a short weekend...

It was a short weekend for me...  Rich left early Saturday morning to go out to the house to watch the concrete guy stake out the area for the shop building.  I would show you a photo of the orange stakes, but there aren't any.  Rich basically told him..."fit the shop here between these trees".  The concrete guy said "ok" and left...  That's how you do business in the country...  Then Rich got busy and finished the front porch...

we now have a step!!

front view

 Many will ask why we decided to add the step to the side of the porch.  We have a large planting of something in the yard that we would like to keep.. If we put the walk to the left of the planting we would be walking right up next to the house..  If we put the walk to the right of the planting the flow works much smoother...that meant that we couldn't add the step to the front of the porch, but went to the side.  A concrete walk will run from the step to the driveway.  We will add balusters and banisters after the movers are gone to make it easier on them... 

He also got a couple of small jobs finished.  Put the doors on the closets in the back hallway,  adjusted the front door and adjusted the master bedroom door.  He also took off to town to get all the "parts" we would need for Sunday's job.

What did I do Saturday?

I had a great time with this and some peeps...

I showed up late Saturday night...just in time for bed...


Sunday we started out with this mess...

What a mess!  We had closet rods, shelving units, shelf supports, shelf hangers and too many parts to keep track of...that doesn't count the drill, drill bits, sawzall and hammer.  That little chest of drawers was found at an estate sale right before we bought this house and we have kept all of our clothes in there for the past year.  Four drawers of work clothes.. It will soon have a place in the sewing room.

top shelf

two closet rods

two shoe racks

another shelf  and my closet is done!

Rich already had two rods in his closet so we added two shoe racks and three shelves..

Yes, we have separate closets for the first time in our married life.  He took the closet that was already in the bedroom and I got the new one. The closets aren't huge by any standard.  Neither one of us have a huge amount of clothes.  He probably has the most as he has work clothes and weekend clothes.  I am not a big fan of clothes shopping or any shopping (except fabric!) for that matter... so our closets will be sufficient for us..  And we are very happy that all this wire and all four closet rods were recycled.. we saved them and took them to the car wash a couple of months ago...so we just had to buy a few parts to put it all together..

And that took all day...all. day.   But we did one more thing before we left..

Do You See It?

 See It Now?

A NEW DOORBELL!!

This house never had one..I always wondered how they knew someone was at the door.  You can't hear cars come down the driveway.  The only windows that face the driveway are either in the bedrooms or the back hallway..  I found this wireless set at Lowe's for less than $20.  The doorbell has a little battery in it and comes with a self stick pad or screws to attach it to your house..and then you plug the other part into a wall outlet.  Easy Peasy.. It took less than five minutes and we will know when you come to visit...

Nancy