House Demolition One Piece at a Time????

Once upon a dark and gloomy night.....began our adventures into Home Repair and Remodel 1. We had a small leak into the garage at the left of the entry way. Something was going to need be done but it wasn't a high priority at the time, until Christmas night. We weren't even supposed to be home - should have been in Marysville by that evening but had decided to wait until the next afternoon. We went out to dinner at my sister-in-law's home on Christmas evening and when we go home we were greated by a flood in the back bedroom (our computer/genealogy/storage room). We actually didn't realize it until about 11:00 PM. This leak was on the opposite side of the gargage. The water went down the wall between the garage and the bedroom and came out the floorboard of the bedroom.

This the outside of our house with its newly decorated roof. We are awaiting the insurance company's findings on what will be fixed.

The bedroom itself was gutted. The only thing we left in it were the built in cabinets, behind which the water flowed to the floor, and our computer desk - workbench, which was too heavy and big to get out of the room. Again we are awaiting the estimator who will price out the repairs. Since they were able to dry this room out all that should be needed is painting and re-carpeting.

But we weren't satisfied with that level of mess - we had also scheduled our master bath to be remodeled at this very time and the contractor arrived on Monday to begin work. We are gutting the entire bathroom (escept for the vanity itself) and installing a air-jet tub, new shower, granite counter top, all new fixtures, tile floor, new mirror, and of course, paint. Above is where the shower will be with a nice seat inside.

The tub will go here now that the framing is in. As I write this they are cutting the holes in the granite for the sinks - so things are moving along. The tile is here, the tub and shower pan come next week and this project will be moving right along.

Halloween Anyone?

OK, it is a little late for Halloween but I did want to blog our grandkids at Halloween. We weren't able to get the whole crew but this is what we have:

This is Benjamin (Bennie Man) dressed as Super Mario for Halloween.

Emma decided to be the game Twister.

And Maddy decided to be a spider - I hope not a black widow.

The Keith clan only had 3 participants this year as our eldest grandson, Jonathan, decided that he was too old for this. Joshua, on the left, was a Ninja (3rd straight year), Jillian was her usual diva self and was Belle from The Beauty and the Beast. Finally Jimmy (on the right) was Jack Sparrow.

Finally we have Rustin - who was Peter Pan and had a better time doing the Trick or Treat stuff this year.