Skylights, a Mermaid for Jackhammers, Jugs, 3 Floors and Surprsingly Pretty Red Flowers

To begin, we have all the flooring up in the kitchen and have reinstalled a plywood subfloor, ready for tile when we get to that stage. Warren pulled up 3 layers of linoleum and 3 layers of subfloor to go with them. Apparently the idea was (as many have done before) just to go right over the top of the existing floor...no one will ever know! Well, there was 1 3/8" of flooring in the kitchen. The wood subfloor we laid now transitions to the wood floors in the hallway and dining room perfectly, with out the big trip on the threshold. I mean that I would trip on those sections going in and out of the kitchen. Big time.

Our friends Kyle and Alicia just had a baby in March, and I painted the nursery for the, in trade for Kyle coming to take out the concrete all over our property. This is her sweet mermaid themed nursery. And, here is Kyle working the jackhammer. he taught Warren how to run one too, so between the two of them, we have a lot of rubble, but all the sidewalk things are gone, the old steps from the back doors, and the RV parking which will change into a vegetable garden when Ron gets his magic done.

Here are the surprisingly pretty red flowers. All of a sudden they were in full bloom, and they've not been watered or fed once. Well, it rained last week. So I guess that was it.

And, here are the "jugs". This classy wardrobe mirror with the sticker on it really says it all about the previous owners. So awesome.

Viola! We have a skylight. Not on purpose really. We took down the cabinets a while back, and now the roof is coming off, and since that section has a broken ceiling, we have a skylight. We actually are going to install Solar Tubes in the ceiling while we have the roof off, which will save on energy and bring in natural light which will really be great in the house.

Here is the roof coming off, in action! We were working in the office and this was going on outside the window. The neighbors LOVE us right now.