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1 month and counting

One month left until Baby #2 comes. Technically 5 weeks, but we're pushing for her being a little early. We've got one more ultrasound next week which could bump up the due date.

Makena parted ways with her changing table and crib this weekend and helped me get it ready for baby sister. We've got the new baby's room (and most of the garage) roughly organized now. No car in the garage yet, but significant progress has been made :).

Pictures of Makena and the new house are forthcoming.

59 degrees and dropping

Welp, 13 hours until the furnace gets installed. Which is good because I don't know if I can handle another night by myself in here. It reminds me of living in 1100 before we decided to turn the heat on... except I don't have a space heater (other than the Hun).

Busted Furnace

It was 61 degrees in the house this morning, which makes for a cold transition out of the shower. Erika and Makena have been living at her mom's for the week since the furnace gave out on Sunday. It could be the thermostat, could be the furnace. Either way we were planning on replacing the old oil furnace with an electric one in November, so this just bumps up our time table (hurray).

Rich is coming over to help me run a couple 240 lines to power this sucker tomorrow. Should be good times. (Don't worry mom, he knows what he's going). The new furnace gets installed on Friday, so I only have two more freezing nights alone with the Hun. I might wimp out and head over the Leanna's tonight though...

The riches of this world are fleeting

Last night our house was broken into (burgled, if you will). Fortunately neither of us were home, they didn't do too much damage and they didn't take anything that isn't easily replaced. They got a couple TVs, XBox, my guitar (grrr...), DVDs, laptop, etc... Not the most pleasant experience, but it could have been worse.

Here's a link to the pics:

http://picasaweb.google.com/bvandenbos/TheBreakIn

This Old House - Episode #1

So, Tim, David, and Kristin came over on Saturday and we tore down an old wall in the basement and re-sheetrocked it. Fortunately David knows what he is doing and showed me and Tim what to do. We started by ripping down some of the old ceiling tiles and dry wall. I've got a couple scabs on my knuckles from punching through it. Hey, it's not very often that I get to punch through drywall. Gotta take advantage of it when I can.

7 hours, 4 sheets of rock, 70 feet of spacer boards, 1.5 pizzas, 4 beers, several pounds of mud, 2 garage cans of junk, 1 shop vac filled with dust, and 2 trips to Home Depot later there was a wall where there wasn't one before. Booyah. Fine, there was a wall there before, but it wasn't as cool.

Next week's episode: installing trim.













































Screwing in the rock.



















Me fitting the corner piece.























one piece hung.























That is is one good looking end.






















Get that wall!























Down to the studs...














Whoops. Looks like we left 3 of the studs out. Nice.