Work Weekend

This last weekend, we had a no kids work weekend at SBR. David brought his friend Matt, and was joined by Leah, Dad, Brian and Me. It was a crazy work a thon for 2 days. The boys started on Friday evening by power washing the house while Leah and I got some of the inside ready to paint. Then a planning session over dinner & drinks.

Saturday morning the boys left early to start cutting trees for fence posts and the new deck. Leah and I got started painting the hallway & kitchen, while Dad did some work in the new room finishing the trim. After a while, Matt got Leah and I started painting the outside of the house with his power sprayer. It was amazingly fast. Though, Leah and I were no where near as fast as Matt at painting, which is probably why he took over after a few hours and finished up the outside paint for us.

Once we realied we were going to run out of paint, Dad ran off to Gonzalez to buy more along with a few more necessary items for our projects. While he was gone, Leah and I finished the hallway, finished painting the kitchen, sealed some grout, painted the closet in the new room and did some other general projects. Those included going through the kitchen & bedrooms to purge.

During the day, the boys smoked meat and jalapenos. I got to try my hand at coring about 50 jalapenos while Leah stuffed and wrapped them for smoking. They were wonderful.

Brian got there for lunch, and went to work with the boys cutting and hauling trees. It was cool watching Dad get the tractor out with the auger to dig the holes for the stumps. They got them all lined up, placed, and started digging. At the 6th hole something went wrong. Really not good. At first they were sure if the auger or the tractor broke, but eventually decided it was the auger. That put a stop to the holes for the new fence.

That's ok, we still had so many other projects to work on - like regrouting some of the new room and setting up a sprinkler system for the yard.

We've decided it's going to take many more work weekends to get things where we want them and a new deck and fence built. But it was exciting to see so many changes happening at one time. Below are a few pictures of our progress.

Hallway with a fresh coat of white paint and

missing a bookcase and coat rack.

We moved the coat rack into the bathroom to hang towels, replacing a

previous rack. This one goes nicely with our Texas Flag theme.

We cleaned out a few things from the bunk room.

Hung denim curtains and cleaned off this coat/hat rack.

The new room now only needs the grout sealed

and to be cleaned up before we move furniture in. Oops, forgot to include

the necessary new electrical wiring and air conditioning.

Our favorite new thing - The CLOSET!

There are no other closets in the house.

And this one is HUGE!

One end has hanging clothes

And the other end has hanging clothes

with plenty of room for the shelves of linens, baskets of

hats & gloves, the heaters and random boots

The repainted and reorganized shelves in the kitchen
Yes, we "reorganized" the liquor. You wouldn't believe what we found

up there. Stuff that Dad tells us is older than David!

The hallway bookcase is now in Mom & Dad's room

where the shelves of linens were before the move.

The outside of house before we started painting.

Notice the lovely 2 tone color. Actually, the

house was 3 different colors all the way around.

Now, its a "lovely" gray color. No one is sure who picked out the gray,

but none of us are volunteering to repaint it! I'm sure once we have the

trim & front door painted it will all look less boring.

We started painting the trim dark gray on the rafters, but didn't get very far.

That is on the list for the next work weekend.

Here is the row of fence posts that got in the ground.

We call it Yard Art.

Want us to call you for the next Work Weekend? It's lots of fun!