Ah, we've found gold!!!

By the way this is post number 4 of 4 that I have posted today, so if you don't scroll through the other posts you will miss alot.

After living in Washington State (the Evergreen State where everything remains green all year long-including the rooftops of houses because of the moss); New Mexico (the Enchanged State where we were enchanted by the fact that trees are an endangered species); and Georgia (the well I don't know what it is state-but it is green all year long) it is nice to find gold in the fall.

The downside, leaves are all over the ground. Well you have to take the bad with the good.

Close, but not completed

Have you ever felt like you were part of a Neverending Story? I have. Everyday it seems the same, get up; eat; work; eat; go to bed; and then start all over again the next day. Okay, maybe my life is the restoration version of Groundhog Day! I'm grateful to friends who when they visit comment on how much we have accomplished. To us it seems like baby steps, yet they think that we have made giant strides.

So lately we have spent some time on trying to finish the drawing room. Oh what will we do if we actually finish one room, 100% complete! I would be shocked and amazed (pronounced shock-ed and amaz-ed). Here is what we have completed so far:

Some minor trimwork is left on the panels and then I need to put a second coat of paint on the beams of the coffered ceiling. Chris also made window drapes for the drawing room. They are made out of "warm windows". That is a type of fabric, not windows that we found that are warm.

I am grateful for my talented wife.

Oh where oh where has my sheetrock gone?

Is there ever an end to sheetrock work? Someone asked me how many sheets I think I have used so far. That would have been a great tally to maintain, but I didn't. Sooooo, I have tried to figure out how many sheets. I had two loads of 100 sheets per load delivered and have transported by truck around 63 sheets that I can remember, so at least the tally would be 260 eight foot sheets and 3 ten foot sheets. I'm sure the count is higher, but the more important question is where did it all go? We still have sheetrock to purchase and hang. It seems that it disappears in a blackhole of some sort. There's a Hollywood theme for a "B" rated movie, The Invasion of the Blackhole that eats sheetrock.

Anyway, we have started to do some of the work in the parlor. Ah yes the parlor, the last room on the first floor that had no work done in it. The ceiling is hung and two of the walls have sheetrock. I will have to do some work on the interior bricks before we can hang sheetrock on the remaining two wall. Argh, more brick work!


We have also started to work on the alcove off the tower chamber. Remember the tower chamber? It was our second bedroom. (You can look through past posts for the tower chamber.) The alcove, which I referred to as a small sitting room will soon be the location of a queen size sleigh bed. Why use the alcove instead of the tower chamber for the location of the bed? Because of $$$'s. Okay, I'm sure that answer made absolutely no sense, so I will explain. It is a smaller room, easier to heat and cool. Today everthing is about $$$'s, and the more we spend on heating/cooling the less we have for other things. So as winter sets in this will more than likely become the winter bedroom, with the tower chamber being a nice place to site and relax.

No we have not gone on vacation

I'm sure some of you have asked "R U There?" or "R U Three?" (from Muppets from Space). If you haven't seen the movie then you probably don't know what I am talking about. But We R Here, and we have been working on the house. As the temperatures have cooled off we have concentrated more on the inside. However, some outside work has taken place such as more brickwork on the side and front porch.

This is what the side porch looked like when we got here. (I have been working on the side porch.)
And now it looks like this:

And as for the front porch, Brother Miller started to repair some of the bricks, which required some of the bricks to be taken down and put back up.