House Projects

There are a few projects around our house that have been put on the back burner since, well we moved in. Not anyone’s fault, just have continued to put them off. For instance the countertops in our house our concrete. Not just one piece of concrete, but several that the seems have to be caulked together. After about a week after install, the caulk started pulling apart from the countertops. Now, a friend of ours did the install so we weren’t going to call and complain, and after building the house, figured it was something we could tackle. 1 ½ years later, it is finally complete! Randy was on the road a couple weeks ago and I pulled out the old stuff and sealed it up good. Go me!

So this weekend, after a headed discussion on how we had “nothing to do” we started Friday night and worked until Monday. We cleaned out the garage and started taping and texturing. We called in reinforcements…Josh…as he just got done tape and texturing his entire basement. He had all the tools so we got started. If anyone is thinking this might be a good career change…think again. This job sucks! It takes for ever, hard on your back, and working on the ceiling, forget it. I keep reminding myself that it will all be worth it in the end. Since we are having the rehearsal dinner at the house, the garage is our backup plan if for some reason it decides to rain in August. Another couple nights of work and it will be ready for primer and paint.

That wasn’t all. We have had landscaping lights in our storage shed since we moved in. Last year after the yard was planted, we worked on our landscaping. Another career change that I wouldn’t recommend! Once we finished up with planting and moving rocks, we didn’t want to install landscaping lights, and they were put on the back burner as another one of those someday projects. Now we didn’t buy just solar landscaping lights that just stick in the ground and your done. Oh no we bought the lights that need electricity to run. Sunday we started early, put everything together and got going. We laid out the lights and started playing in the rocks. Each light had to hook to the wire and ran to the next light and the next light, and then hooked up to the electrical box. It was a long day, but by 9:00 pm everything turned on like it was suppose to and we had another project crossed off the list!

Not only did we get the garage started and landscaping lights installed, we also put a walk way down from out cement pad to the patio in the back of the house, finished painting the trim on our storage shed in the backyard and worked on laundry piles – even after the dryer took a crap.

We need more 3 day weekends!