I bet you think our house is about 6000 square feet!

Greetings and Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers

Well we are still in the home stretch on finishing the house. I took this Friday and Monday as a vacation day with the hopes of completing the project but it does not look like that is going to happen. For everyone out there who does not realize it new construction is much much easier than a remodel. I mean at certain points it can take you 2 hours to get a room trimmed out, especially if the room was built in 1962 and is about as square as an igloo. Speaking of 1962 the wood from back then sucks! It took me almost 4 hours on Friday to change out my front door and it was only the slab! Once I figured out that the door jam was a well aged, brittle, and somewhat rotten the process went a lot easier. I had to use 2 1/2 inch screws to go through the hinges far enough to find good wood! The door jams will have to be redone but that is a project for another year with the screen door it will do for now, we enter and exit the house via the garage anyway. However all that being said I still have a target date of the end of the month set for completion of the remodel. Hence the title as long as we have been working on the house I bet you think its ginourmous (look it up Webster made it a word this year).

Also this month Jess had some family in from Washington State so we visited with them a little, and unfortunately Jess’s step father’s mother passed away as well. So between the house, family, work, & church we have been swamped. August is looking to be pretty full as well I will be in Colorado, at the beach (beach still to be determined), and Indianapolis all for a week at a time. But hey that’s the fast pace life known as Stapleton.

On July 24th Jess and I will be celebrating our 8th Wedding Anniversary (10 years together), then our birthdays shortly there after. So after 2 houses, 1 rental, the cars going to Graley’s Auto Body 12 times, 2 BA degrees, 4 computers, 2 beds, 3 TV’s, 6 DVD players, 10 jobs, 5 cars, 2 surgery, taking in Petey & Phoebe, and finding a church home were still together so it must be love.

It’s getting late and I am planning a full day of trim tomorrow so I will just leave you with the immortal words of Socrates “I Drank What?”.

Have a good week!