1910 Photo

A couple of weeks ago I was out working in the garden and van pulled up and out came about 10 people. They asked if I didn't mind, maybe they could take a picture. Well I dusted off and after a little chat came to find out these folks were all descendants of the Rimmer family, who built our house. They were in the area for a family reunion and they gave me this photo from around 1910. It's pretty cool, if you look close you can see four people on the porch, a dog in foreground and one on the porch that looks like a hound dog. You can also kind of see a side entry in the back. They must have added on the wraparound porch after this.

Since the last post Aaron redid the other bathroom by putting up drywall, taking down this weird stucco-textured ceiling stuff and repainting the beadboard underneath. He also took down the cabinets that were in there and we put in an over-the-toilet rack for the towels and some shelving above the washer and dryer. Oh and we painted it a light creamy yellow color and repainted the vanity and the light fixture above it. It seems a lot lighter and roomier in there. Here are photos of before and after, the before shot is the only one I have of that room and it's from when the old owners were here but you can see the dark cabinet and the weird greenish paneling that was in there.

We also had Sam, the plumber who redid the pipes in our old house, come out and redo the pipes here. This is after we had to call a couple of times to get leaks fixed. So now the pipes are nice and slug up against the house. And no more copper pipes, this should prevent the freezing-pipes problem we had last winter.

Summer Projects

It's been a while since I last posted. We've been super busy this summer, it's flown by so fast. We've been spending a lot of time in the garden and boy, have we been rewarded. A little too much. We had so many tomatoes we didn't know what to do. We canned some, froze some, made sauce, sold some, gave some away and still it didn't seem to make a dent, the counters were covered with a sea of ever-ripening tomatoes. Next year maybe we won't plant so many plants.

In June we had the floors in the living room done and they came out great. It's a really big improvement, here are some photos of the room in all it's stages.

The last couple of weeks Aaron's been working on the bathrooms. The half bath is pretty much done. He put up drywall, installed a new vanity sink, put down new floors and painted. It looks great, like a normal bathroom instead of that crazy room it was before. It's funny how you get used to anything, even though it's only been done for about a week I look at the before photo and think, did it really look like THAT? And the answer is yes, it did.

I'm off to help paint some trim and the medicine cabinet he's gonna install in the other bathroom. I'll post pictures of that when it's done.