House update: Friday

[electricland]

My aunt reports:

Today for lunch, John, Dan, David and I had tacos, with garnish of sour cream, salsa, cheese and grated lettuce. And blue tostitos.

David, Dan and William finished drywall on the first floor ceiling.* Still needs taping and mudding. The second floor is starting.

John went to Rona, and bought screws, drywall, sonapan and an angle (a sort of thing you put in corners, I think).

Jen has acquired for Robin from the public library system and nice book on drywalling,** and an accompanying DVD. (I wonder how it ends?)

Cheers, Helen

*Now that is EXCITING.
**I read part of it on Wednesday and was pleased to note that I had already learned much of what was in the first 3 chapters. Although it did have clever advice about using a chalk line to mark off long, awkward lines.

Also, punmeister has posted his photos from 2 weeks ago, and they are utterly gorgeous. I don't know how he found all those wonderful textures and things. I assure you the place doesn't look that nice in real life. (Although it will!) For those of you wondering, I'm the one in glasses and a red bandana.

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[raithen.livejournal.com]

I'm the one in glasses and a red bandana.
*I* knew that ;) I thought you looked terribly cute, too. And meant to email that to you. I also like the flannel shirt. and are those The Jeans? My style will yet conquer the world!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I'm a little fat for The Jeans at the moment. *sigh* Those are The Cargo Pants of Doooom. They are covered in black goo(TM) and plaster dust. But so sincere. I bought the flannel shirt years ago, used, at the height of the grunge era, for about $3. It is also very sincere. The bandana was a birthday present.

And thank you!

[texaslawchick.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so glad to finally see pictures of this house I've been reading about so much...

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I hope they give you some idea of what it's going to look like! (They're mostly from the first floor. Second and third will have to wait.)

(Icon love, btw.)

[claris.livejournal.com]

Well the house looks like it's coming along, but some of the photos themselves were really lovely.

And somehow, I knew the bandana was you, & the curly hair is your partner in crime, isn't it?

Who has the red hair, and which one has spikes on his forehead? *g*

also? At this point, i think we need a portrait of Helen!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Close! Partner in crime is the green T-shirt. Curly hair is Karyn, down to help out for a few days only. Red hair is Dan. Spikes is Cousin Mike, brother of Jen. Small dog is Tilde.

You're right, we do need a portrait of Helen!

[nellisir.livejournal.com]

Wow. Cool. :)

[punmeister.livejournal.com]

The second set of house photos is up now. First, second, AND third floor are represented this time. :)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Belated wheeeee! thank you!

[punmeister.livejournal.com]

Oh! I forgot to mention that I found the CD of the early-stage-house images that Brian left with me. So, I'll get those online as well, and at some point I'll get a CD to you so that you'll have a complete collection of the house photos.

You wouldn't happen to have a copy of the house layout/dimensions in digital form would you? I have a plan percolating in my brain right now that could use that info.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Coool!

Blueprints exist. (I say this because *I* don't seem to have a copy, they were probably a victim of enthusiastic work-email-purging.) I will enquire of the hivemind.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Aha, Uncle John had them! Emailing you from work now!