Some Work is Being Done

We are finally able to work again on the house. All of the drywall has been hung except in the garage. This weekend Chris worked on getting the main line placed for the electrical. It has been slow going for him because the ground is still so frozen. He said alongside the house where the sun isn't shining all day, the dirt was just being scraped off, like shaving chocolate off a candy bar. Chris started to back fill yesterday and couldn't even move the digger, the ground was so icy the wheels just spun. Hopefully today they can get the dirt moved.


But we know have a heater running. Chris installed a temporary heater so we don't have to use gas blowers now. It was so fummy in the house yesterday, they had two heaters running on jet fuel. It was awful.


Thursday afternoon, Madi, Jason, Tabatha, and I made a trip to Topeka. We went to Jason's old store and picked up paint. We hit the jackpot actually. They had a bunch of five gallon buckets of paint that was either paid for and nobody ever picked them up or they were mistinted buckets of paint. But we ended up getting 40 gallons of paint, enough to paint the whole house, for $100.00!!! Chris was so proud of me, he kept saying, "Wow, you did a good job today." Which is a big compliment from Chris, usually he grumbles, no matter what kind of deal I get. So we are hoping we can start painting in two weeks.


Happy New Year!!! I sure hope 2008 is a great year for everyone!
Love, Amy



Our sink hole in the front of the house. We actually want this to happen though, hopefully it starts settling more on the other sides of the house.



All that's left to drywall. The office, part of the stairway and the master bath. (This was all completed yesterday)



Left side is the livingroom with the hallway leading to the pantry, laundry room and garage on the right.



Right side is the kitchen area.



Chris' dirtwork for the electrical.