Progress and Perplexities

Wonderful Working Wayne!!! After Wayne has worked four 10 to 12 hour days this week, Friday, Saturday and this morning saw Him hard at work before 6 in the morning. This is still Angie's room. Lots of sheet rock going up everywhere but the focus this weekend has been back here where there are so many strange angles where the back of the old adobe structure has been opened into the back addition whatever it was...porch? laundry? mud room?
  Where he is measuring is the last place separating Angie's room from the kitchen and to the right you can see Angie's bathroom. I dont know if you can see the hot water heater just peeking over the top of the sheet rock to the left of the white pipe. It is where it belongs, not in the middle of her room. OK- the toilet is still in the middle of the bed room but not for long.

Wonderful Working Wayne

  Lets see some before and some where we are now(not exactly after yet).

Remember this ugly corner?

Taaa! Daaa!
 A wall is born!     

Perplexity but just a minor one. Ceilings going in! The beam is where the original exterior wall was. See the old adobe brick stacked in the wall? The right side of the room is a frame structure. The roof slopes with the back structure across the house. The ceiling and back outside walls are well insulated now. Probably not as well as the adobe but we are going to be cool in the summer and warm and toasty in the winter.

Lets see some more awesome progress!!!!

before

this morning

Come out of the closet Wayne! The obstacle at his knees is my kitchen counter. No- We will not leave it in Angie's room. 

One of the advantages of this do it yourself project is so many of the materials have been purchased already by Henry.

To the left are my kitchen cabinets to be assembled. To the right are my ceiling fans, light fixtures, faucets and somewhere in these stacks are bathroom vent fans and heat lamps. I also see a toilet tank behind the cabinet boxes. AWESOME GOODIES.

Ready for more progress???

This is from Wayne's room through the wall into my room.

 The black dog enjoying the view through the back of the closet is my muttly and  super construction assistant, Truth. She is named after Sojourner Truth. An ex-slave and activist for women's suffrage. If you have never heard of her you should google her and read her speech to the Continental Congress in response to the allegation that a woman would not go out to vote if it might muddy their slippers or their hems. I think its titled "Aint I a Woman".
 
I am going to run Angie to the store for graph paper and some other things she needs ...well I will ride with her since she has her permit now and is becoming a very good driver.
 
If you are wonder what I am doing while all this awesome stuff is going on. I am stuck in my garage trashing and packing. Get a break this afternoon while a bug bomb hopefully chases away all the black widows. Please picture arachnophobic dirty dusty heeby jeebies. I should get a picture of one of the pretty shiny Ladies for you. They look just like the halloween decorations.
Pam