Chim-chim-i-ney

rough state

washing it

primed and cutting in new color

solid brown

final project

Josh’s Mom scrubbed our fireplace, primed it, painted it and even traced mortar color on all the little lines. Wow. Her patience was exemplary and I am so THANKFUL she did this tedious task for us.

Crawlspace Correction

 For those of you who thought that picture was us in the crawlspace, that was us in the kitchen getting ready to go in the crawlspace. 

entry way...ie hole in the kitchen floor

That's Josh standing on the ground of the crawlspace his knees are at the kitchen floor level

These pictures still don’t do it justice, because I’m not willing to take my camera down in the dreadful space. But at least maybe you will have a better idea. It really is about one foot tall. In order to get under the main center beam I have to go to the “big” dugout spot and literally pull myself through on my flat belly and the larger circumference area of my back side still rubs the board! Anyway, my wonderful husband and I spent several more hours down there on Monday night, so that we could turn the heat on.

Roofing

At the start of this week our roof looked like this.

On Monday it looked like this.

Today it looks like this!

Our church helped us put a new roof on our house this week. 

The guys from our families, friends and church all worked together the last few days and turned our roof from dilapidated to fantastic.

Crawl Space

Josh did not want me to take this picture. Thus the happy face.

Working in our crawlspace is NOT fun or romantic at all. But is has to be done. We doned some coveralls and conquered the ductwork on the North end of the house. After that we had this lovely meal. We still have not found the time, or worked up the courage to conquer the South end.