Kevin comes home tomorrow! This is such a good thing as last year he didn't have much time home over the holidays. This year he will be home starting the 19th and flying out on the 5th... this is good matchy matchy with the kids last day before the holidays and first days back to school after the holidays. Hopefully Dean can get over this afternoon to finish up the dwnstrs bthrm... this will be such an accomplishment for this household as we tend to be starters and not finishers ;) More so on Kevin's behalf (even though he hasn't been here for the majority of this project) but I do tend to fall into it on occasion, but not very often.

We don't really have any plans for whilest Kevin is home and the kids are out of school... just really for tomorrow and Saturday... tomorrow after I pick him up from the Comox airport and then rush back as cautiously as possible with the roads being icy and snowy get the kids from school... head straight over to Pa's for our tree, Pa will come for dinner once he's done for the day with the tree's, Billie has youth group... movie night so we will decorate the tree Saturday morning..... and after that maybe we'll get some good quality Christmas shopping done ...lol! Nothing like leaving it to the last minute ;)

In the mean time I'll be getting the second and hopefully last coat of paint on the bthrm ceiling and walls, tiding up the house in general, figuring out what food we need to get before it's to to busy in the grocery stores... knitting up Kevin's second comically long sock and starting Pa's pair... no time like the present to get stuff done!

I almost forgot I still need to make a bag for my Q4 bag swap partner!
This I rember as I'm blocking the just felted bags.

If only I could have another helping of time!

Got some more work done today in the dungeon... Dean came over and spent a couple of hours leveling the very small floor space. I then got him to plane down the tops of the new doors in order to get them to close properly in this old house.... he's a good guys and a good worker... maybe errr a little slow sometimes. He owed us approx 23 hours as Kevin had done some work for him over the last year, mainly last fall, those hours are all used up now so we are on the clock as of tomorrows work visit, $20.00 / hr... ouch! but hey I guess if he gets the job done and maybe he'll be a bit more to the task when he's being paid then when he's so to speak working for free.

I have been busy in the basement going through stuff and getting  more stuff set aside to go to the thrift and CDA. Joanne mentioned today when she came over for a visit that CDA  (Canadian Diabetes Assoc. they call head and then come around every so often taking a collection that then gets sold to the thrift and the moneys are put into the Diabetes assoc.) is coming down our road Monday, so I will be sure to get it together for a donation for them as it saes me a trip to the thrift. As for the manuverablitie of the dungeon well it's still awkward to say the least.

One day it will be better... one day at a time is what it takes, one day at a time.

For now it is a work in progress :)

Well I've got a coat of primer on the bathroom.
Now all I need to do is call Dean up and let him know that he can come and do the floor leveling compound... then I'll do the first coat of the wall color and get him to come back and put the flooring down, install the toilet and sink.

Yipee!  very close we are indeed!

I can see a second bathroom in our near future :)