Archive for August, 2007

Well, this weekend we have our first “gathering” of many people we know, commonly called a party. It went super well, with around 30 people milling about enjoying our new home. Kelley was super pleased as we used all of our spaces well. With that behind us, I spent most of the day on Sunday working on the GECK project and made substantial progress. I am planning on chipping away at that after work each day this week, so it looks like that may be a quicker deal that I had originally anticipated.

Well, we have a few updates. First, we finished the island project which is great. We have some pretty gnarly before and after pictures located on the projects page for your amusement. We also got around to updating a little bit of the upstairs bathroom. This invloved fresh paint, updated towel hangers, toilet paper holder, and overhead light fixture. We still want to update the other light fixture, but that will come in time. We also finally got the water line attached and working for the fridge. Gotta love automatic ice makers! Oh, and we got some awesome new furnature for the upstairs living room – it looks great! More to come, so stay tuned!

We just wanted to give you aquick update on some Tunis work we have been doing. The first is of Kelley’s Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is what we call the second bedroom upstairs. Kelley is using this room as a little indoor retreat where she can meditate, do some Yoga and ponder those difficult questions in life. In order to get it ready for any spiritual dabblings, we needed remove a hideous wallpaper border and paint it a soothing white (Natural White). After that work was complete it looks great! Click on this thumbnail to view a larger version.

The second big news is that of our work on the “Island” project. We have done remarkable work getting the garden portion under control – check out the projects page to view some before and after pictures.

Another little job I have been attacking is that of getting the garage organized. There was a rickety old work bench that was too deep to reach anything in the back, so I have completely ripped it out, shortened it by about a foot and am in the process of fixing a lot of the shelving more securely fastened. This should increase the garage’s userfriendliness exponetially. I’ll get a phot of it when all is complete.

Finally, we have a serious apple problem, and that is that we have Way Too Many! Our orchard has kicked it into its top gear and the apples are getting larger. They are also changing colors; a typical red. We do not know what type of apples these are, but here is a photo. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.