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March 25th, 2007

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I know it has been almost a month since my last post, but a rather dandy round of flu, sinus infections, and colds knocked us all down for 2 weekends?! We are now mostly past it all, but it was no fun while it lasted.

And speaking of no fun, I am still toiling away at the remodel project. :-) After two weekends of lost work, I spent last weekend re-wiring the room and installing recessed ceiling lights. It took most of the weekend, but the ceiling lights will make a huge difference. And since the wiring was done, I ordered up some drywall and managed to hang most of it this weekend. The room is about 12 and a half feet deep and about 23 feet wide, so I bought some big ‘ol pieces – 14 and 12 footers (to minimize the number of seams to mud and sand)!!! And let me tell you… nothing quite reminds you how out of shape you are like trying to move around a 14 foot sheet of drywall. I always managed to win the fight, but they almost flipped me inside out at least once! After spending yesterday and today putting up the big sheets, I only have the south wall left and it will use 8 foot sheets – very manageable compared to those other ones… :-)

Oh yeah… while I was working in the room, Will got his haircut today! So I thought I would throw in a picture of him too…

February 26th, 2007

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It has been nearly 3 years to the weekend that I last tackled any sizable remodel project, so I suppose it is time to descend into the darkness once again. We have decided to give our “office room” a makeover and more efficiently use the space – Will needs a playroom!

The project officially kicked off Saturday, though we (and by “we,” I mean Jessica) went through everything in the room and either donated to Goodwill or shipped it off across town to Jess’ parents for short-term storage (or at least that is the idea we sold them).

So far the project has gone fairly well, though the carpet was glued to the concrete floor (who DOES that?!?). It took a rented tile stripper (yes, that’s a tool and not an exotic mahjong dancer) to remove most of it, but at least that is behind us. And Will has already proven a tremendous help. It is going to be alot of fun doing this project with his help!

See you on the other side and I will post update pics each weekend!