Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Trees
Our trees were delivered and planted yesterday. They are a white spruce, between 4-6 feet tall. We have 100 of them. We also grabbed a few poplars from my mom and dad's last weekend. 
Sunday, October 12, 2008
The latest....
We still continue to work on the house. We have been living in the house for just over 1 year now. It has been a wonderfully busy year!
The grass is coming in not too bad. We ended up buying a little lawn tractor, so it takes about 3 hours to mow the lawn. We still have lots of rocks, so we will work on getting all those out over the next year or so. By then we should have some trees, and we will consider getting a zero turn mower.
Todd powered through 2 weekends and got all the spindles and railings painted. We still need to varnish the railings, so the kids and I will have to leave one more weekend--the kids are just a little too helpful!!!
Todd has also been working hard on getting baseboards, headers, and chair railings up. The is the headers of the front bay window. It all came together very nicely! We still have to put up window casings in the back windows, but that means setting up the scaffolding. We'll have to get to it one of these weekends.
Todd bought a paint sprayer, so we finally got all of our doors painted. They look so nice!! Todd just installed the first of the closet doors last night, so I will have to get pictures up of that.
The grass is coming in not too bad. We ended up buying a little lawn tractor, so it takes about 3 hours to mow the lawn. We still have lots of rocks, so we will work on getting all those out over the next year or so. By then we should have some trees, and we will consider getting a zero turn mower.
Todd powered through 2 weekends and got all the spindles and railings painted. We still need to varnish the railings, so the kids and I will have to leave one more weekend--the kids are just a little too helpful!!!
Todd has also been working hard on getting baseboards, headers, and chair railings up. The is the headers of the front bay window. It all came together very nicely! We still have to put up window casings in the back windows, but that means setting up the scaffolding. We'll have to get to it one of these weekends.
Todd bought a paint sprayer, so we finally got all of our doors painted. They look so nice!! Todd just installed the first of the closet doors last night, so I will have to get pictures up of that. We are having someone in to do the rock inside and out, and he should hopefully be in the last week of October, or the first week of November at the latest. These are our 3 choices so far....we are having a hard time picking which one!! They are all Eldorado Stone.
Once we have that in, it will make the house look so different. I had a mantel for the fireplace made out of a log from my grandma's house. The log itself is about 200 years old. The tree was about 100 years when it was cut down to be used for my grandma's house, and the house was built over 100 years ago. I can't wait to see the finished fireplace wall--it should be a great feature in the house!!!!
We are getting trees brought in tomorrow. We will have 100 white spruce planted. They are between 4 -6 feet in height. That will make the lot look a very different.
We are also looking at different options for sidewalks. We had looked at getting stamped concrete, but apparently that gets very slippery in the winter. I think we are learning towards paving stones, that Todd and I will do ourselves---the projects just never end around here!!!
By the way--Happy Thanksgiving!!
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