Tammy's Thoughts: Fall Fun and more work....

Wow! I can't believe we've gotten so much done with the house lately! The basement is all done except waiting for the carpet guy to install carpet in Ieshia's room and the hallway. So, therefore we are unable to finish trim right now. Derek and Emily's rooms are 100% completely finished! For a while now we have been talking about Willie and Debbie's rooms. They have wanted to switch rooms because 1) It's a straighter shot to get Willie to his room and
2) Because Debbie needs the bigger room.
We also needed to replace drywall on the outside walls so that they can be properly insulated. So, the work has begun! First was a trip to People's! John loves that store. We got the lumber to finish trim in the basement after the carpet is laid and also drywall, and insulation for Willie's room. Derek is only 8 years old but he is a worker! He is like a 30 year old trapped in an 8 year olds body. Derek is John's right hand "man". He probably works harder that most young men that we know. Here he is helping unload the truck!

After the foundation was replaced on this house, the bi-fold closet doors just didn't work right. They were crooked and never stayed on track. We also noticed that the shelving above the closets were close to falling out. Anyway, John took all that out and decided to start over and use regular closet doors. Boy, what a 'shocker' we had when we seen the wiring! It was a total mess!! Kind of scary actually to know that there were bare wires and also no junction boxes whatsoever! Thanks to John, it's all fixed now!! These pictures show the wires exactly how we found them.....

Tonight we went to our friends' (Gary and Sandra) house. John dropped a few things off , but to the kids it was like a field trip! We got to see Brownie, who is one of Mocha's pups! Brownie is a wonderful dog. She looks and acts a lot like Mocha.

Derek liked the cat, I think her name was Mitzy.

Gary also showed us his Big Bad Rooster.....

And Emily liked petting on of the chickens.....

The peacocks were beautiful and all the kids went home with souvenirs of peacock feathers!!

I thought the pumpkin patch was pretty neat! We trampled through the patch and looked at the pumpkins and the kids each picked out one to bring home. Gary gave me a 'Blue Moon" pumpkin. It's pretty cool looking!