Tiling Away on a Sunday Night!

All weekend has gone to trying to get this floor done. As always, it has gone slower than we anticipated, but that's okay. Last time I checked, we're in no rush to move out of this place. There's always tomorrow to do more stuff.

James is laying tile. He has never laid tile. He is doing a great job.

James puts his little slave boy, Paul, to work. Paul has been nice enough to help us out with a bunch of our projects. He's shipping off to the good old USMC in a few weeks. We're currently taking applications for our next little slave boy. If you are interested in doing home improvement projects with James without getting compensated, please call him. I provide necessary food.

Our Appliances Got Delivered!

Like everything else in this Home Improvement life of ours, we had expectations of having our floor done before the 5th. So when we purchased our appliances 3 weeks ago, we thought the 5th would be a grand day to have them delivered. Of course, the floor is not done. So our appliances are hanging out in our dining room for a while.

Our stove got delivered with a dent in the side. It's not a big deal because it will be up against a cabinet. I called Lowe's and they took an extra $50 off for me. That made me happy. We also got a new washer - which washes HOT! I'm very happy about this one. I did not take any pictures of our new washer because it's nothing fancy. And because really, who gets excited over a washer? Who gets excited over any of this stuff?

Good bye plywood floor! We are going to tile over you! First we have to lay Cement Board!

Ben enjoys hanging out in the dishwasher nook. Too bad there will be a dishwasher there soon.

Building a Patio

I've mentioned before that we are attempting to build a patio. Last weekend, since the weather was so nice, we figured we would try to get it done. We didn't get it done but we got a lot accomplished. I dug dirt. A lot of dirt. About 2 weeks ago. I think I had about 20 wheelbarrels full. So this week, James leveled it all and did the "smart" work.

We laid crushed stone and sand!

Trying to figure out the pattern to do. Everything looks weathered because James is "borrowing" bricks from a job he is working. They're only going to throw them away so we might as well "borrow" them for a while. Who knows how this will turn out. Neither one of us has ever attempted to build a patio before so we're kind of just winging it.

James has been busy running electrical wire. I forgot to put this one up a while ago - but he wired up an outdoor flood light for the back yard. There's a sensor on this one too so the raccoons will get startled at night when they go to eat all the food our kids drop out back.