very nice shower!

Post a picture when you get home if you remember. Love fire "thingys"

mforr...pics pics pls want to see the stone house!!!

People were a lot more innovative back then really. No easy way out. :)
Ok jayme, here's my beautiful baby. Labor of love.

Weird.... does the body type of the posts now look different or is it just me?

More and barn and smokehouse, old property

How do you mean kimdee? They look the same to me, I think

None of the outbuildings looked like that when we bought it, and the house was covered in ivy, top to bottom 3/4 of the way around. We like to get older houses and we like to save them. Like my hillbilly beach house with the toilet hanging out the wall, lol

beautiful place, michele. it looks like a home with many rich stories to share.

I should write some, maybe they could pay for the TLC we've given it.

What I mean is, it's a different font on the website than it was before. Less bold and more rounded. Verdana now, not Arial like before.

I can't see the difference in posts from today and 2 days ago, would the new font change old stuff automatically?

Yeah, it would be a site-wide coding change. Here's the old and the new. They can't fool me, type expert that I am! I noticed it right away.

Good eye kimdee :)

@mforr ....Gorgeous!! I LOVE it...just beautiful!!! To die for!!.....now more of the inside pls!!
Hey guys...check out these mahogany door Chuck installed in a home....

Those are pretty cool, I like the woven effect :)

The Victorian cottage gets a new roof! The roofing crew started today on redoing the house and garage roof for my cute little cottage. Today's task was tearing off the roof over the kitchen and also the front porch. I'm not sure whether they'll tackle the rest of the house tomorrow or do the garage. Garage has 4 layers of roofing to tear off so quite a project. The house has two layers over the original cedar. Then, after the old stuff is off, the entire roof has to be decked since the cedar shake didn't require regular roof decking.

Putting on the roof deck wasn't in the original quote but the guy isn't charging me much at all to do the labor. The entire quote was really low, but the guy needs the work and he knows I pay my bills. As soon as the roof is done, he gets a handful of green paper. He's done a couple roofs for me and does decent work for a great price. The guys aren't making much money but they are working and getting enough to tide them over until the general contractor that owes them a lot of mooney pays his account.

It really ticks me off when some of the roofing contractors (or anyone else) subcontract work and then short pay or slow pay the labor. The guys up there working their A$$ off in the heat aren't earning much more than minimum wage and then they have to wait a couple weeks before they can collect what they're owed.

@mforr...there are sidelights on each side and above...the door cost $17,000, and my hubby was entrusted to install...

@Jaymee - I love those doors! Your hubby does some interesting projects

@Kimdee - You have quite the eye for detail! Even if I would have noticed that the page looked different, I couldn't have told you why.

Mforr - Love that stone house. Our house is brick and masonry houses do hold the heat or cool very well. But, when this house gets really hot or cold, it takes forever to get it comfortable again.

Dang, jayme, people are crazy, he should charge them a large percentage of the cost of doors. :))
Why on earth would someone pay that for a door? Good for Chuck but crazy for them

That's true Linda, sometimes when it's very hot during the day, at night the stone releases some of that back into the house. But generally it's pretty constant. I love brick houses too and brownstones.

In winter, our house is cozy warm when it is cold outside. But, in the shoulder seasons, the house feels very chilly. The furnace will kick on in the morning and then it is just warm enough that the heat doesn't kick on again for hours but the walls are cool and that sets up air currents in the rooms and you feel drafts.

I'm glad my roofers got felt on the the house roof but they didn't get felt on the porch roof, just the new plywood. It wasn't supposed to rain but we're right in the middle of a thunderstorm and that plywood is going to get wet. Shouldn't be a major problem but perhaps they'll have to wait for a while until it dries out tomorrow

I'm off to the airport to get my hubby - he's been at a client site for 3 days but home now for the rest of this week and hopefully all of next week

Had dinner in asbury park and then went to the silverball pinball museum. Played a bunch of pinball on machines from the 50's thru the 90's, what a blast :)
Another college visit, gotta get up early tomorrow, so beddy byes for me, goodnight ladies, see you tomorrow sometime
I enjoyed opening the festivities today and hope I didn't bore anyone with my pictures. Thanks for the comments on house. Night!!! :)

I made dinner tonight for my best friend, who I haven't seen for about two months (maybe more). No excuse really since we live so close together, but it was good to see her. I made a beer can chicken with roasted dilled potatoes and salad. Oh and apple pie for dessert. It was yum!

Aww Kimdee... Sounds delish.

Sorry for missing out on the entire of today's discussion. It was quite busy today and some interesting calls. A Tiger Balm ingestion (gross!), drug induced psychosis that was tasered, and a few bad lying drunks. Just finally got a chance to catch up.

Any foreign bodies needing removal?

I could get a good car for the price of that door..btw...crazy!

No foreign bodies... thank goodness.

WHYYY would anyone ingest Tiger Balm? Why?? I hope it wasn't a child at least.

Kimdee - some questions you just shouldn't ask...

Hmmm. Sounds like one of those things "I just don't want to know.... " lol

At least she didn't smell bad.

Well, there's that. Yeesh.

Is it bad that I've eaten half of an apple pie tonight? This is why this stuff just can't come home with me.

At least it's a fruit. Fruit is good for you.

Good thing I'm playing every day for five days straight starting Friday! My strategy is to get rid of the pie as quickly as possible....

Robin will have to respond to a sugar coma call in South Edmonton....

Hahaha.

I was at WalMart the other day and found a t-shirt for my daughter that says 'Food Coma - I haz it' with a picture of a panda who has eaten too much. Thought it was fitting given how much that child loves her food.

And speaking of food comas - I'm working at Heritage Days on Monday. (A cultural and food festival) I'm there for 11 hours so I think my goal will be to try a food from every pavilion. Eat my way from one end of the park to the other.

I haven't been to Heritage Days in years! Looks like the weather will be decent for it, especially since you are working.... good luck with the food pavilions!

I am off to bed, I can barely keep my eyes open. Nite all and sweet dreams. xoxo

Night all.

hi dave, great to hear from you. so happy to hear you're on the mend. you're a very creative guy so i would expect your office to have a studio environment to constantly feed that energy.

DAVE! So glad you are feeling better and glad you are here with us again! Can't wait to see the pics, we will all be jealous of your new space I am sure!

Good to hear that all is well David.

I'm off to pick up materials from a deck. Someone who works with us occasionally helped to do some remodeling at a bar recently and they need to have an old deck removed. Supposedly some of the wood is new and the rest is in decent shape. i actually need some used decking because the current project house needs a few boards replaced on the deck and it sticks out too much to use brand new boards on an existing deck.

I'm also going to stop at ReStore today and buy a couple of boards. They have an entire group of salvaged old growth 2x8s, up to 14 feet long...shorter ones for $6 and longer ones for $8 or $10...real 2 x 8 dimensions and gorgeous wood. I've got a couple garage doors to repair and I would like to make a garden bench as well.

Have a fun day everyone!

hi DAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!