The remodel continues

So today we started one of the harder parts of the big remodel. We are taking out the sliding glass door and putting a single door in instead. I know it's the middle of the winter and opening up the house seems like a crazy thing to do but the weather turned out very nice today.

We did run into a bit of problem with this job. It turns out that the opening for a sliding glass door is lower than one the one needed for a single door. So we had to cut out 2 inches out of the header and that took a couple of hours. If you have ever built or remodeled you know that things take longer than you had hoped for but it's not a surprise.

So we started about 9:30 in the morning and by about 4:30 P.M. we had the wall rebuilt and the door in place. Actually the door is just being held in place by 1 nail because it needs a lot of adjustments and we were just too tired to finishe it tonight. It actually lookes fabulous! I am pleased with how it is turning out.

Here is a look from the inside of the house. (needs a bit of sheet rock :) )

Day 2 of the kitchen project

So today we got the rest of the sheetrock down and removed most of the studs. It's amazing the space that is there. We have so much work to do and this is probably about a 6 month project but at least we have begun.

THE BIG PROJECT HAS FINALLY BEGUN

So after many years of dreaming of a major change in our kitchen we have finally begun. I have wanted for many years to remove the wall between our kitchen and "the room" next to it. We have called "the room" many names over the years. We first planned on it being a dinning room but we never used it as that. Then it was the "adult TV room" since the kids had a rec. room, over time it has become a TV room and since we put a big TV into it we finally used it a bit more. But I have wanted to have a kitchen/great room for many years.

Erik and I bean taking off the sheet rock before Kent came home but I'm not as good at it as he is.

We did make some progress and got about 1/3 of the sheetrock off in about 1 hour

Wildlife in the city

I know my mom already posted a couple of pictures about this but even after living here for 24 years I am still amazed by the deer that come into our backyard. We get many different animals coming through. Besides the deer we get racoons, quail, rabbits and lots of different types of birds.

Catching up

So it's been a couple of weeks since I have taken the time to blog. Really not that much exciting has happening other than the snow did finally stop! It still has been pretty cold since the snow with an occasional warm day thrown in between lots of frozen car windows and lots of fog. These pictures are from our front yard. Since we have a long downhill driveway we get a lot of run off from the upper road so a few times a year we end up cleaning up the "smuk".

IT"S SNOWING AGAIN!!!!

It's Sunday night about 7:30 and it's snowing again! We were cleaning up the Christmas stuff this afternoon and headed in and out of the house several times and it was just a normal time. Then Kent said something about a few flakes falling down around 4:30 PM. No big deal but about 1 1/2 hours later we looked outside and couldn't believe the amount of snow we had. There has to be at least 2 inches already and it's still snowing. (The weatherman says it will turn to rain tonight but we will see) They have already cancelled Seminary for tomorrow. ENOUGH ALREADY!