It was a wild weekend...

How wild was it?

I found a snake in the basement...it was a small snake..so small I thought at first it was a worm.

Rich saw this spider by the front door.  It's BIG...and look at that web...he did a zigzag stitch...

And this frog was spotted on one of the windows..

And this little "wild thing" came to visit Saturday morning and proudly showed us her first "writing" from school.  She is three and just started going to a local day care.  She was so excited to hang the paper on the refrigerator.  If you click on the photo you will notice that she only traced the A's and B's.  When I asked her why she didn't trace the C's, she said "well, I don't like them as much".  LOL

Our tools for the weekend..

A.  New Front Light...

B.  New floodlight installed on the corner of the eaves of the house.  Sorry, no photo..

C. I had no idea that you could buy Magnetic paint.  It comes in a quart and you use a foam roller and do three coats.  This is in the sewing room and there is only one coat so far.  There will also be a piece of white trim added to the top to finish it off.  I can't wait to do the second and third coats and try it out.  Walmart had all the lime green school supplies on sale last week and I bought a new pencil holder, new stapler and 16 matching magnets..  I think the board will come in handy..and it was kind of fun to do something that was an "extra"...and really not necessary to us moving here..

D.  Those are the knobs for the closet doors in the back hallway.  We thought we lost them and refound them this weekend so I had to make sure they stayed in the kitchen and don't get lost again.

E.  We bought this little metal cart at an auction last summer..We paid less than $2. I always knew that it would end up in the laundry area and after painting the back hallway white I thought this would be a perfect pop of color...and I love orange.  I had one can of spray paint so it only has half of the first coat and doesn't look so good...but more will be done on this in a couple of weeks. 

F.  New dryer vent.  The previous owners had the dryer venting into a plastic trashcan in the basement.  Not a good idea for so many reasons...

Ha Ha... Rich asked for a soda while he was cutting the hole...

And that was all on our little list for this past weekend... of course that means there was a big list...right?  

Insulayment...

Flooring...

With those items...we did this...

just a plain back hallway

Insulayment down and first flooring going down...

Hallway done

Closet floors done

laundry area done...

You know what this means?  All the floors are done...every last floor in this house has been ripped up, removed, hauled off and new floors installed.  That's 2009 sq ft of flooring..   Yes, we still need to add baseboard..heck, we have to buy and paint the baseboard...but my legs are so happy the flooring is done...

We also did some touch up painting on the garage...that back wall where Rich dropped the bucket of paint now looks perfect..

And Saturday night we did a DATE NIGHT!!  Can you believe it...  We knocked off working around 3pm...took showers...put nice clothes on...and went to dinner...   After dinner we had tickets to tour the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Mo.  This prison closed in 2004 and all the inmates were transferred to other Missouri prisons.  They now give history tours, ghost tours and occasionally do over night paranormal ghost tours.  We took the history tour and it was fascinating.. We had a wonderful tour guide named Mark Schrieber who was an investigator for the Department of Corrections and a former Deputy Warden at this prison.  If you are thinking about taking a tour do it before November as he is retiring and he is the best.  Our tour was listed as two hours...we left at two hours 20 minutes and they were still standing around talking at the gas chamber...

Here are photos I took..

Front of prison

One of the housing units

typical cell

Cell of James Earl Ray..who escaped in a bread truck and later assassinated Martin Luther King.  He was incarcerated here on a different charge and Mark said he was a model prisoner and gave no indication to anyone that he was capable of doing that murder.

J.E.R. is for James Earl Ray... click the photo to make it larger for dates of imprisonment

One of the inmates made this sign...

Sonny Liston was housed in this cell.  Note the clear TV set.

The gas chamber

When this gas chamber was being built, there were two people on death row that were to be executed at the same time. Hence the two chairs...  

These are the photos of all the Men and One Woman to be executed in this gas chamber.  The last two photos on the right in the fourth row are of Bonnie Heady and Carl Austin Hall.  They were the Greenlease Kidnappers.. you can read about them here andhere.

Nancy