Tuesday, April 22, 2008

House work

To celebrate Mason's birthday on Saturday we had a demolition crew (namely: Dad, Trevor, Brett & Stephen, with a little help from Elise, Mason & Sammy) take out the walls and windows in my room. What is a birthday (or any event, for that matter) without a project? What do people do when they don't have house projects? Is there life without them?

Anyhow, they got the walls down, the windows and closets out, new electrical, insulation, and windows in, as well as hung sheetrock! Stephen and I finished nailing the sheetrock up last night, and I got blisters - ouch! It's been a long time since I've pounded sheetrock - since the family room, I think. It is great to be on the last room in the house; every other room has been re-done. There are only a couple of walls that are original to the house, and even they have been re-wired, textured and painted. Sigh...sometimes it kills me that we are going to be leaving just as we get the house how we like it. Maybe I can talk Stephen into waiting to go back to school until next year.

I just have to say that I come from a very creative family. My sister-in-law is a photographer, my older brother invented an awesome thing (I can't say more since the patent hasn't gone through yet...and I don't know what it is called...), Elise sings, my mom does calligraphy, my grandpa writes, and my brothers create their own power tools. Enjoy the redneck table saw!

Brett & Trevor

2 comments:

Karin said...

That is one scary, if creative, table saw!

There, I left my very first comment on a blog! Welcome to the 21st century!

Unknown said...

There is life beyond house projects. It is kind of nice to just relax in the evening!