House update- No more leaves to rake

It's been a long time since the last post. I don't think I've ever gone this long between posts but we've been busy and our router died so we had to share the wifi card.

Of course we've been working on the house pretty much daily and making our almost daily trip to Menards. Actually I think we have it down to once a day so things are looking up.

We purchased a 5 gallon pail of primer. I don't think I mentioned that the whole house is painted in a high gloss and dark colors. So we need to use primer in every room. We've been working on the kitchen to try and get that completed. Not sure if any of you remember some of the posts about the colors and putting wains-coating up. Well scratch all that. Decided against the wains-coating and green colors. All this was decided when we were walking back to the paint dept at Menards. The ceiling and about three quarters of the walls will be a light gray, the other quarter is a pumpkin color (called Spanish Tile) and the trim around the windows is a dark gray. Oh the crown molding and chair rail will be a dark gray. Trust me once you see the finish project it will look great (I hope).

The other night we had a one heck of a wind storm, know rain, thunder or lighting, just the wind. I was just starting to get back to sleep when the phone rang. Our new neighbor wanted to let us know that part of that tree in the back yard came down on our garage.

Here's what the tree looked like last fall
This is what we saw the next morning

Our poor neighbors ended up with the top of this trunk in their patio

Not a pretty site, especially when our neighbors were having their daughters open house in two days and that patio was the point of gathering.

So first a quick call to the insurance agency than one to the major Tree Service in our area. The guy came out within a hour but said it would probably be Friday or early Sat. morning, until he checked the standing tree. When the limb went down it put a rather large split in the base trunk and he said the next storm (which was forecast for the following day) would probably take it down. Not good since this portion would go thru the house. So he said he'd see if he could make some changes in the scheduled appointments and get back with us. By 1:30 that afternoon we had a crane, bucket truck, chipper and dump truck lining our little street.

Three and a half hours later they were removing the last of the tree.

I've posted lots of pictures on our Webshot so take a look if your interested in seeing this hundred year old tree taken down. I guess the bright side is I won't have all those damn leaves next fall to rake. Oh and the neighbors patio is all cleaned up and ready for their party.

Weather has been a little crazy here. The rain finally quit but than the 90 degree temp's moved in. That lasted a few days than the cold front came (which brought the wind) and today's temperature was 60 and the rain is back.

So that's about it. Will try and post soon but really not much to write about. Painting and more painting isn't very exciting.

Till next time.....................................