WELL USED COLLAR TIES

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Here are the pictures I promised.


















Here are our African mementos from Barry and Edna and Dwight.







And here is my angel collar tie. There are actually more up now--hanging on the side of the tie.






























This is the way the tops of our cupboards look.




















Frank made shelves for his office mementos. Notice all the clocks. There are one dozen in the study alone.




He was able to put metal on the rest of the roof last Saturday when the temperature climbed to 51*. The low last night was 9*. Brrrr!

MORE MOVED IN PICTURES

DECEMBER 6, 2010

I will probably keep this blog going for some time, but it won't be every Monday as it had been. We still have lots of trim work to do. As things change, I will try to post some pictures.

We have also spent two separate weekends away from home. My mother celebrated her 95th birthday on November 21st. Wava, Don, Phyllis, and I, along with our spouses took her out for supper. Tim and Maggie, who live in CA, couldn't make it. When we took her home, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren stopped in to help her celebrate some more. Here are pictures of we four siblings with Mom, and another of Mom and me.

This weekend we journeyed east to visit Dad King. He seems to be doing well emotionally. He is even beginning to carve again. He is presently working on an eagle.

The metal we ordered arrived. Frank has been concerned about having nice days to work on the roof after it came. He has been able to do some work. In fact, he was able to lay metal beyond the second sky light. Now he waits more nice weather.

A day or two later, our world looked like this! It hasn't stopped since, and is not supposed to for several more days.

With the finishing project completed, Frank installed the pocket door in to the study, and the closet doors in that room.

The one thing we have discovered since we moved in is a roomy basement.

And room in the garage. We can even get both cars in!

We have this much stored in the basement yet. It's mostly books, photos, pictures (to hang,) canning jars, upholstery supplies/machine, and knick-knacks.

I still have no pictures of all the things we've placed on the collar ties. I'll save that for another day.

MOVING THINGS AROUND

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Frank said that I wasn't being honest in my last post. Since I want to preserve my integrity, here is what I avoided when I took those pictures!

We keep bringing more of our belongings into the main part of the house, and finding places for them. We even went up to John and Tonya's house, and brought a car load of things down from the attic. It was mostly winter clothes. That meant sorting and restoring some things. At this point, the house looks like this.

Here is the great room.......

the pantry.....................

and the study.

This is Daisy's favorite place--in front of the

fire place.

We have even done a little decorating!

I see that we've missed either taking or putting on the computer some of the pictures that would bring us up to today's date. I will get them, and do a new post in a few days.

MOVING......IN !!!!!

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

While I continued to sand, finish, resand, and refinish the frames and trim, Frank continued to work on cutting and splitting firewood. Frank found a huge sassafras tree about 60' tall and 18 or more inches in diameter. I didn't know that they grew that large! It was hollow, and he found these growing in the center of the tree!

Tuesday our counters did come--even early. They are beautiful! Since it had been on sale, we had upgraded to Corian. They came in three pieces. The first went from the refrigerator, around the corner, and continued to the stove. The second went from the stove, around the corner, and to the end of the cabinets. It includes the sink. The third piece was the breakfast bar. We had them drop it down to table height. No use buying bar stools, when we already have eight wooden chairs. They went out to their truck, to saw the exact length for the back splash.

Frank called for the inspector to come. He was off work, hunting. His boss told us to go ahead and move in without the occupancy permit.

So......Thursday was a big day. Frank brought a trailer up to John and Tonya's house with one of his lawn tractors. He filled the trailer with our belongings and brought them down to our house. I kept finding containers, filling them, and he kept taking them down. A Friend friend from Morgantown helped him. By lunch time, we had everything down except our hanging clothes, my houseplants, and our things which are up in the attic of their garage. We only brought a few pieces of large furniture up from the basement. John went home, and we began to find homes for everything. Of course, it was a mess.

The first order of business was to find all the pieces of our bed. Tonya helped. They were in at least 6 different places. We decided that we were moved when we could sleep in our own bed again.

Since we had been buying groceries together, Tonya went through the food stuff, and divided it. She and I put liner on the shelves and tried to find places for all of it. We have piles and baskets going back and forth as we sort what belongs to whom. We decided to put things away before we bring more things into the main part of the house.

Every day it looks better around here.

We have gone to the attic and the basement to find things we want. Frank found lots of his retirement gifts, and then made homes for them.

Frank set up both desks. We bought a new computer desk, and set up both computers.

We will be working on the house for some time to come--mostly trim work. Yesterday the final inspection was done. and we were given our occupancy permit. Basically, he asked if all the plumbing worked, and checked out the sign off on the electrical work! He did the paper work, then he talked hunting.

We canceled Frank's cell phone, but will keep mine. Since my birthday was Friday, I decided that I received the best birthday present ever--a new house! We're settling in. Come see us.

MOVING FORWARD

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I was chided for not showing you a storm that blew through here the other week. It brought some severe weather to these parts.

And this is what happened on the 6Th--our first of the season.

Frank continued putting metal on the roof though Wednesday, when he ran out of metal--with one more section of the main roof to do. He spent the next day trying to figure out exactly what he needed yet. We will probably buy the rest from a local lumber store--hadn't realized that we could do that before.

I put the paint things away from doing the study. (By the way, I found out the hard way that not all ceiling paint is created equal! I ended up with a gray patch on a white ceiling, and had to purchase other paint and try again.) Since Frank cut the frames and trim for the study door and the closet in that room, I went back to sanding. I have also learned that not all sand paper is created equal. I'm having to change sand paper every board or two.

I kept working on filling cabinets. I stained the doors, etc., and started putting finish on the doors, frames, and trim.

Frank laid the carpet in the study.

He went on to put left overs on the stairs. (Looking down to the landing)

He set up my computer at our house, and found and connected our DVD recorder.

Our new stove came, and Frank installed it. It's nice not to have to do everything with an electric skillet or the microwave.

He has been cleaning up outside our house, and has stated fixing the lane for the winter.

He has also started cutting and splitting wood for winter. We have lots down and dry from clearing for both houses.

This is also the week Frank had trouble with electronic gadgets. His camera and cell phone died. He was able to put the SIM card in an older phone, so his number still works. He bought a new camera. It can take this kind of shots.