Oh what a nice glorious sunny day we are having here today..... but cmon! Yesterday was snowing, sleating....windy windy windy.... so I didn't head over to Quadra for my spinning group, home I stayed. And then today is absolutely marvelous! I just can't believe this winter weather sometimes.

So hear I am today cleaning up the mess downstairs (includes sink covered in paint and all painting stuff still covered in paint as well.....like really? still covered in paint! NICE) that Kevin has left for me to deal with when it is oh so nice outside.....

Well the bedroom has been moving along quite nicely this week.

With Dean getting all of the walls mudding completed and today we are getting the ceiling up!!!
It actually is starting to feel like a real room now , especially with out being able to see the floor joists and all of the insulation that we put up for sound proofing between the two rooms (up down that is).
We will soon have the girl up and the boy down. Who knows how that will go but we have pout in a lot of extra insulation to help deaden the noise that they produce in efforts to annoy each other.

Soon, soon, soon!!!!!

The dungeon  to basement tranformation is coming along rather well. I now have an almost complete bathroom, running water at the sink and the toilet will be installed over the next day or two, the light fixture and towel racks and what not can go up whenever and just a touch up coat of paint and well be done (the shower doors will be in in the new year) and we will have an almost three peice bathroom!

All of this basement work / action has come at a cost for sure though... usually at thi s time of year I spend nearly ever day witrh my Pa over at his tree farm just keeping him company and helping with the tree stuff.... Itt is so nice to sped the time with him and see all of the happy families coming and going. He has seasonal music playing so that you can here it outside... and a couple of years ago we were offering spiced cider, but I imagine this year without my help he isn't doing that. We all really enjoy Pa's place as we have all had a hand in helping to develope the tree farm. We all helped with some clearing when he first purchased the land and Kevin has planted many of the trees, Billie goes over every year and fertilizes the trees, she also helps with the baby trees when they need their first handle pruning done. I help mow inbetween the trees during the growing season as the grass gets quit tall during the summer months.... and well Kayne he likes to supervise :) He has yet to really truly do anything with the trees, but his time will come. Well I guess you could say that he is the checker / driver as he likes to take Pa for rides on the golf cart down into the feild.
We always get our tree from pa's place but have yet to get one as Kevin won't be home until Friday the 19th, so the plan is to go right after the kids are out of school and get our tree and then put it up first thing Saturday morning. I guess you could say that we are cutting it a bit close but we would all rather wait for Kevin to be home to take part in the tree action with us.

5 great big shelves down!

3 to go!

Floor space makes me feel happy in this room,  as I haven't seen it for several years :)