WE HAVE A/C

After work this week we have....

- Monday Tom's parents came in the evening and Tommy and them did some chipping of the trees Pawel cut down last weekend... but eventually the belt broke so that was the end of that.

- Tuesday Tom's parents and Mr. Markowski were here working on the A/C compressors, electric connections and charging the units. Yeah we have A/C!!! Then the fixed the shredder... Tom's mom worked on some mulch around a group of tress in the backyard...After they left we did some front yard clean up... picked up stones, moved the bark from the trees off the front lawn, and cleaned up some brush and the orange and black fence along the stream

- Weds we figured out the level of the driveway pad so when we get debri from the harley rake we can put that gravel as the base of the driveway pad since it needs a bit more height in the one corner. I leveled out some of the mulch around groups of trees in the backyard... Planted some marigolds that Tom's mom gave me to protect the 'patio garden'.

Hooper is doing great! He does so great by himself while we are at work and he is a 'velcro' dog... he does not leave our side when we are outside! Love him so much!

PEPE 'LIL' PEW

We had some helpers this weekend and got a bit of work done...

Tom's dad worked on putting a hose spigot outside the basement door and he started working on the A/C compressor piping and electric...

Tom's mom planted 300 bare root vinca's on the slope in the front yard. It was quite a bit of work and we didn't have enough...

Pawel came in the afternoon and he cut down some of the rest of the dead and/or ugly trees...

Tommy and I worked on a couple things... We cleaned up the orange and black fencing, dug the sewer stickups out and cut them so they would be underground, spread some mulch, and graded the front yard a bit...

On Saturday night we went to home depot after we got done working and on the way home we pulled into the driveway and there is a little baby skunk!!! Pepe 'Lil' Pew!!! We couldn't get up the driveway for a good 5 minutes because he kept walking back and forth in a zig zag pattern up the driveway... He doesn't quite walk either... he has a chuga chuga cho cho type of walk... one butt cheek up then the other... so funny! What are we going to do with a resident skunk!!!

PATIO BISTRO

This was a busy weekend. On Friday night I picked Tommy up from the airport at 11ish so after a whole week of not working on the house we were eager to start on Saturday morning. This weekend we built both of the 2nd tiers of the retaining walls for the walkout basement. We finished the gutter drainage for the back of the house out to daylight. We poured the slabs for the A/C compressor units and Tommy started to take dirt from where we will eventually have a patio in order to backfill the tiered walls. Also put some concrete along the pavers so that they cannot move out. And I got some vegetables (tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and strawberries) and planted them in the flower beds made by the retaining walls. I will call it my Patio Bistro Garden... haha...

TRIMWORK WHILE RAINING

On Sunday it was raining so we couldn't work outside. Instead Tommy worked on the trimwork on the elliptical windows in the dining and office. I spent the day painting two coats on the fancy ceiling in the office and Tom's dad worked on hooking up the electric to the A/C units in the attic.

Not the most exciting day and no pictures to show for it.

AIR CONDITIONING

Tom's parents went to the house yesterday and today and they worked on the Air Conditioning. His dad connected all the remaining tubes and then today they wrapped them with insulation. Trying to get it done before it is too hot outside and the attic starts to boil. Only a few more things and the A/C unit in the attic is finished.

I caulked and then painted the crown in the family, 1st floor foyer and kitchen. And of course I missed my Tommy!

HAPPY SPRING!!!

Yay for spring! What a beautiful day!

Tom's parents were here today. His dad did some more work on the air conditioning ducts in the attic. He is pushing that so that we have air conditioning before it is too HOT (just think a few weeks ago we had blizzards!). It actually did get too hot in the attic for him to keep working so he went outside in the afternoon and moved some dirt around.

His mom painted some base cap for the crown molding and then she went outside and cleaned up around the driveway.

Tom worked on the crown in the family room.

I painted all day. All the trimwork upstairs is for the most part installed and I have been painting it since you can see the puttied nailholes if you don't.