Journey

My favorite poem is "The Journey" by Mary Oliver. I've been doing some duet-like oil paintings with this theme in mind. Thinking of the little wren (or whomever) heading off into the great unknown- beautiful, frightening, doing as Mary Oliver says "determined to do the only thing you could do-determined to save the only life you could save."

March 14-18

Monday-Friday-the floor just about done- just the molding in the hallway. It's much more beautiful than I thought - my first look, through the plastic hanging in front of the doorway was not that positive- it looked darker and more choppy than I had remembered- and like it would not go with the old oak floors. But....it looks great and we're very happy with it. The room is almost done!

Saturday we put the rug in- and the closet has doors too!


Maggie and Camelia are getting their first look!

Week Twentyone-March 7-11

Monday-Friday-the floor started to happen this week.

Week Twenty-February 28-March 4

Monday-Friday-Maybe the tile for the bathroom will happen this week. Yesterday we ordered an 8x11 rug for the room and a runner for the hall- Overstock.com is my best source. The rug is polypropalene-should be sturdy- a green/neutral color. We also went to Lowe's and got a ceiling fan for the room-small - 44" inch.
Tuesday-the tile is in...it's beautiful.
Friday-the grout is in- the bathroom is gorgeous- think I'll just get a chair and sit and look at it!

Week Nineteen-February 21-25

Camelia is dreaming about her new room- she thinks it's within reach!!

Monday-Presidents' Day- Jim and I both home- lots going on.Looks like this will be another week of painting- hopefully FINISHING painting. Today seems like it will be prepping for wall painting and maybe spraying walls (liveable green and friendly yellow!). Green for big room and hall; yellow for bath and 2nd bedroom. Stuart's guy Salvador and his cousin are also coming today to dig more along the side of the house- to continue the french drainage system to the sidewalk. We have the drain factory going on over there-drains in the concrete, sump pump and concrete drain as well. The gutters will empty into the drains as well. The Cox cable guy spent most of the day here too- fixing broken cable wiring.

Tuesday- Mauricio-a perfectionist, painted the cabinets today

Wednesday- The bedroom is painted!

Friday- They finished the hallway, room and doors - and put the doors back on- after a week of no bathroom door!


The bathroom looks almost done! -no floor, but painted walls and part of the cabinets put together. It's beautiful.

Week Eighteen-February 14-18

Monday-Friday-A week of painting. Painting more primer/paint on outside and trim on inside.
Window trim....

Hall trim....

Overview of room trim....


Cabinet priming....


Door handles...

Doors installed and handles on- mostly...then removed again to paint. Plastic, fumes, etc.Friday we spent the night at Jan and Bryan's because of the fumes. Trim looks really good though.

Week Seventeen-February 7-11

Monday-A BIG week. Concrete was poured this week around the house-whoever thought it would be so beautiful! It took a couple of days to dry.
Wednesday-Thursday-The painters came and continued to work on the outside of the house. This week they've pretty much finished the primer.

Friday- House encased in plastic so paint spray wouldn't spread. It seems to still be primer. Mike came and worked on installing some of the new doors. I really like the closet doors - wasn't really sold on the bifolds we had decided on and Mike put regular doors in- they look great.