Sunday, February 25, 2007

It's Snowy Here

We are getting some snow this morning. Debbie and Seth wanted to go out to play for a while...


Saturday, February 24, 2007

Yard Work

Dad came over this afternoon and helped me prune the crepe myrtle. We gave it a pretty good haircut. Now it should be fairly easy to maintain. It will require some work every winter, but not much more than that. We also did some other minor pruning, but not much.

Seth is getting his bath now, and will go to bed after that.

We expect a little winter weather tomorrow.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

11 Weeks to go

There are only 11 weeks left to go until the new baby arrives. The time has passed so quickly. Debbie tells me every day how active the baby is. "She's kicking me here or there." Last night I think she (the baby) might have had the hiccups. You could actually see Debbie's tummy jumping.

We are starting to think of things like car seats and whether the bouncy seat will fit on the table like it did for Seth. Mostly we are just doing things the way we always do.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Changing Rooms

This weekend we moved some furniture. It was the great room shuffle of 2007. My office furniture is now in the new office, the guest room is now in my previous office and the Crib and changing table are in the old guest room. New names according to Seth: Baby's room, Nana's room, and Dad's office. We are happy with all three.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

New Office complete

Victor decided to come and finish the floor today so the new office is done. It took four weeks. That's not bad.

Here are some photos:

Standing in the basement door looking across the room.


Same position, showing the shop door a little to the right


Looking back toward the basement door from the opposite corner

A little weather slows prgress

We've had a little winter weather over the last few days. The TV weather folks had a good time projecting doom and gloom and dire consequences, but in the end we got about 2 inches of snow and ice. The major part of the storm passed to the north of us.

However, the little bit of precipitation was enough to keep Victor from showing up on Tuesday morning, when the roads were fine, and Wednesday, when they were somewhat icy. The upshot is that there is still about 6 feet of floor to be installed before I can begin moving furniture into the finished office.

Hopefully he will make it today.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Progress on Basement

The basement is nearly finished. Only the floor remains to be installed. We are putting down a laminate floor that should be fairly durable. Victor is going to deliver the materials today and will install the floor Monday and Tuesday.

I am happy with the progress. We got all of the boxes back on the storage shelves yesterday.

Here are some early construction photos.


Saturday, February 03, 2007

The Big Boy Bed

Here is Seth in his new bed! He slept in it for the first time last night. Right now the mattress and box spring are sitting on the floor until I am done refinishing the bed frame.