Finally Painting.....

My last blog post was about 2 months ago. Much has transpired since then including finishing our 1st year of homeschooling, Midland graduation, FFA state convention, our last rodeo until September, Jr week of camp, several weddings and funerals, VBS, Fourth of July celebration, Jr High week of camp, etc. There have been a few days since May 23 that we have been able to work on the house. We have however been able to accomplish much in the few days we have worked.

May 25 - Jeff came to help today and he and Sara were able to close in an old doorway on both sides and on one side of another doorway. Allie sanded then began painting the front wall of the house. Wyatt burned a wood pile, scraped paint off of boards that Jeff and Sara put up and helped Allie in painting the front wall of house. David, Slade and I did electrical work, demolition to a door from the pantry to the bathroom and the ceiling in the master bath. We also cut out a hole in the wooden counter top for the sink. We also put up bead board in pantry and in the mud room.
May 27 - David filled in the old door space between the pantry and the bathroom, finished the last bead board in the pantry, and put the last two bead boards in the mud room.
June 29 - Bryant helped us work on Wyatt's room putting in flooring, stairs to his raised bed, and storage area above the AC unit. The girls sanded their rooms.
June 1 - We built a frame for the kitchen island, stubbed out electrical and gas pipe, installed cypress exterior for the island, a plywood top and then the stainless steel top.
July 6 - Bryant helped David build a partial wall in upstairs stairs bathroom, put in insulation and plywood on outer wall in front part of upstairs bathroom, finish plywood on ceiling of upstairs storage closet and most of the wall, fill in last part of loft wall and ceiling. Sara and I put in lat boards for the dining room and kitchen ceiling. We worked together to put up almost half of the bead boards on the kitchen/dining room ceiling.
July 12 - Picked up the kids from CYE, cooked supper at the land and had help putting in three sheets of bead board in the kitchen/dining room.
July 13 - Kelle and Angela came and Allie and Wyatt helped them paint two coats on the front wall/porch of house, as high as they could reach on both sides and almost all of the back wall/porch. Sara helped them paint then helped me caulk and putty in the guest bathroom and mud room and I applied kiltz to 3/4 of the mudroom wall then sanded the bead board wall in the mud room. Sara and I also replaced missing boards around the dining room window. Bryant helped David put in walls and floor in back part of upstairs bathroom and finished installing bead board ceiling in the kitchen/dining room.