The back steps

I did, well I started tiling the back steps tonight. I got about half way through and did a quick count of tile in my head then realized that I did not have enough to finish the steps and the landing. Here I am an hour away from the nearest Lowe's and only need 4 more tiles. Big bummer! Oh and then I went to open the back door and found that the door will only open about 2/3's of the way open before the floor catches on some piece of old metal weather strip that goes along the bottom. Another big bummer. I kind of fudged the last pieces and hopefully I will be the only one that will see the "bummers" I left behind.

I was looking at my blog account information and realized that I have posted over 100 entries in the past few months. Quite a milestone I guess in what started out to be nothing more than ramblings and over exuberance of starting a total restore of "my" own house.

I have one home under my belt in refurbing but that was a total gut job and I didn't have much say so in what was going to be done on the inside. I was just what turned out to be the free help and took me 5 years to get it through my head that the house and the relationship was going no where. But that is a WHOLE nuther story, and I did learn allot from both parts of that episode in my life.

Color Pallet

I took a vacation day Friday and had me a four day weekend. And promptly spent the entire weekend in doors and enjoying the nice weather from inside. It was kind of nice setting up the tools outside in the driveway. Saved allot of running up and down those basement steps. I finally finished the nook walls and ceiling. Here are a couple of shots of the breakfast nook ceiling.

Mazie spent her entire weekend helping ME! instead of working on her house. She has been allot of help this weekend and a real trooper. I finished the ceiling late Friday night. We got a call late from Home Depot saying they didn't have the tile I bought the night previously. So we cleaned up and headed down to Bloomington to take a look at the Home Depot down there for tile (it is a bigger store that what we have here) and also stopped at Lowe's. I had decided the night before to skip the floating vinyl floor and go back to the ceramic tile.

Found a cool tile at Lowe's, they had enough for the kitchen and we loaded up and headed home.

Sunday, I spent most of the day caulking the joints on the nook ceiling and cut a few pieces that I left hanging the night before. Mazie told me to call it a day around 3 and some friends came over and we had a cook out, drank a few beers and promptly crashed in the bed at 9:30.

Today, Mazie did a ton of painting while I tackled the tiling of the kitchen floor. I almost got the floor finished but my body just gave out on me and had to call it quits. Again Mazie did all the painting and cheered me on through out the day.

Now I know you are asking where was Sugar all weekend? Well she was at Grand Ma's and spent most of the rest of the weekend hiding in the bedroom, keeping the bed warm, and staying out of the kitchen fray.

Still allot of work to do, and two weeks until the cabinets are delivered. The biggest thing is I won't have cabinets sitting in the living room when they do get delivered. But Sears keeps calling me to come and pick up my stove that has been sitting at the store for 3 weeks.