Skylight up again.

Folks, this is Sterling Peterson up putting the skylight that has waited all winter long to be put up. Remember when I wrote of the devil wind that came the night before Halloween and sucked up the skylight because it was not fastened down good? well all winter long we had a good plywood with heavy black plastic over it and now the Yurt roof has her light in the middle again. Thank you Sterling for doing this....ahhhhhhhhhhh, the see the clouds roll by in the day, to hear the rain ...........and sometimes see the stars.............I love this roof as well....

You will see many pictures below and some older ones as well. We have progressed sooooooo much and soooo love living in this house. thank you for visiting. You will know you've "caught up" with all that I've done today when you come to the picture of the little red Cardinal that I took pictures of when we lived on 1730 Mulholland.

finishing with barn wood/sanding cherry wood floors.

Here is Sterling Peterson putting on the little pieces of barn wood that has been beveled and artistically put into place. He has this compresser and a small nail gun and bamb bamb and bamb...I love this "art work". If our Kamaka friend saw this done in Hawaii, he's say the same thing about it as he did for all our "white painting" of the junk woods we put up our "temporary house" we built in Hawaii, "white paint covers a multitude of sins"...well so does barn wood and it looks sooooooooooooo great. Thank you Sterling.
How cool is this? wayyyyyyyy cool to me. using the barn wood for the openings to the bedrooms and other rooms. yep, been power washed and this is great sturdy wood. soooooooo rustic.
more of the same. I'm going to take more pictures, but this is a beginning of catching up on the pictures that I've had in my camera. It will take you a while to go though all of the pictures I've posted today, but I'm so glad that I've had time to do this Sunday.
We sooooooooooooo love our Napoleon Fire place. This is major heat we've had in this house while building all winter long. Oh yeah, we've had some area heaters to as to not freeze the paints and other things....but my darling little Frankie Ficus tree died that Vicki brought from Las Vegas...........She has since got me another one and we've planted her and she's doing great....her name will be Frances. I'll take her picture laters.
This picture is blurry because it was FLYING DUST TO THE MAX....and here is Vicki on the cherry wood floors sanding 'em down. We could find no sander that could sand these.....they were just tooooooooooo uneven....wayyyyyyyyy hard. Darren was on one sander and Vicki on this big monster hand sander. Yep, it's mine, but I've given it to Dave. The whole house was filled with Cherry wood dust. I'm sooooooooo glad we got the oak flooring for the big round part of the house.

bringing in the BIG LOG

Here is the log that is named by Dave, "The man from Snowy River". The day they brought him in it was snowing outside, and the river was frozen and Daren had named the other lovely log, "Jessica". Dave had me cut a foundation for this log on my scroll saw, hard to see here and I wish I'd thought of someone taking my picture.
Here Dave is chiseling away and making this work....it's all in his head how he is going to do it, but to the rest of us, a mystery. Then it's done and zowie, "how cool is that?" we all say.
Dave had cut open some of the floor under this log before they set it in and put some big 2X6's in and had it sitting on the rock below...........so the post will never sink. this is good.
We are all glad that this post is FINALLY in...as it's sat on the porch for all last summer (I sanded this guy) and all winter.
Cute Tomasi, has just finished putting up our mail box and our planter cart that I had him bring from our other house. nope, not moved in yet here, but getting closer. not many folks put their mail box ON A TREE...I just figured that I didn't have to have a post to dig...and these trees don't grow very fast. ha.

for your info. our snail mail address is.

2639 N. Sycamore Haven Dr.
Nauvoo, Illinois
62354

my roomie from Provo 1962-1963

Here is Carolyn and Flake Boone. They are serving a mission in Misouri and came to Nauvoo for a day to see us. I was just thrilled to see them. When I first met Carolyn, she had broken up with some guy and was moping around. When we went to a Stake conference, I had Carolyn with me and saw Flake leaning up against a wall to the entry. I said, "Now Carolyn, here is a wonderful TALL guy that you'll have some fun with"..........and was the matchmaker here. He has built a dome in Hawaii, and many other houses...their last house is in Snowflake, Arizona.....out of logs that he has cut and peeled himself. Someday after their mission, we'll go down and see their place.

Tony Winchester

Here is a close by neighbor that FINALLY got around to hooking up my hot water heater. I am so very grateful. He works full time in Keokuk, Iowa. I'm still waiting for him to hook up the gas stove. yep, we have all the parts, and yep, it's all outfitted for the Liquid Propane tank. He also "someday" hook up our gas furnace ............ahhhhhhhh, the JOYS OF HOT WATER. I am now very spoiled with lovely hot baths and Tomasi in the shower. I'll write more on those laters.

more stuffs getting done....

Here is Darren using the sander that I rented for the oak flooring. He ordered and I got some paist something that covered a bunch of the gapes.....and then this sander sanded stuffs smooth.
Here is Sue Stanton that is vacuming this part of my kitchen as we were getting ready to move in and we were FAR FROM READY, but no longer could we pay rent AND mortgage. So when we moved in, we had one sink with running water and one toilet.
Here's Dave using the last of the big logs for the railing. This is ONE BIG DRILL PRESS. I just had to have this record of Dave doing this. way hard.....not loud, just steady. It's a heavy beast and all of us were glad when Dave was done with this part of making the railings...then we could move this beast out and sand floors. whew.
you can see Dave smiling...........he loves this work. Again, good Darren helping to hold that big old log.........these are Aspen logs from Parley's Canyon, Utah. There were in a fire around a cabin that was Dave's Uncle's cabin. I sanded 60% of these logs.
This is the Licensed Illinois Plumber that came to put this all together. oh yeah.....I still owe his company......still waiting for the "tax return stimulus" that was supposed to come months ago. sigh.

Moing the log bed in my bedroom.

Here is Paul Staples (our former landlord) and Sue's husband, Brad Stanton. This was ONE HEAVEY BED. In the back of this bed are the box springs. it made the bed WAY TOO HIGH. So Dave had me get 2 X 6's and he made a sturdy place on the bed frame for us to put the biggest, pillowest bed I've even been on. yeah, I got this bed from some used furniture store. A very comphy bed.
This is how the hauled it in.

YEAH GUYS, THANKS LOADS. This bed was made by Dave Hardle's son, Lance. He had made it for another person, but that didn't work out and I bought it several years ago. It's a beautiful bed.........but huge. Vicki had to widen out the wall to set it back into it. See the darling little lamps for when Tomasi will read to me? She said that if she didn't do that, I'd have a "bed", but no room for anything else. yeah, such insite from Vicki.