Handy Mannys

David has been working hard on projects at the house. We were hoping that we wouldn't have to do anything major anywhere, but the projects just never end. The joys of owning a home I suppose. Many of you know that we've cut down trees, repaired some plumbing, added a storage room in the garage, have been insulating the garage, and ended up having to redo the surround in the bathroom shower. I say we, but David gets most of the credit along with the loving support (and talent, time and efforts) of Grandpa Ron, Grandma Karen, Grandpa Van, Grandma Marie and numerous other veiled angels. I'm sure this won't be the end of projects as this house has mostly original everything from 1977. It would all be a lot easier to open up moving boxes and get more settled if we weren't fixing up as we go, but a fixin' we will go.

Here are some pictures of SuperMan Dave working on the bathroom fix up job. It's not quite done as we've all taken more than a week off to be sick, but it sure is fun to see it coming along.

The ringing bells of tile being chipped off the wall. Thank goodness for earplugs! We found that after 33 years the tiles had pulled away from the sheetrock behind them. Time for something new.

Grandma & Grandpa got in on some of the clean up and put up of the new surround.

Macey "helping" the handy daddy put new tile around the edge of the new shower/tub surround.

David painted the lovely gold insides of the very dated medicine cabinet. It turned out so great!

David sure has gotten a lot of use out of the little air compressor he got from Santa a few years back. Here he is building a new frame for the medicine cabinet mirror.

Mirror frame in the works.

Handy man Dave sure does love to paint, just like he loves having a headache! I am very grateful that he'll do it and make things look oh so much better!

Joshua wanted in on the action. He has been pretending to paint everything in sight since we moved here! Too bad we don't all have his energy. This house would be in tip top shape in no time at all!