Lacey & Pink

Maybe only Mom & Leanna will be interested in Lacey's newly painted, very bright pink room but here it is! This is the color she picked out. I think she's had her kitchen about a year and it's in the living room.

We had one drywall guy here for maybe 4 hours today. He tells me they will be done by sometime next week but couldn't tell me what day they'll be spraying which they're going to have to do twice. I'm not going to start getting excited again until the painters are about half done and we know the walls are ok.
Bill is hauling corn from the bins to the elevator today. I'm getting ready for a Stampin' Up! workshop at a home in West Bend tomorrow morning. The hostess thinks she has 11 coming. Glenn is putting the new fender on the Pilot for me today.

In Limbo

Yesterday we had 2 guys working on the drywall in the house and today one. They are still working on the seams and edges, etc. But, as far as the bubbling problem . . . we think the plan is to use a new/trial machine to spray a thin coat over everything. This will be enough moisture over it all to tell them if there are too many bubbles to fix without having to tear it off and start over. We haven't heard when this is going to happen. Otherwise, with Bill putting 3 dehumidifiers in there and keeping a heater going (besides the furnace) things have been drying nicely now. We had hoped the painters would be getting started about today . . . At least we now have a roof, siding and furnace and don't have to worry about the weather. Could use some gutters though! Greg says he's concerned about water/rain until they're on.

We had warm & cloudy weather yesterday but lots of wind today and the temp. is going back down.

Bill was working on the planter today checking it out and getting it ready for spring planting. I delivered a stamp order and am getting ready for a Sat. workshop in West Bend. Bill is at a grocery board meeting tonight. Hoping that they hear that business has picked up since the last meeting.

I Hate Flies Almost As Much As Spiders Now!

Nothing much going on with the house - still working on the drywall - so I'm going to complain about the flies - again! Can you believe we still have flies in this house with all of the zero and below zero weather we've had this winter?? Wouldn't you think they would've all been frozen? On sunny days there will be about 3 of them buzzing around about every window. Then at night a couple will buzz around the lamp near your head next to where you're sitting. Then when we get up in the morning 3-6 are laying dead on the floor below each window and in various other places around the house. Or, what really makes me mad is if I go around and vacuum them all up, about an hour later there will be 3-4 dead on the floor that have appeared in that short amount of time. But I am thankful that since I've lived here we've had waaaaaaaay more flies than spiders which is a good thing!!! Bill had me worried about all the spiders he said he had! Flies just make me mad but spiders scare me! The other thing about dead flies - lots of times when you pick up a dead one (with a kleenex!), a leg or two is always left laying there! Ugh. Bill's mom gives me hope - in her "newer"/tighter home she has very few flies!!

We do have a potential problem with the drywall - mostly in the master bedroom. It is bubbling when moisture is put on it, like the drywall mud, and it will do it when painted. Someone from the company that makes it came out today and someone else higher up is coming out tomorrow to decide how bad it is and what they'll do about it. I'm trying not to think about it. We don't want any more delays.

Big Shot Video

I mentioned the Big Shot in last week's stamping post. Stampin' Up! has added a video on how to use the Big Shot along with our new Movers & Shapers Curly Label die to my web site - click on my site above right. Then click on the video arrow on the Featured Project.

This machine is used for both scrapbooking and card making. Scrappers love the Serif Essentials alphabet for page titles. Our new Texturz plates give a subtle dry embossed background - with 6 patterns included in Backgrounds I for $11.95 and 6 with the Texture Plates Kit #4 for $9.95! Great prices for the variety of backgrounds you get! The Texturz Plates are used with the Multipurpose Platform, Impressions Pad and Silicone Rubber.

Sale-A-Bration is in full swing and runs until March 31st. Anyone ordering online through my web site with an order of any size will receive a free Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog (while supplies last)!

Seed Tender

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! After many years of being single on this couples' holiday, it's nice to have Bill to spend it with. We're going out to eat at Unkie's in the town of Thor tonight.

It's a sunny day, the seed tender was out, and I forgot my camera! This is a picture I took of it a couple days ago - on the left. This is at Bill's mom's house.

I just helped Bill move some things around - he needed to get the planter out of the equip. shed which meant moving the semis, the combine and a wagon out first so I was his eyes on the ground to make sure there was clearance on the sides. He moved the planter to Tim's shed and I assume they're going to start getting it ready for spring.

We're locking the new house now after there was a break in at Carquest a couple nights ago. So I got up at 6:15 to unlock it since some of the current workers get here really early, and they had said someone would be working today. No one showed up!

Misc.

This is our church's bus. The boys left this morning with their Ignite youth group for Acquire the Fire in Minneapolis this weekend. They get back Sun.

Cloudy day here but at least all the snow missed us. Des Moines is getting over 5".



This is our old dump truck that has been put to good use for trash lately. Tonight I carried a bunch of foam type insulation and boards up from the basement to the truck while Bill put up more OSB board in the storm room. He's almost done. Our walls are still being worked on - one guy today. They're trying to get things to dry and running fans 24 hours a day.



Remember that pile of 22 pine trees? (Jan. 8th post) This is what's left! Bill was pushing it together and lit it after I left.

I sorted a Stampin' Up! order that came in, delivered to a customer in West Bend this afternoon and caught up on SU! paperwork among other things.