Day 372

Time to rearrange...

Now that it is warmer, we are starting to reclaim the landing room. This was a mostly unheated room during the winter months. But now we are going to start using it again. We have put up a temporary wall in that room. This is to give Zeb a small room of his own (I think he is happy to be moving out of the girls' room.) and the other half of the room will not be our dining room. It will be very nice to not have to carry the food so far from the kitchen to eat. Zeb helped me to take the table apart and move it in to the new dining area. After our first meal in the new dining room, I know that I am going to really like this.


The new dining area in the Landing room.


Here is a peek at Zeb's temporary room behind the bookshelf wall.

This move has also made a bunch of extra room in the tower (living) room. Soon I will be bringing up some more of the things that we have been missing over the winter.

Day 351 - 363

We have been really enjoying the warm weather, the grass growing, and the trees beginning to leaf. Three days ago, we bought a 32 foot ladder. :) Glad to have gotten one for the bargain we did from craigslist. But not really looking forward to climbing that ladder. I have issues going up the 6 foot ladder. This is something I will have to be working on. Hopefully we will be able to start taking a look at the gutters a bit with it. We figure we are going to only be able to do a bit of pathwork on the gutters at this time. The main focus of this year is the foundation. Anything beyond that will depend on how that turns out.

We have also been doing a little planting. We have planted a few herbs in some pots on our front porch. We won't be able to do much in the ground until we know how the foundation work will turn out. I do not want to plant something only to have them tear it out while they are working. I did get a bunch of peonies from Deseray's today. Just have to find a safe place for them. :) Can't wait to see all of the flowers blooming.

Day 350

Warm, Warm, YAY!

While we were outside I pulled out a few of the pieces of the porch to take a couple of pictures of them. These are pieces of the back porch, but we are guessing that our front porch matched the style of the back porch.


The old porch railing.

The heat has also made the bees active. Hmm, not my favorite part of the warmth. I guess I need to get that bee guy called again so he can come and get them out of the walls of the house.

Day 342-348

It is getting to feel a lot like spring. :)

Jonathan has been doing a lot of research on how he wants to set up the intercom system and the home automation system. He is going back and forth on what he wants to do. So mostly it is up in the air as of yet. When he gets a bit more of it worked out I will write about it.

I have been moving some boxes around and going through some more stuff. I am getting really tired of having so much of our stuff in boxes and unusable. This weekend I worked on going through all of the kitchen boxes. I got most of it sorted out. We we don't have up in the 2nd floor kitchen ready to use, I am sorting and putting in the cupboards in the 1st floor kitchen so that I will be able to find it if and when I need it.


We also spent some time today looking at the garage. Now if you haven't had a good look at the garage, the biggest problem is that the roof is falling down. We are not ready to redo the whole garage and make it the way we want to. But we are thinking that we are going to have to do something about it. If we fix the roof, it would be a usable space.

While we were outside we picked up a bit of trash around the garage and cut down a couple of trees. There are trees all over that need to be removed as they are growing to close to the house and garage. I have also been noticing the last couple of days that we have flowers poking out of the ground. I might have to think about moving them. Only I don't know where I should be putting them yet.

Day 341

We got a load of wood this afternoon. It should get us by and still have some left over for next fall. It seems a little more wet than it should be. But hopefully we won't have to use much. And by fall it should be just right.

Jonathan is doing research on what he needs to get our intercom system working. Hopefully we will be able to purchase what he needs to get started on that.

We are also waiting for the foundation guy. He was supposed to come and look at things last week. But we didn't hear from him.

Day 340

Saturday:

They were right about the snow and the cold. :( We are also just about out of wood. We were hoping to get by with what we had but it doesn't look like we can.

Today was a great day! We had Deseray, Jeremy and Axel over. We all had a lot of fun. :D

Next up is calling about some more wood and trying to finish up the landing room.

Day 338

We have not yet let Zeb sleep in his semi-finished room yet. It is still a bit on the cold side out there. We need to seal up some of these cold spots and finish insulating the ceiling. Today was very warm (almost 70 degrees), but tomorrow and Saturday they are telling us it is going to snow and be in the 20-30's. First day of Spring on Saturday with the possible 5 inches of snow. :( Not looking forward to that.