Next Step - Foundation

Morning Glory just sent more pictures!! We now have a foundation!!










The bump-out will be a lovely breakfast room at the end of the kitchen - this is soooo fun to watch through her camera lens!


We can also see that our neighbors on both sides have finished putting their fences in too! We have met the folks on one side, but the big house on the other side (you can see a play house over the fence) was for sale a long time before it finally sold just a few months ago. We haven't met them yet, but I'm looking forward to that!

Here's a picture from the inside of the larger of the 2 guest rooms, the wall and door came out and a new entry will be built and the room will be enlarged to include the short wall that is just studs now. It will make it a really nice sized bedroom. The rest of the area behind that is all great room!


We'll be going up in early May for a really fast trip to choose lighting and windows! The framing should be started by then! I can hardly wait to see it in person! Thanks MG for sending us pictures!!

Gentlemen - Wield Your Hammers!

Oh my gosh!! They have started!!! Our contractor has done the excavation for the new foot print, and has started 'de-construction' of the back side of our Northern Retirement State home to add a 500 sq ft addition that will turn the 4th bedroom, small dining area and kitchen on the flat back side of the house into a lovely great room, breakfast room and expanded kitchen with views of the park behind us and the beautiful mountains in the distance! This sure doesn't look like that big of an area - but it is!

Here's what the kitchen looked like a week ago -( these pictures were actually taken the day we bought the house)!

Now here's what it looked like yesterday!! Morning Glory went and took pictures for me! Is this neat or what!! They took all the cabinets out and put them in the garage for the time being. Then when the outside is put together they will bring them back in and reset them in a little different configuration!!

Anyone interested in a nice gas stove? I prefer electric and will be buying a new one when we get there.

The guy doing all the ripping apart was sure we'd be horrified at what we saw in the pictures she was taking - but she assured him it would be ok! This is soooo exciting!!

Another Good Read and Other Stuff

I'd like to introduce you to someone I've referred to in my blog as "Darling Wife"! She now has a blog by the name of Sugar Free Cherries! Drop by and say hello when you have the time!

I had a jarring piece of news yesterday - I have 3 herniated discs in my neck! About a month ago we were coming home from Northern Retirement State after a visit, and I muscled my not-too-light carry-on suitcase up into the overhead on the plane. I didn't get it high enough, and it bounced back at me. I caught it a bit off balance and shoved it in again and at the same time felt my neck shift. I thought at the time that I shouldn't have done that, and turns out that I was right!

The pain started in just a few days, and has been relentless for almost 3 weeks! I started going to my chiropractor after the first week, and it wasn't getting any better. He scheduled an MRI for me this last Monday, and I started with an Acupuncturist the same day. I got the results of the test last night and am blown away. I have changed some things in my life forever, by my "I am woman, I am strong" act of hefting my own suitcase over my head instead of asking for some help.

My Chiro and my Acupuncturist both feel they can help, so I am going to continue with both. Actually, today is the first day I have not been in total pain in 3 weeks. I can still feel the tightness - but it has been a good day! Ladies - a word from the wiser - allowing someone to help with the heavy stuff is not a bad thing - does not make me less in charge of my life - and will make the guy in my life happy that he can help me!!