Monday, August 24, 2009

This Weekend...

Wow! Where did the weekend go?? Seems like I worked all weekend on the pool house, but it doesn't look like I got much done... :(

Did start getting the tile done, but mostly just did drywall... Soon! Soon!

Friday, August 21, 2009

The Project From Hell...

Yeah, I am trying to finish this thing that I started what, two years ago?? Not that I have been working on it ALL the time, I do go for months sometime where I don't touch it and of course take breaks from it to do things like: build a deck; tile my office; remodel the kitchen; watch movies; etc; etc...

I am back to ONLY working on it now though because I am nearly done with it!! When you are doing things like this, you know you are reaching the end when the drywall is going up and the tile for the floors and exterior bottom walls is nearby just waiting to be installed!

This is basically the mess I am working in right now! Drywall is incredibly messy!! Have I also mentioned how much I absolutely DETEST drywall??

I hang it, and the neighbor kid, Zac, is taping, mudding and sanding! So there is THAT to be thankful for. While he is doing that, and I get far enough ahead of him with the hanging part, I am finishing up the last bits of plumbing, doing final hookups, etc...

This is one of the reasons I DETEST drywall, it literally gets ALL over everything!! "Why don't you just cover all that up Matthew?", you might ask. Because while he is sanding, etc I am USING all that stuff!! :)

Shower room ready for Zac!

It is basically almost all the way done though, I've just got to turn the water on (which requires the final 10 feet in the garage to tap into the main water line) and make sure there are no leaks before I can finish all the drywall on the bottom where there is plumbing, but HOPEFULLY by Sunday evening, that will have happened and the drywall should be complete!!!

We'll see how well that works out... :) I did get the new satellite receiver, flat screen TV and phone for it as well, so that makes me want to get it done as quickly as possible as well!! I would like to be sitting up there with my laptop and have the ability to watch TV SOON!! Before winter sets in... Of course now that we have the heater working, we could feasibly be using it through December...

Monday, August 10, 2009

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Wow!!

I can't believe I haven't blogged in that long, I think that is a record... We were on vacation though, and I didn't blog then either... Facebook has taken over the blogging... I need to keep it up though, because my kids love to read my blog, and it makes for a good 'journal' of sorts. Anyway...


I finally finished the plumbing in the pool house, two years later than I would have liked to...

I ALSO have started hanging drywall!!! So we are nearly there!! Wow, I can't wait to get this done!!

So yeah, that's what's going on here, the kids start school week after next. I've had a tutor here for the past three weeks teaching Chance because the whole homeschool thing didn't quite work out. He'll be fine though, he's a smart boy. So yeah, that's about it. I'll try not to wait a month to blog again... :)