Saturday, March 7, 2009

Thank you, Denny and Barbara!

The ceiling fan on the cathedral ceiling.

The vent-free gas fireplace.

Range hood.

Basement stairway railing and wall light.

Fan on porch/living room.

Shelf on Dutch door.

We went to the farm today. Barbara and Denny arrived from the campground with a load of aluminum from the dismantling of the portable porch. Bonnie went into the basement to begin taping and mudding the drywall while Kathy headed to the campground to empty the shed. Barbara and Denny were right on her heels and they made fairly quick work of it. Well, kind of. The shed fell completely apart when we tried to put it in Denny's trailer.

The comedy began when Kathy, Denny and Barbara arrived back at the farm and attempted to put the shed back together...in the wind...and in a place other than where Bonnie had originally told Denny to put it. And, try as we might, we could not get that shed together. And, believe me, we tried again, and again, and again. Until Barbara decided it might help to look at the instructions. Surprise! We then were able to put it together! Once together and weighted down on the floor with some cement blocks, Denny and Barbara headed home while Kathy put everything back in the shed. For all of their hard work, we hope to treat Barbara and Denny to dinner at Biaggi's in the next few weeks.

June and Scooby stopped by for a short visit and June was complimentary of what she saw. While she was there, Rex and LeeAnn arrived to continue their work. Rex wants to get the electric done and then get on to the plumbing. Everything they have done looks just great. They are making so much progress. All the lighting and the fans look even better than we thought they would. It was hard to pick these items out when we had no idea what the cottage was going to look like when they went up. And the vent-free fireplace had been brought up from the basement and put in place. It looked nice. Also, as promised, Rex brought the hot water heater out of Denny's barn and into the basement.

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