Fall into Autumn

   Good morning and good progress in all endeavors for  our project and anything you may be trying to achieve as well.
   To the left is a picture of my kitchen. Those pipes hold the promise of the modern convenience of a dishwasher. Modern conveniences are so awesome. I am so excited about living in a house with a dishwasher again. I can not even begin to tell you how happy this will make me. My oldest daughter Barbi was an awesome dishwasher before she moved out. Her younger sister Angie is not that adept or consistent in this important endeavor.


Here is that same part of my kitchen with walls up. Yay! We love walls! The stove is almost where it will be. It is sitting out in the middle of the room now in front of the corner it will be in. This weekend we had some help from our friend Bobby.


Here is Bobby. Bobby has been a framer by trade but now beside being our sooper helper he works at the local dairy. I think he is missing his cows. I try to moo a lot and stand in the way so that he doesn't miss them to much. Thanks Bobby! We saw a bunch of sheetrock go up this weekend.

You boys definitely deserve a cold one.
Another friend that came buy this weekend was Greg. He got all my breakers in my breaker box. This little house will have 57 outlets when we are done. I guess there has to be one every 4 feet along the wall. Then each bedroom needs to be on a Arc Fault Interrupting breaker. The kitchen and bathrooms and laundry are all on Ground Fault Interrupting Breakers. Thank you Greg. I will try to get a picture of you soon.


My project is getting closer to complete. Wayne gets 1000 credits as he patiently allows me to play in the mud with only a little helpful advice and never making me feel like he could get this up much better and faster. He says I am doing very good and he is just glad he doesn't have to mess with it. I got a little slowed down with a design element that I changed my mind about how to do. Wayne says the more time I spend planning the less time we have to spend undoing things that didn't work. I did get my brown coat done.

This is what I started with. To the right and below right is the same spot on the wall



To the left is where I got to last week. To the right is part of this weekends work.
This is the coat that the plaster will go over. It goes on brown but will dry gray. The plaster will go on gray and dry white.






Not great lighting but you can tell where this weeks wet meets last weeks dry. This weeks mud goes all the way over the door and down to the floor.  It will all cure to the same color. Today I will get my wood trim cut and ready to go so and my secret, to be revealed, design element ready so that I can get the plaster done before the weekend. Bobby will be back thru this week to get more dry wall up and we have tape and mud guys coming in the evening. This week I should be able to get the kitchen cabinets assembled so that next weekend I might be able to have running water in the kitchen and a dishwasher. Ta Ta for today! Pam