New Stove

The new stove is in! Boy, did it ever give The King and Mike trouble! The store where we bought it neglected to give them a little bag full of parts that they needed to install it!

Tomorrow I will be trying out the oven!! It matches the new dishwasher we bought in December.

More lights!

The King and his friend from Brooklyn were busy today installing more lighting. We have these on 3 corners of the outside of the house.










This is outside the garage door. It is a motion sensored light.














This is in the laundry room. It's bright in there now!
















We have 3 of these. One in the pantry and 2 in the hallway from the kitchen to the garage.
I think all of the lights are installed now.

The list is getting smaller!

Laundry Room

The King ripped up the floor in the laundry room. There were some ceramic tiles in there but we decided to put down stick on tiles instead. The photo is of new wood.

The tiles are down. He has to put a frame around the doorway to the pantry and then finish the baseboard.

This is a close up of the tile. Fake slate! It's pretty and feels good to the bare feet. Won't be expensive to replace if there is an accident with the washer....

Entry Light

I almost forgot to post this photo. This is the light that hangs in the entry. We have had a one bulb Temporary Construction Light Fixture.

Like this one (since 1995).

I think the new one is so pretty and it throws a lot of light! Although, we have not come into the house when it is dark to see the whole effect.

More work photos

We have a new doorbell! Actually we had a "doorbell" before but it was never wired up to a "bell". We let my mom pick from the 2 sounds since she is the one that has to listen to it! She picked the ding dong sound. The other one was a westminster chime. Not one I want to hear alot.

The King put on a new door to the garage. The original door started rusting and when we redid the sidewalk we had to take the bottom of the door off. It looks nice. The half circle window lets pretty much light into the garage. It also matches the half circle windows on the front of the house. The King painted it white. Looking good!

He also hung the 3 outside lights on the back of the house. They are a little 70's looking! But they through a lot of light!

What's been happening!

We have been so busy. I am homeschooling Litle P until we leave. She started on Sept. 1st. So far it is going as expected since we are using the same program as last school year, K-12 thru Agora Cyber Charter School.

The King has been busy working on the house in his spare time. He should be closing out the business in the next week or so. We still have not heard if the buyer's buyer got their loan. Does it always take so long??? I guess the bank does not care that other people are waiting on them to ok the loan.

The rebuilt deck....

This is the back yard where the bird pen was and a burn pile . All gone. It won't be long until the grass (or weeds) start growing.

Well, it looks like...

our buyer, my mom, finally got a yes from her buyer. Tomorrow they will be signing some papers. Her buyers must do a house inspection. Do I say we actually sold our house? We haven't signed anything yet.
We have been working on the deck. We have almost all the boards on the top done but we must get some more lumber.
It's hot here right now, up in the 90's. It's not too bad if you are near a fan!

Rebuilt Deck

Yesterday we went to the store and got some lumber. Since it looks like my mom will be buying our house The King has decided to rebuild the deck for her.

We got the frame up. We had it half done when we realized that the new boards were all different measurements. What is up with that??? So we had to take it apart and trim the pieces and put them back together.

Tomorrow we will start putting the boards on the top. It is supposed to HOT!!!

Bathroom Floor

Two weeks ago we decided to redo the floor in the bathroom. We (mostly him!) tore up the tiles and most of the subfloor. What a job!

On Saturday, the King had time to finish the job! Now we need to do the grouting!

The grouting is complete and dry. Later to day I will wash down the walls and the floor. The King needs to put one more coat of paint on the walls and install new lighting and finish off the doors. I can put everything away. I am so tired of the junk all over the bedroom! Another room done! Another step closer to our dream.