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November 27, 2007
A Thanksgiving Detour/Bypass
November 27, 2007 By 2 Comments
We had originally planned to visit Jeff's mom in West Texas for Thanksgiving, but our plans were abruptly changed! The Monday before Thanksgiving I received an email from my mother explaining that my father had called 911 because of some chest discomfort, and he was being taken to the hospital in Springfield. Five years ago [...]
November 14, 2007
Customer service, anyone?
November 14, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Jerah's been involved in 4-H photography this semester which requires that we develop at least one roll of film prior to each Wednesday meeting. So, in our customary fashion, we were at Wal-Mart this morning to develop her film in the One-Hour Photo there. We dropped off the film this morning at 10:30, and were [...]
November 13, 2007
Garage Conversion: It's FINISHED!
November 13, 2007 By 4 Comments
Believe it or not, the garage conversion is finally finished! This is what we did today: installed the carpet weather stripped and insulated (at least a little bit) the attic access installed the outlet covers & closet doorknobs installed two breakers installed a smoke detector installed the ceiling fan touched up some paint hung window [...]
November 13, 2007
Garage Conversion: End of Day Eight & Nine
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We worked a little Saturday evening, and then a LOT Monday. So here's what we accomplished as of Monday night (around midnight): finished texturing sanded the storage room walls primed the walls in the room painted the trim and doors painted the walls the taupe color we chose We also went to IKEA and picked [...]
November 9, 2007
Garage Conversion: End of Day Seven
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Today's "to do" list wasn't quite completed because we ran out of texturing supplies, but John is going to come back tomorrow morning to finish texturing the room. This is what we did accomplish today: sanded the last coat of mud cleaned up the room and vacuumed all the dust taped over all areas that [...]
November 8, 2007
Garage Conversion: End of Day Six
November 8, 2007 By 1 Comment
We wrapped up a lot of things today, so we're ready to texture the walls and ceilings tomorrow! Here's what was completed today: sanded and mudded a second coat finished installing sheet rock in the storage part of the garage, then finished mudding there installed trim around the water heater door removed the threshold and [...]
November 7, 2007
Garage Conversion: End of Day Five
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We've gotten into the phase of the conversion that seems to drag on forever, so today we basically only accomplished two things: installed all the sheet rock taped and applied the first layer of mud Jeff and John took another trip back to Lowes today to return some excess supplies. They were able to return [...]
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