remodeling the house | Life on a Colorado Farm

Gradually —- one step at a time we are getting the projects down at the other house done. The refrigerator and the stove are now in their new position in the kitchen and the kitchen is rewired to accommodate their move.

The new sheet rock is up ready for Terry to mud in the seams and for me to paint–sometime this week.

The old coal room and the pantry are starting to take shape as one room. Friday and Saturday Terry and I started removing the very well built coal furnace chimney…it is no longer in use and stuck in the middle of the new room to be.

Our oldest daughter helped us on Friday and

Saturday our son and his wife came out and helped take most of the chimney down. Terry and I will get the rest.

Things still left to do, before farming starts:

Build an entry under the house so repairs are easier
Finish the plumbing on the tub
Move the water heater to it’s new spot
Wire the new room for electrical plug ends
Hang the new walls

The furnace and duct work will occur sometime this summer.

Our goal is to have everything finished by the end of next week. Please keep your fingers and toes crossed that we make it! (Magic thoughts and/or prayers would be nice also. 🙂 )

Your friend on a Western Colorado farm,

Linda

We pick up our oldest granddaughter tomorrow sometime. She is hitching a ride with her BFF from Delta today. Her BFF’s family is in Glenwood Springs, Colorado tonight for a volleyball game and offered to bring her to Delta.

It’s a neat win-win, since the two girls will get to be together for one night and then I will get to have Linkin a day sooner than Saturday.

Excitement abounds!

Terry and I are starting to wind up the cosmetic part of the house. I have two rooms left to paint—he is totally done with the sheetrock and other stuff caused by moving the door and straightening a wall (It will help make the bedroom larger). I hope to get all the painting done and the house dusted and vacuumed and swept, and the windows washed, before the whole family gets here on Saturday!

As soon as they call me and say they are on the road I’ll run down and put wood in the woodstove. Everything will be nice and tidy for them when they come. Although, they will only be using the house to sleep in, you do understand that? I hope to have them here at our house as much as possible!

Today is Teresa’s Good Fences Thursday….don’t forget to check out her fence and everyone elses.

When Terry and I were out checking on everything last night the sky was just wonderful! I give you a typical fence on our place and a not so typical southern pink sky!