Hungry?

 

Take a look at this relish tray Sandra made for the Super Bowl party tomorrow night! I'm getting hungry!

Making a room

 

 

Well, we are working on putting up sheetrock. I was trying to figure out how to work the sheetrock lift. Then you can see that Sandra and I figured it out. This is the garage and we are putting up 5/8" Fire Retarder Type X on the ceiling and the wall between the garage and the living space. I have almost finished hanging the sheetrock upstairs and this is the garage. There is also a bedroom and bathroom on the other side of the wall on the garage level.

Grinder Pump

 

 

 

This is a continuation of the progress we are making on the conversion of the garage into a house. We do not have a septic system. It is a grinder pump which pumps sewage into the sewer pipe in the street. This is the hole where the tank (which houses the pump - the house drains empty into this tank) is placed. When the tank gets filled to a certain point, the pump turns on and empties the contents. The "smoke" is concrete dust. the tank has to be secured with cement!

Main Plumbing Drain

 

 

Yesterday, the plumber dug the ditch for our main drain out of the conversion house. It is about 3 feet away from the house.

More Flooding

 

 

 

The land across our creek is also flooding. One of the new culverts is not big enough and the water is running around it and over the flat land and down into our end of the creek.

Full Creek

 

 

 

We have been having a lot of rain and the creek behind our house is very full. Most of the year the creek has been dry but it sure is filled up now!