More walls up, more floor down

We tried to be extra productive this last weekend, since we only have 1 more weekend until Thanksgiving and then Holidays are in full swing and we'll be busy every weekend in December.

So, we got more walls put up, and are getting sooo close to having all the subfloor done. The Subfloor is really my project (I guess Matt figured I couldn't screw that up, haha), and while it was kind of fun at first... that quickly grew old. We just have so many odd shaped areas and nooks where you have to cut the panels to fit, such a pain. Oh well, one upside is that I have been forced to become comfortable using the power saw... and after about panel 100... I have to say I feel like a pro. =) Ok, not a pro, but at least I'm not scared to death of sawing off a finger anymore.

The first wall is up

We are finally putting up walls. Matt has a system down, building the walls on the floor and then we hoist them up and attach them to the ceiling beams and the floors. Here is a picture of the first wall we put up. Hoping to get all of them done in the next few weeks before Thanksgiving. It actually seems to be going quite smoothly so far, and I think after this last weekend we have about 1/3 of the exterior walls done. We will see...

Flowers everywhere

We went with my parents to the Marysville Rotary Auction this last weekend. My dad is really involved with Rotary and its a great cause raising money for scholarships for kids. We've gone the last couple years and always have a good time. Hopefully as we get older we will be able to donate more to great foundations like Rotary and give back to the community. Anyways... we didn't walk away with too many auction items this year, but did make it home with these beautiful flowers!

I thought these would be way to huge for our house... and they are very large... but are kinda fun for a week taking over our dining room table. 

Beautiful little centerpiece I picked up! Fits right in with our little pumpkin on the kitchen table. 



Happy Halloween!

Mmmm...

Apparently Trader Joe's has it's own reserve wines (kinda like Charles Shaw), but instead of $3, its about $8 I believe... probably the cheapest Pinot Noir I've ever found, and I have to say it's better than I thought it would be. Perfect for a night at home carving my pumpkin...

end of the season

Harvested this last bounty of tomatoes from our yard this week just as the rains came in. Man we lucked out this year... for how bad the weather was this summer, we sure seemed to do well with our tomatoes and other vegetable/herbs.

I also learned a trick last year... you harvest all the remaining tomatoes at the end of the year (before it gets really cold and rainy) even the green ones. Put the green ones in a couple pieces of newspaper wrapped up... and they end up turning red and ripe also!

Basement Subfloor

Now that all our insulation is in, the crawl space is finished, and the last bits of the furnace are done... its on to the next project, putting in our new subfloor. This layer of floor will go down on top of the concrete, and provide a layer between that and the future carpet we will be putting down.

We are also using a cool product (I actually heard of it while watching various DIY shows on HGTV...and then we checked it out and bought it at Home Depot) called DRIcore. It comes in square panels which we can snap together, and has plastic with ridges on the bottom of it (this is in case any moisture gets in, it wont get up to our floor/carpet, and can drain under our subfloor). We thought this would be a great extra precaution for our basement just in case there are ever moisture problems in the future.

We got started on it this last weekend, and its going pretty quickly. I think it will just take another weekend to get it done. (fingers crossed)