So we have done a few projects at the house in between the busyness... the first project was continuing the siding on the front side of the house. While I was gone at camp in mid-October, Shae worked very hard one night to put up our cedar shake siding.
Then we replaced the front steps to our house. Shae and I had both taken the Friday off before our last Flea market of the season. And the morning that we were planning to load all the furniture and projects out of the house and onto the trailer, our concrete stairs had crumbled.
More recently, we have had our sweet puppy get sick with Parvo. He is doing much better after a long stay at the Emergency Vet.
After Thanksgiving, Shae began to take down the wall and built in shelves in the living room.
He also repaired the floor from where the fireplace used to sit before the previous home owners took it out. We are in the process now of shifting that wall over and creating a hallway from the living to the back of the house. Eventually, we will have a middle room in the house that will be another bedroom.
This past weekend, while I was away from the house one evening, Shae fixed up our laundry room space--I now have shelves and a hanging rack for clothes so our sweet puppy doesn't eat anymore of my shirts. Also, he added a door in the doorway so that I don't have to go the long way to get to the laundry room.
Hopefully over break we can get some more little projects knocked off our list. The next big project is to lay subfloor in the kitchen. That will definitely be a project day with (hopefully) the help of many friends!
And this morning was a new kind of adventure... in my attempts to take a shower this morning, I noticed the shower wasn't draining.
So I watched a short video on YouTube and found out how to thaw out a frozen drain pipe.
So I had to crawl under the back corner of the house to access the frozen pipe. Then use a hairdryer to thaw it out.
It worked! I was able to get the whole thing done all by myself when it was 17 degrees outside!!!
There are always adventures at the Kipp's house!!
