Day 169

This evening we continued to work on our wiring. Jonathan pulled the wires down through our 'wiring closet' to the basement. He stapled them into place and got them ready to be connected in the 2nd floor tower room. While he was working on this, I started connecting the outlets to the wires we had put in all of the boxes. Soon we will have power and lights in the room.

We are getting a little worried about the coming cold weather. Tonight and the next night the low will be 37 or 38 degrees. And the high will only be in the low 50's. We need to get that wood stove hooked up and ready very soon.

Day 168

We stayed home and watch "The Sound of Music" with the kids. :)

Day 167

Today the kids and I went over to the house to work. I started the day out by mowing the lawn. Then as I was waiting for them to come and haul the dumpster away, I decided to haul down as much plaster as I could from 3rd floor. The kids and I got most of the plaster (that we had already knocked down) taken out to the dumpster.

This evening with Jonathan we did some more wiring. This time it wasn't electrical wiring. But Cat5 for all of our networking needs. Some of this wire will be used for our home automation. We got most of the room wired and ready to go. Now all we have to do is hook everything up.


The blue wire is the CAT5 wire that we were working on. It will be how we control our house.

Day 166

Today we worked on wiring in the tower room. We got wire to all of the outlet boxes. We still need to connect them and then bring the wire up from the basement.

We also got the boxes on the ceiling for the lights. We are going to have a ceiling fan/light and two other lights in this room.


In this picture the black pipe on the right was for the original gas lights in the house. The fixture hanging from the scary black wire on the left was from the light fixture that had been in the room. The shiny silver box in the middle is where we are going to be hanging our ceiling fan from.

At home in Hickman, Jonathan was working on some of the home automation things. He wants to get the box ready to put in the wall in the Tower room. But first he has to get everything soldered and ready to go.

Day 165

Mom and Dad are here on their way back from the hospital in Omaha. We are having some more wood delivered this morning.

Jonathan and Dad spent much of the day getting all of the pipes out of the floor and wall. There was a lot of unneeded pipes coming through the floor, as this space had been a bathroom and a kitchen. It looks a lot better. Then they built the frame wall that we will run the pex through for the radiators and also the electrical wires. We are almost ready to go.

Here is the wall. The hole in the floor goes all the way to the basement where all of the wires and pex will come from.

Mom and I were on clean up duty, hauling things out to the dumpster. We were also sorting through the boxes. We started moving the girls' things to their room and Zeb's to his. Then we were attempting to organize the others so that we will be able to find things when we need them. We also got a shelf set up and filled with the kids' craft things. :) Now Melinda will be able to play with Play-Doh.

Day 164

We are off to Lincoln to do some grocery shopping.

Day 163

The kids and I went over to the cool park this morning. I took a bunch of pictures there it was a lot of fun. Then we went over to the house to work. I finished getting all of the boxes and tubs moved out the the Dining room. :) Now we are ready to get the smelly, wet carpet out of there.

After supper, Jonathan and I got the carpet cut into smaller pieces and carried out to the dumpster. YAY the house already smells better!