Drywall Hung!

Finished hanging drywall today. Still lots of mess to clean up. Now I need to call about a quote and get the taping scheduled. Still need to go up into attic and tie in electrical line powering outlet in new wall.

Inside new bedroom.

 New wall from living room side.

 

Bedroom wall before.

Bedroom wall after. Door is for new bedroom. No need to hang it until drywall is taped and primed.

Time for a nap. I plan on going to town in the AM to buy trim for the windows and doors in the Living Room & Kitchen. We plan to put up trim Monday. I need a few days to clean up the mess, and rest 😊
God is good, may He bless you and yours.

Almost have a 2nd Bedroom

Marvin & I started hanging drywall in the 2nd bedroom this morning. This is what the 2nd bedroom looked like Monday morning, before I started moving stuff to the shed.

 

By lunch time we had most of the drywall up on the existing walls. Still have a few pieces to put up in the closet and I have to do some work on the lines from the heat pump/air conditioner (bend them to a tighter radius) before we can put up the piece on the left side of the photo below.

 

By the time we quit in the afternoon we had the framing up for the new wall. 

 I had to go into the attic to relocate wiring for the light switch. It was TOASTY up there around noon. I need to go back up there tomorrow morning to connect the line that will feed two new outlets in the new wall. Thankfully it is not nearly as hot here as it is in Missouri. Today's high was 87. Heat index was probably less than 90. At 6PM in Centertown temperature/heat index is still 92/95. 

I'm pleased with our progress.

God is good, may He bless you and yours.

Shelves Up

Didn't do much on Saturday, other than run some errands in Crossville.

Attended another great Sunday morning service at Cumberland Fellowship church in Crossville. Kathy & I have been attending there for around 15 years, whenever we are in Crossville. It seems like every time I am there they have grown a little more, which is great.

In the afternoon I put up the last 2 shelves. We had a light rain during part of the afternoon that didn't do much other than wet the ground. I didn't carry much out to put on the shelves because I didn't want to have to clean up the cabin floor after tracking in dirt from numerous trips.

Potter's Hardware is supposed to deliver a load of sheet rock and 2x4's tomorrow. I need to get the rest of the stuff moved from the cabin to the shed so that Marvin and I an start hanging the remaining drywall starting Tuesday.

God is good, may He bless you and yours.

Long Time Between Posts

My life must be boring to go this long with nothing to post, or, perhaps more likely, I've just been to lazy to do a post.

Lydia, Kathy & I had just arrived in Tennessee when I did my last post. Got to see the "giant Idaho potato" on our trip in to get groceries.

We went to Fall Creek Falls State Park. Kathy is spinning Lydia.

 

Dean bought some sparklers and was giving Lydia a lesson in sparkler use.

They were smokey!

But she enjoyed them.

She also had a great time spending many hours taking advantage of Uncle Tom & Aunt Mary Lou's lake.
Back to Missouri Thursday, July 6th. Traveling is tough.

We stopped for lunch at a McDonalds that was being renovated. Lydia was the first one to eat on one of the new tables. The manager gave Lydia & Kathy free ice cream cones.

It has been HOT in Missouri! Frequent heat index temperatures 100-107 degrees. Kathy had the idea to take the kids to the park in California, MO early one AM, before it got beastly hot. They had a good time.

I had an appointment with an orthopedic guy while in Missouri to talk about the torn ligament in my shoulder. ( Its been torn since 2009 but its getting worse) It was at the point where I couldn't even pick up Nolan without significant pain in my right shoulder, but I could split wood without pain. Figure that one out. I went because I wanted to know if I was making the repair more difficult, or impossible, if I just continued to let it go. I found out that not having it repaired now was not going to make the repair more difficult. My options were surgery and 12 weeks of time before I could pick up 50#, or try a cortisone shot. I opted for the cortisone shot. It has helped, only 1 Ibuprofen since last Tuesday.
I am back in Tennessee. Drove here Wednesday, July 19th. Thursday I spent 45 minutes in the AM and another 45 minutes in the PM weedeating. I still have another hours worth I'd like to get done before heading back to Missouri.
Friday AM I went to town in the AM. Had breakfast at the Triple D Diner, one of my 3 favorite places to eat breakfast (all in Crossville) and ran some errands. Then came home and put up the first shelf in my shed.
Before

 After

Looking at the photos makes it embarrassing that I spent at least 3 hours out there getting cutting and installing the shelf. I was soaking wet with sweat when I finally came in about 6 PM. PTL that the heat index here was only in the mid 90's, it was 107 in Centertown.

Kathy, Kelsey, Lydia & Nolan headed to Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. They stopped along the way and spent the night in a motel with a pool. They are now in Indy to visit Doug & Anthony. This is the week that Cindy's church goes to Indy, from Edon, OH, and does work at the Little Sisters of the Poor. Kathy plans on working there some.

The blog is now officially up to date.

God is good, may He bless you and yours.

Arrved Safely in Tennessee

We (Kathy, Lydia & I) arrived at the cabin about !0:30 last night, a 13.5 hour trip, normally 11 hours. Traffic wasnt bad until we got to wthin 40 miles of Nashville. Speeds were 5-40 mph during that entire 40 miles. Traffic wasnt any worse than normal on the east side of  Nashville until we were almost to Monteray TN. It slowed down to a crawl for a couple of miles and then stopped completely. We didnt move for 90 minutes while 1 emergency vehicle after another zoomed by us on the shoulder. 6-8 cop cars, 8-10 unmarked pickups with flashing lights (volunteer firemen?), an ambulance, a fire truck & 3 wreckers. We saw a helicopter circle the road ahead of us and it appeared to land, probably to evacuate the critically injured. Once we got moving again we saw the accident site. It was less than a mile from us but was over a hill and around a curve. I was driving then (i only drove about 40 miles of the 578 mile trip), Kathy saw 1 badly damaged car that probably went over some guardrail and rolled numerous times.