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.

Next Quilt

Here is the quilt top I've actually made for our king size bed. I still need to put it together, but I have the top done.

Double Wedding Ring

At last I finished the double wedding ring pattern I started months ago. I had thought about making a quilt top for our bed, but once I started, I realized it would take me about thirty years to make an entire king size quilt top. 

Now that it is complete, I get to look at my three-piece “quilt top” on my cedar chest everyday. Which is almost as nice as looking at it on my bed.

Five Months Ago

I married this cute guy!

1.2.3.

Saturday Josh worked on tearing down our junkiest shed. 

ONE

TWO

THREE

Our insurance company has been nagging us to do something about this eye sore. It was structurally challenged, had a full two-foot gap across the ridge, the entire north end was open to the elements and the “attic” was so short Josh couldn’t even stand up under it.* So we decided it would be wiser to tear it down then to try to fix it. Our insurance company should be happy when they come out for their next inspection.

*Josh’s note. And there was three mice too.