First of all we are working on a bathroom remodel. I so wisely decided that a few weeks before hunting season was a good time to demo the kids bathroom. Someone should have reminded me of this little sign before I went and let the kids rip out the bathroom.
I've been thinking seriously about buying this sign off Etsy for our fall decor! Check it out here .
Anyway, on with the story. So the bathroom was demolished, down to the studs, wires and plumbing. To ease the eye sore we put the shower curtain up along the bathroom wall to hide the mess. I have to give myself some credit here, we did leave the toilet functional until this last week when we needed to get some demo done behind it. There it sat a disaster.....the tub was still partially full of yet to be hauled away sheetrock pieces for a couple months. Hmmm, well my patience got a work out as we progressed through 4 hunting seasons, weddings, hog butchering process, more hunting (you get the idea)! Then finally, slowly but surely, progress has started in the right direction on the bathroom remodel.
So that is the #1 goal for this immediate time, get back to 2 fully functioning bathrooms...because Sunday mornings are interesting with 6 people sharing 1 bathroom!
#2 Goal~ Finish all the trim work in the kitchen. We still have a custom range hood to design and install, lots of crown molding on the tops of cabinets, window trim, base cabinet end caps and snack bar trim work to complete. It won't take long once we get all the wood stained and ready and a free weekend to get it completed.
#3 Start work on the shop project, even if it is just getting the plans figured out and footings dug! We NEED a more enclosed shop. I am afraid our investment in tools is going down the drain as they get weathered each month that passes. Having them under a roof is good, but walls around them would be much better, especially on those wind/rain/snow days! We need a secure place to keep our tools and supplies and it is beyond time to have a place to keep the extra freezers and frig. Having 2 large freezers and an extra frig in the house is proving to be a little noisy at night and not very aesthetically pleasing to look at. What is supposed to be the dining or breakfast nook in our house is full of appliances instead! This project might have to be something we do in stages to be able to afford getting it done. Slab first, walls/windows/doors second, wiring third etc.
#4 Fencing projects. We need to get a few fences more fortified around here. The back property line fence needs some serious work, the deer have really torn it up and broken every hot wire we've try to put up. So we need something stronger, taller, and more imposing to discourage the pesky deer from using the orchard trees to remove the velvet from their horns next fall! grrrr We'd like to work on some more defined corrals and possibly shelters for the horses, add a couple more pens to be able to board more horses for additional income or for our own horse one day.
#5 Find my go get'em energy and motivation to do a lot of it with the kids so Mr. Wonderful won't have all the burden of trying to work on projects.
That should bring us into spring projects and I can't even think about those yet, so we will focus on getting these few things done first, heck even getting started on some of these winter projects would be good!
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