FIVE MONTHS LATER

Okay so I have no idea what happened, but 5 months have sped by since we last posted a blog entry - to the day.  Oh wait, maybe I do know!  I turned our carport into a garage after 54 years (well only 20 of that have I had any control).  The garage has a very cool looking door (thanks to Jeff for coming down from Moscow to hang it after getting us a good deal on its purchase) and is completely finished inside.  The garage had to be finished in order to have our house painted for only the second time since we moved in.  Everyone really likes the color Karen picked it goes really well with our gardens, but it would probably not translate in a subdivision.

And right before the garage door, I put in a sliding doorbetween our kitchen and the laundry room.  Karen has a love-hate relationship with my projects.  If I may, it turned out very nice and provides for a cozy kitchen and a barrier to laundry noises.   Oh, and that reminds me, in the middle of the garage project, Karen comes out one Saturday and tells me the dryer is not working; it was shot and so we bought a replacement set.  Well, there is more to that story too.  Our washer has always emptied into in our laundry tub and I have had a in-the-wall box for some time and I decided that if I was going to have new equipment is was going to be right, so I tore into the wall and plumbed in the box and then had to rebuild the wall.  When it is written in on sentence you really can't get the scope of the work involved, but let's just say it put the garage project back some.

Oh and lest I forget, we had a garden party here for the Relief Society in May and Karen worked very hard to ready for that while she let me stay on projects (I did get some unnecessary flak for the timing).

We also had a visit from Dad and Lynda that came just in time for the finale of the garage (well at least the exterior).  We toured a bit, went to Saturday Market, the coast, played some games, and generally had a great time.

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Then we went on a trip to Moscow to visit and see Cody graduate.  Grandma Mickey had come up so it was a mini reunion. We got to watch porn with Grandma Mickey (you will have to inquire for details!)

The next thing to hit the list was preparing for a visit from Megan, Spunky, and Zippy.  In order to have both little ones in the baseball and exercise room, we needed to get the exercise equipment into the proposed gym which had formerly been our "shop" room off the the laundry room headed to the new garage.  So we organized and moved stuff to the attic (the garage has pull-down stairs to the attic now too) and the workshop.  We put down a rubber floor that looks great compared to the old concrete and Kenny moved all the exercise equipment one day by himself!  Viola!

So now it was back to the baseball room which got a new rug and bed and is now a guest bedroom with a heavy baseball theme!

Then came the week of July 4th and a visit from Megan, Spunky, and Zippy!  Oh but before they get here we had to buy a bouncy house - how can you have kids over and not have a bouncy house?

We went to the lavender festival

We went to the coast

We dressed up for the 4th

And then off to the rodeo!

We went to NW Portland for Pizza and Purse shopping

And the Zoo

And we had so much other fun we are ashamed!

After we said goodbye we spent July just goofing off, gardening, and going to baseball games....so that is what happens in 5 months when you are not paying attention to your blog!