Not for the Faint of Heart

It has been rainy here so taking a dog for a walk up the road seemed a little too risky.  I decided to walk around the property and I found a skeleton of a deer.  I find this fascinating.  So much so that I brought the skull home.  Not sure what to do with that.  I knew it was a deer because we have another deer headed back to the earth so I compared the two skulls.   

Little scary to run up on

This is the little guy by the house that I compared to

Evolution of our Bedroom

The old set up

Yuck!

Dark purple - a risky choice

Get rid of old carpet

Cleared out and ready to move in

A bit smaller than we had before so I do not get a nightstand :(

Pretty Duvet Cover - You can see why I chose purple...brings out the little color in the cover

Company for Breakfast

What a treat it was this morning to have breakfast with these guys.  One is not unusual in the morning but three bucks was just beautiful.  The two younger guys were hitting and locking their antlers together.  Great way to enjoy my morning tea.

The Details

I have been scrubbing and scrubbing on the stained tile and have had no luck in cleaning it.  So I had ProClean Services come and work on our nasty tile.  I was thrilled when they were done.  THRILLED!  The moment Ryan got home from work I was raving about how great it looked and wanted him to check out all the rooms that were cleaned.  To my disappointment he does not get as excited about cleaning as I do.  This is not the first time I have felt this disappointment.  He said that he just does not really notice the details.  THE DETAILS?!?!  This was a complete makeover in my mind, not details.  Maybe you can be excited for me.  I will feel much cleaner taking a shower now.

Finishing Up

My mom came back on Sunday and helped us finish up - at least finish up for the weekend.  We touched up paint, pained the bookshelf, tore up carpet...

Master bedroom carpet removal

Here are some before and afters

Master Bedroom

Office

 Samara taking it easy in a freshly painted hallway

Living Room

The first BI MONTHLY work day

Just kidding, maybe annual work day.

The line up

My Mom - mom
My Brother and Sister in Law - Jeff and Madeline
Ryan's Mom - Kami
Ryan's Brother - Eric
Ryan and Me
A surprise appearance by Ryan's Uncle - Den

The goal of the day was to paint and clean.  A lot of work got done!

Ryan's uncle came up to look at the well and he gave Ryan a bit of info on the lay of the land

Possibly in this image Den is telling Ryan how to make the pond not look like a dirty puddle surrounded by rocks.

While Dennis was doing well work and telling Ryan secrets about how to care for this land, Eric worked on the trench.  No trench digger - he just dug for a while.  Everyone else was painting inside.
Everyone had a room to work on

Eric painting in the kitchen

My mom in the master bedroom.  LOOK AT HOW FAST SHE IS!!!

Me again on the cabinets - slow moving because I was answering questions for others

Samara on a throw away mattress - Doing great at her job to stay out of the way

Jeff and Madeline in the living room - being quite speedy

Dennis paying close attention to detail as he paints the trim.  LOVED his attention to detail

Eric in the hallway - painting the walls with ceiling paint or repainting it with the proper color.

My mom and Kami in the master bedroom

Trench Digging

We need a new line of electricity to run from the house to the well pump.  So the boys got to dig a trench.  They rented a trench digger and got to work. 

This thing was huge and intimidating for me.  Thankfully I got to paint cabinets for the day.

Ryan and his dad worked on this for hours.  Then as I was leaving his uncle came up to help.  This was a bigger job than we thought.  That huge trench digger was stopped by every little root and rock that they ran into.

This picture shows it going okay, but before long Rod was in front of the trench digger with a pick trying to clear the way for the monster. 

After working literally all day on this they were not able to finish.  So there will be a trench digging day part II