Day One Hundred Fifty-Two - Paint and Hardwood

Last week the painter did his thing.

This is our bedroom in Pommery Mustard, whatever that means. Under the black plastic is the hardwood floor Nic has started installing. Sorry you can't see it, maybe next week.
The lower walls are painted Timeless Terra Cotta. I've always been a sucker for clay pots. When Nic trims out the windows and doors the header will run all the way around the room, not just on top of the windows and doors. By the way, there are NO polka dots in my house; apparently my camera lens is spotted.
I don't think I have posted any photos of the bathroom yet, so here is one. I was standing in the doorway at the foot of the stairs, just inside the front door. The door to the far right of the photo goes into the laundry room. The opening straight ahead is my HUGE walk in shower.
This cute kid is practicing opening the front door to guest. We hope you plan to come see us when we get the house done.

90th Birthday and Youth Deer Hunt

This past weekend Nic, Alex and I traveled to Carrollton to help my Mama celebrate her 90th birthday. We took the opportunity to get a photo of Mama and Daddy and their "girls".

In the front row is Mama and Daddy, of course. In the back row from the left is June Owen Newman, Jeanne Owen Holmes, Kay Owen Wood, and Ruth Lam Owen. The party did not degenerate to the point that Ruth wore a high fixture as a hat, I promise.

While in Carroll County, Nic and Alex participated in the youth deer season. They didn't see anything on Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon they saw four deer but they were too far off to shoot. So Sunday morning, after exterminating the wasp and nest from the deer blind, Alex shot this nice young buck. Yum yum, good eatin'. Now I ask you, who do you think looks happier, dad or daughter?

Josephina, an American Girl

Rylee decided that for Haloween she wanted to dress up as Josephina from the American Girl doll/book series.

I think we did pretty good.

Rylee's Chickens

I look at our chickens and know that they have grown but it is kind of hard to tell when you see them every day so I decided to compare a photo from the day we got them....

To a photo from a couple of weeks ago....
Tony planted wheat seed as nurse crop for grass. The chickens were very appreciative.

This guy looks like the rooster on the wallpaper border in the rental house kitchen. I think he is a very fine specimen.

Day One Hundred Forty Seven - Sheet rock, etc

A lot has happened during the past 44 days since I last posted. The plumbing and electrical rough was completed and passed inspection. The dry wall has been hung and taped, mudded, sanded, etc.

Now I will take you on a tour of the house.

I'll start with what may be my favorite room in the house, my sewing/weaving studio. This was taken from the laundry room door. The outside door is to the left and the kitchen is to the right.

The great room taken from the dining area. There will be stained glass inserts in the two high fireplace wall windows. The door you see is the front door and faces east. Out of view on the right is the staircase and on the left is a set of doors to the porch on the north side of the house.

The dining area taken from in front of the fireplace. The kitchen is on the left on the other side of the half wall. There will be a built-in china cabinet on the dining room side of the half wall.

The loft/bedroom. The doorway on the upper left is the half bath. The French doors upstairs open onto a small balcony. The lower French doors and double windows are in the studio.

The house really does have a kitchen. In the above photo you are actually looking across the kitchen to the loft and studio.

I wanted to include one photo of the fall color. The foliage really looked much better than it does in this photo.

New Granddaughter

Tony and I have a new granddaughter, number four for us; number one child for Sus and Bryce.

Meet Miss Maisy Lucia, born August 30. Seven pounds 14 ounces; 19.5 inches long.

Doesn't she (Susie) look incredibly happy? She did good!!

Day One Hundred Three - I Found My Camera

O.K. so here's the deal... I lost my camera, several days (maybe weeks) ago. After several gentle nudges about updating my blog I made an all out effort to locate the camera. For about a week, I looked everywhere I could think of, most place several times. This afternoon I spied my Pendleton plaid backpack in a large stone jar behind my computer chair. I can't remember the last time I actually used that backpack and hadn't checked it for the camera. But even though I knew the camera was't in the backpack, I looked anyway. Well low and behold, there was my camera! So I downloaded the pictures that were on it.

This is the half bath in our bedroom. Does anyone find it amusing that it looks like a privy? Or an I the only person who sees that?

Let's see, since I last posted I have ordered the windows; the bathroom plumbing; and the range hood. I have looked at lots and lots of paint chips; floor tiles; countertop materials; and lighting fixtures. I have met with the HVAC guy and tomorrow I will meet with the stone mason and the hardwood guy. It is pretty exciting to be able to tell these guys when we will need them.

I will take the camera up to the house tomorrow and take new pictures. Nic has done a lot of plumbing and electrical stuff that doesn't change the way the house looks. But we did get the concrete porch floor poured and Nic got the last porch roof built. It is the porch that is most noticeable as you drive up to the house so having it built really changed the look of the house. That porch roof also forms the small deck off our bedroom, its fun to see what the view is going to be from that deck, but it is kind of scary without a rail.