Monday, September 17, 2007

Goodbye Chicken Wire - Hello REAL Fence!

Joe and his dad took on one of the biggest eye-soars of the outside of our house - our fence. This was a project that Myra was REALLY crossing her fingers would get done. We had this old rusted wire fence that was just begging to be ripped down (although, some of the posts just didn't want to leave the backyard):


Then they replaced it with a beautiful cedar fence! This of course involved a lot of digging with the pic ax, cutting, and back-breaking sledge-hammering since it wasn't 'worth it' to rent a hole or trench digger...We had a nice 'hump' right where the fence needed to go to assure it wouldn't get taken down by the county if they widen the road (hence extra digging). They were 'lucky' that they 'only' had to do one side of the yard since our back neighbor had a fence already that he said we could connect too and our neighbors on the other side already had one too...Here's some pictures:



Friday, September 14, 2007

More 'Random' Updates



Well, there's no stopping them. Joe and his Dad crawled under the house (we won't say through what - I think the picture speaks for itself). This was all in the name of splicing off a pipe so that our automatic ice maker would actually get water to make ice!


They also worked on installing a couple new fans. One in the living room and one in the bedroom. Ahhhhhhhhhh.....our own version of 'air'......


A new mailbox ended up on the list as well, I know, I know - not really exciting - but the pictures were taken so here you go!:

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

More Doors!

Well, Joe and his dad are suckers for punishment. They moved on to the front door and our 'non-swinging', swinging door (it should've been a swinging door but was all crooked and just sort of shut from one side.
Here is a picture of the front door (old and new) and the threshold dad made for us:

And pictures of the old and new swinging door - this goes from the dining room to the kitchen:

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

New Interior Doors - was that on the list?

Well, Joe's parents arrived late last Friday night and Joe wasted no time in putting his dad to work! :-) They went out on Sat. with the mission of finding a new EXTERIOR door since the list for when his dad was here included replacing the exterior doors. While looking for this at the local Habitat Restore his dad found beautiful solid wood panel interior doors - our interior doors were all these flat ugly white doors that had peeling paint and highlighters on them. Here's a couple pictures of the old doors:


So, the plan changed! Of course, it wasn't so easy to replace (nothing is!) since we have metal door frames that have the hinge location set to a specific location - this meant A LOT of 'tweaking' the doors (moving hinges, shaving, sanding, painting)...


BUT, in the end, we ended up with beautiful interior doors!