Inspector Smeckter

Today was a hard day. It was just...I don't know, I'm so exhausted! We worked our tails off and it feels like we didn't accomplish much. Still, we got another window in, and three small windows framed, and four windows sealed up and ready for stucco, and we took some old bunk bed rails which are meant to keep you from falling out of bed that my dad picked up, and ripped them down and primed them for window trim. It seems like a longish list when I type it all out!

Here's the kicker though; the gooding building inspector stopped by. He told us we have to have a permit to be changing the windows out. So we went and picked up a permit which really made me frustrated.  Why should we have to pay 55 bucks to replace windows which are already expensive? Dumb.

Enough complaining. I'm going to bed now.

spinning heads

Ya'all, life is going so fast. It's just that we don't really get down time right now and that's weird. Our poor kids are being neglected, I'll admit it. We are just trying to keep our heads out of the water, you know, to keep from drowning.

Someone asked me what we will do with the step outside the door we took out. We will rent a jackhammer and get rid of it. We have a few other concrete items to get rid of while we are at it.

I cannot wait to get this outside business sealed up so we can get back to the inside of the house. I'm particularly excited to get into the kitchen. I have some pretty cool plans for that.

Stucco

Today Trevor came home with an exciting story. He said he talked with someone who told him about how the left hand side of our house was a beauty parlor back in the day. Now the door and large window make sense! But what doesn't make sense is who in their right mind would have stepped foot in that yucky house to get their hair done. People have low standards.

In home news, we put another window in tonight. We are going to work on getting the rest of the house ready for more stucco the rest of the week. We've got to get this stucco done before the weather gets too cold for it. I am now a stucco expert you know...

This is after one coat of stucco. Two more to go.

Too Tired to Sleep

I'm tired. Tired.

We got home at about 9:30 this evening, and ate dinner and went to bed. This is no exaggeration.  We are all tired.

My most amazing and talented dad has been driving up on the weekends to help us fix this house. I am simply amazed at how much we accomplish when he is here. He does the work of 20 of me. Okay, maybe more like 30. We have worked ourselves ragged this week though trying to seal up the outside of this house. I am amazed that Trevor and my dad were able to take out every window that needed to come out. That was a lot of windows!! Let me count... 8 windows? I think. Yes, I think it was 8 that I wanted out.

It may seem like a lot, but we are redoing the floor plan on this junker, and it had a lot of tiny, ridiculous windows.

Tonight we tried our hands at stucco. What an experience. Moral of tonight's stucco episode? Don't mix too much! On the bright side, we have a new step on the outside of our garage. Get it? We mixed too much, so the excess got poured into a sidewalk!

So anyway, it's late and I was asleep, but then I was brutally awakened by acid reflux which choked me pretty good and shook me up enough that now I can't sleep. That's why you shouldn't eat and then go to sleep. Duh. Bad choice.

Sounds Like

This morning as I took Samantha out to the bus, Roy was in the front yard stalking a mouse. As I heard the now familiar sound of the mouse squealing for its life, I thought "I bet not many people have heard that before."

So thanks to Roy, I am now going to share the sound that sends shivers down my spine. I hate mice. I will never forget this sound.