lid on the bin and covered it with dirt.

He also covered the entire trench with the sifted dirt from the pathway in the front yard ~

And now we just need to pack the dirt down by watering the area and compacting the dirt and then reseed it with grass!!

And this is the reason Kelly labored so hard for weeks on the grey water system!! TA! DA!

I wanted a washer and dryer that would be large enough to hold large quilts and the one guy that delivered them and set them up said that he had been a delivery guy for 20 years and had NEVER seen a washer and dryer this big!!  It is soooooooo nice not to have to go to the laundromat!!

I'll try to post more often!! 

Quilting Ladies Coming and Going . . .

from their cars across the uneven grass and to the Cottage.  I recruited Kelly to help me in another money free project to make a concrete block walkway from the parking to the cottage.  Well, the digging is the money-free part!!

When he got to one point in the path, he came across at least a million rocks!!

I got the job of removing the rocks from the path and carrying them away to another part of the yard where we are going to use those rocks in our grey water drainage system.

Next we are going to make our own 24" x 12" blocks because to buy blocks is going to cost us an arm and a leg.

Stay tuned . . .

Proudly Flying Our Flag Today!!

HAPPY FLAG DAY!!

Time for Some Money-Free Jobs While the Sun Shines!!

I have been wanting to use the tiller attachment to our weed eater for awhile now and so this afternoon we got out to try it.

Kelly said he didn't think it would go through the grass, so I dug down to see if we could sneak up on the grass.  I thought maybe it might break up the grass . . .

Here is the grass I dug out.

Here is the tiller moving from the dug out hole up onto the grass!!  Yay!!  It goes through the grass.  Kelly is strong enough to go pretty deep on the first pass.

Me, on the other hand, can't go as deep so I just skimmed the grass off the top on the first go through . .

And then on the second run pass went deeper.

Here is the little cutie with a big heart!!

It's not real fond of rocks!!  Mmmmm, I think he will be called Richard the Lion-Hearted!!  And here is George watching over our work this afternoon!!  Look how beautiful he is weathering!!

Oh, boy, after I get a quilt off Martha tomorrow I will be back out in the garden!!  I have big plans for Richard!!

The Scary Bathroom . . . .

is getting less scary all the time.

We had to take out the nasty window that would have been behind the shower enclosure.

And then close up the hole on the outside.

 

Here is the new vanity and the new toilet.  They are both hooked up and working!!  Whoo!!  Whoo!!

Oh, and part of the hardwood floors are installed!!  Man just that small section that I did get put in was such hard work.  The floor in the bathroom is not perfectly flat and that makes for great difficulty in installing the floor.

This is the new shower head!!  Just can't wait!!

And there is electrical in the bedroom next door so I can plug in my hair dryer and use it in the bathroom!!

Next is going to be putting up green board around the tub and build a shelf at the back of the tub for shampoo and all the other bathroom goodies.  And then it will be my turn to tile the tub surround. This is the tile that we purchased ~

I think it will look great with the white bead board and will compliment our beach look!!  And the goal is to have it all done and ready for showers the end of May!!

It is so fun seeing things come together again!!  Until next time!!