Electric Light Orchestra!

It's been a while, what's been happening?  Mostly electrics. Pulling cables...

And then some plumbing.....the upstairs bathroom toilet.  We are having a wall mounted toilet and so the cistern is inside the wall, turns out you can buy these from England and have them shipped for less than they cost in 'Merica!  It's German, and so I bet that changes after Brexit. 

"vote leave if you want to poop for pounds, vote remain if you want to poop for pennies"...

We've had a lovely sunny weekend, and the girls had their boyfriends from Washington to visit...

I've been getting my garden in order.  I have seeds started in the greenhouse, and my potatoes have been doing some sprouting....

Today they got settled into their bins...

Mr. M is putting me in a new bed, this is going to be home to additional dahlias and cutting flowers, I am dedicating 2 beds to flowers this year....

I also have carrots, radishes, beets and parsnips in the ground, (coincidently we just ate the last parsnip from 2018 today).  Won't be long and we will be enjoying this years harvest.  I still have some overwintering cauliflowers that are now starting to develop heads, they taste so good.  I am so pleased I continued to grow something through the winter, even one thing everything week or so makes everything else taste better.

I did this and I did that....

This week it was some of this, some of that and some of t'other….

More light boxes..

Venting in the downstairs bathroom...

Another sliding door mechanism being put in between the guest bedroom and bathroom.....

Something fancy for internet, telephone cables, our very own media station!

And finally it takes 5 months to put shingles on the wall, and just a couple of minutes to cut them off, another outside socket placement that was previously forgotten....

February was a tough month weatherwise for the Pacific Northwest, snow and rain was in abundance,  We ended up with 19 inches for the month, which nearly beat our last recorded high of  20 inches in October 2016.  Thankfully March has started off the opposite... Soon be Spring!

There's a urinal in ma house, wha' am'I gonna do!

This week's run down....

Fitting a pocket (sliding) door to the upstairs bathroom, a slider gives us more room in our bathroom and bedroom, space is a premium with windows on the outside wall.  Framed...

Slider door mechanism....

Split studs to create a pocket for the door to slide into....

More lighting placements have been completed, soon be ready to start pulling cables...

And finally - why is there a urinal in my house Mr. M?  Ok, so it isn't a urinal, it's a metal box for the flexi hose on the dryer to sit in, and be attached to the duct venting to the outside...

It's all going on over here!

Plotting, Scheming and Planning....

This week Mr. M's been mostly plotting, scheming and planning!  Five months on the shingles and he's forgotten what it's like to have to plan ahead and have supplies.  Lots of planning…..

 

One out of town shopping trip, and he has supplies.....

 

Back to work Mr. M!

I've also been busy plotting, scheming and planning, I'm working on my "vision" boards OR as I prefer to call them my "things that make my heart happy" boards....

Apart from that we've been deluged with rain this week, 8.5 inches to be precise!

And then there was this, Holy Hail Batman.....

I've said it before.....

....and I'll say it again, in my next life I'ma gonna marry me!!!!

No house progress this week, 'cos Mr. M has the BEST wife.  Snowmobiling fun over at Crescent Lake in Central Oregon! Thanks Butch, I nominate you to help get the house done in the summer :) :)

I did get to enjoy some snow too, it isn't all work and no play in my life donchaknow....
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