Not Done Yet

Well, the bathroom remodel is ongoing, but we're close. The shower is 6 tiles short and the bathtub will be hooked up today, hopefully, along with at least one sink - we've always had at least one functional toilet throughout. Only remaining painting to be done is trim, one closet, and touch-ups. Things of course take longer than expected, but it's coming together nicely. The floors are wonderful!

The kids have returned from their camping adventure with Opie & Omie. You can see details on mom's blog here. This week will be interesting since the Wii is off getting fixed due to overheating and John is busy with the bathrooms, but so far they've managed to entertain themselves well and stay out of trouble :) Ashlyn even helped me paint a few times!

We had another wake up call this morning - Cleo was barking incessantly - at a rattlesnake curled up on the sidewalk next to the house. We proceeded to dispose of it quickly :) It's good to have these reminders that they're out there every so often... as long as the animals find them before we do!

We've also had some hairy weather lately, but fortunately the worst missed us. Friday night we were under 3 separate tornado warnings and Hilda was mentioned too many times by the weatherman - as in "This tornadic supercell will be in the Hilda area in 15 minutes" YIKES! We had the closet cleaned out and ready to go. We heard there was some damage about 4 miles from us, but we just had rain, thankfully! Here are some stills off of video that I took during the lightning as the storm was approaching - before we were mentioned as in the direct path (I wasn't worrying about pictures anymore at that point)!!!


And in the meantime, since I can't post pics of the finished bathrooms yet, I thought you might get a kick out of our redneck bathtub-on-a-porch that we used a few times this past week ;)