House Renovation (and other stuff): August 2005

Busy Busy Busy

We have not be working on our house this week but on our rental next door. We have been busy power washing the siding off and getting it ready to paint this weekend. I came up with a few color schemes and majority ruled in favor of the one we liked the best too. We also had to take into consideration that it would match with the shingles we just bought too. I am going to post a picture of the color scheme we picked out. And by the way the house it just a sample......

Reese is still liking school. Lets keep our fingers crossed she keeps liking it for about 13 more years!!!!!!!!!

School and Last

Yesterday was a hard day for me as I sent Reese to school. I was fine till we got inside the school and I had to leave her there with all those kids. I was tear eyed and got out of there fast.

Needless to say Reese had a good time and wanted to stay there.

Derek finally emailed the pix of my new kitchen window and door we redid. Enjoy.

Refinished Door in living room from front porch

Refinished Door in Living Room

New Kitchen Window

Last days of summer

Five years has flown by as Reese turned 5 on Friday. Tomorrow she will be going to school. Seems like yesterday we brought her home from the hospital. She is so excited for school, and I can't wait for my daycare bill to go down!

We had to get a new door last night for the outside of our house. It has gotten so warped from the sun that hardly anyone could open it. So hopefully by the weekend the new door should be on.

Derek was over for Reese's party and took some pix of the refurbished door in the living room and the new windows. I will post those pix as soon as he emails them to me.

Seeing Clearly

We replaced two windows yesterday. We ordered the one for above the kitchen sink and the one for the bathroom downstairs. Jayd replaced them in no time. What a difference looking through those windows to the ones that are 100 years old. They also have low E so there is a slight tint, but that will help with cooling cost and it will not let the sun fade the floors or walls.

Derek should be coming over on Sunday for Reese's birthday so I will have him take pix of the windows then.

No rest for the Wicked

We have been busy, especially Jayd working all this overtime lately. The kids don't usually get to see him at night because he is not home yet when they have to go to bed. He makes up for it on Sundays when we go do what the kids want to do. We went fishing this week and we caught between the 3 of us (Missy, Jayd and Reese) 9 catfish in under an hour. We threw them back. We moved to another spot in the river where Jayd fished and the kids and I made a waterfall with rocks I was taking out of the river to put around my plants at home.

I am going to go register Reese for school today so then she should be all set. Less than two weeks. I have her crossing off the days on a calendar at home.

School and Stuff

I cant believe this summer is about over. Reese will be starting school pretty soon. We went school shopping on Saturday and got her stocked up.

I guess I have been busy landscaping the rental and a few places at our house. We planted a few new trees I got clearanced at Pamida. I hope they take off.

We finally got our door stripped, stained and hung that we rescued from a house being tore down. Whenever Derek gets over to our house again I will have him take a pix of it.

We also got two new windows that should be showing up any day. We will be replacing the window above the kitchen sink and the one in the downstairs bathroom. We have a plan of getting one or two new windows a year till we have the whole house replaced. I think that will take a while but oh well.

I am going to try to be a little bit more faithful from now on about updating this thing. There should be lots to tell in the coming months with Reese starting school and Jayd is supposedly going to start on my colonnades. I guess we will have to see. Stay tuned..........