Post 35: I'm floored.

Well, while the wife was away I got the upstairs floor done, and it looks amazing.  As Kenny would say "That looks so good it looks like someone else did it."

I'd actually planned to do the benches (but the foam store was SOLD OUT!!! I have some hilarious notes about the foam store, but'll save that for when I do the benches) or drywall (but Lowe's couldn't deliver drywall to me in a timely fashion "Ok, so you need this tomorrow?  How does sometime in June sound, then?  Also, instead of drywall, how about some nice cardboard?") so I was kind of looking for something productive to do, and my parents had been kind enough to bring up the flooring a couple weeks ago, so there you have it.  Floors it is.

Here are some pix :)


From the stairway facing along the wall....

A closeup of some of the detail work near the stairs.... (the "lumber" looking wood sticking up on the right there is part of the glue lam: those will be boxed in and look like either solid oak or a roughcut beam before we're done)

And, from the window wall facing the stairway...

Since they look so good, I also had a few pix of the cut in's and detail work around the bed and the closet too, but I didn't want to "air my dirty laundry in public" (that's not a pun, my dirty laundry was in hampers above the part of the picture I wanted to show) so, soon :).

That's all for now, short one today.  Back soon!

Jj

Post 34- April Showers....

The shower is (finally) done.  I remembered how much fun tile isn't, it seems I do every time I lay tile.  Anyway, without further ado, here's a lot of pictures!  (ooooooh.....)

Underground Electric lines.....

Both my gals....

...and the peep show.

This is a funny story, and adorable.  Josh found a baby bird out of it's nest and brought it in the house and kept it in a box last night.  I had him show me where he found it, and after feeding the loud little fellow a hearty breakfast of mushed up soupy cat food through a syringe, took him out to go see if we could find his mama.  I walked him out in a cloth, set it down and it started to cheep plaintively.  About 45 seconds later, a very worried looking mama bird came running out sideways from a bush about 10 feet away and the reaction was priceless.  I REALLY wish I'd gotten the reunion on film, it was the most adorable thing I've ever seen with the baby bouncing along after mama and going "CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP!" excitedly.  I did go back and get my camera and got them frolicking, just after the reunion, along the railroad tracks.  Here's the video of that, at least: