ARRR! Some great work they be doing

The journey to the new house started about two years ago, when folks removed Claren's play pen to get the site ready. It took more getting ready, but we are much closer to the end than to the beginning.

Barry was here this weekend for Memorial Day, and he and Miked worked all day Saturday and Sunday on trim, tile prep work and more. One evening after they finished, Miked headed back out with door hardware.

While here, Barry took the opportunity to sing the praises of Sid Meier's Pirates computer game. It is awesome, and in its and Barry's honor I will use pirate language for the rest of this post.

Barry and Miked poured levelin' compound in t' laundry room and upstairs bathroom. Cousin Danny, who be doin' t' paintin' and asayed me t' colors be nice, heard about t' levelin' compound, turned t' his dad and said with a laugh: Remember levelin' compound? Apparently, they had a tough day when they leveled a bathroom floor.

This be an important and delicate construction tool. It be not basically an egg beater.

After t' levelin', I believe t' tile can be laid.

K is ready to move in

We'll get right to the pictures because they are good freakin' stuff.

She is missing a doorknob and a few minor details like a bed, but K's room is painted!

She also needs outlet covers and lights, but they are coming. Everything has been ordered except plumbing stuff. YEAH!

This is the too-dark guest room. Actually, it looks nice, just not as cool as the Matt-pad green.

These are the big welcoming guest room doors.

The newel post might be the coolest feature yet.

The bannisters are done, too.

WHOO! You know that scene in It's a Wonderful Life where Jimmy Stewart, back from never existing, runs through town, just yelling YAY at various scenes. That is what I feel like doing for each of these pictures.

This is the pantry door, with a blackboard top. Grandma Jeanne still misses the blackboard that got taken out in a renovation of her kitchen.

This is the laundry room door. If you look close, you can see etching that says Laundry and has a wash basin. 

This is an outlet Emily installed. She claimed she did the outlets in the attic and the second-floor bedrooms and they all work. BUT ...

There are no pictures of her installing those outlets, are there? Like Miked is doing her on the back porch. Sure, Emily will claim that it is because she is the one taking pictures, but whatever. (Actually, to give Emily some props, I think she put in the screens on all the windows.)

YAY! This is an outlet in the ceiling of the ramp.

And this is an outdoor outlet with a cover and some fancy pants acronym.

More lights, trim and apologies

I am becoming almost as bad as Emily at updating the blog. Well, not really, of course. But I am late posting these and I am sorry.

This is the light on the back of the garage.

Here are more front-porch lights.

These are the huge lights on the front of the garage. They are awesome.

And even the back porch has lights. We are getting quotes on all the interior lights, but in the meantime:

Miked is ripping through the trim in the rooms. 

I believe he outlined the door frames but someone else put in the door.

Pretty fancy.

I know one of the little D's rooms is mostly done. That was yesterday, though.