Shelving in the kitchen

This past weekend we put shelves up in the kitchen. The wall is plaster over cement so a regular drill and bit didn't cut the mustard. So I got to buy a hammer drill. Just saying the words "Hammer Drill" you can hear guys grunting like Tim Allen on Tool Time. I mean the thing has power...ohhhh arrggg ohhhh. It's a 1/2 inch, Two Speed gear train, Reversible, Double Insulated, mode selecting, lock on feature with the auxiliary handle assembly. A guy can take this drill and place eight 3/16" holes 1 7/8" deep in solid concrete to attach shelving in a matter of minutes. Thus allowing your wife to organize a varitey of jars filled with what not to some how cook these amazing meals to which all that grunting energy is properly restored in the guy. ohhh arrggg ohhhh!

Bathroom Begins

A wall will be built on the blue line (photo below) making the bath 5" x 8" and by knocking down a wall we will have 11' x 11' for a bedroom, which will be great for a few reasons. One we are use to a bed room the is 11" x 8" and two we have one closet in the whole house which is 2' wide 3' deep and 10' high with no way to reach the upper shelves. When we get done we hope to have an 11' long closet in the bedroom.

Yesterday we started the bathroom. You can see the general layout from the photo as well as what the bathroom looked like before we started.

Our Summer Vacation Continues into Fall

We have been doing some work outside the last few weeks. You know how a person should photograph all the progress? Well I haven't done so good on the outside. When we first picked up trash in the yard it filled a 55 Gallon trash can, so you can imagine what it must have been like. In this shot you can see the old mouldings have become a compost bin and we have dug up a few places to garden. We put blueberries, rasberries and strawberries in one row. We put around 80 tulips bulbs for the spring in another row. There was a large weed that looked like a tree, which now is our fire pit as I burn out the stump.