Category Archives: Kentucky

Gorgeous day today. Went for a walk in the beautiful countryside. Lots of plumbing and framing done today. Steve worked on plumbing and Justin worked on framing. Our transfer switch arrived so we can hook up to a generator in power outages. Halloween is coming. ARRRR yee mateys Today’s product recommendations are for keeping awareContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 161”

Woke up this morning and went to leave the cabin and one of the corn kids decided they did not want me to get out the door. They are scary little kids. Today was a gorgeous sunny day. Very humid though. It is really storming again this evening. At least I got my shower beforeContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 160”

Exciting day. The plumbing has been started. Dreaming of the wonderful indoor showers that are so close now. Headed back to Lowes this evening for more plumbing stuff and lumber of course. Bad storms in the area this evening. Our Granddaughter’s soccer team is hunkered down in the High School boys locker room due toContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 159”

Another glorious morning here at the compound. Although, The flies are back and I think they think I am dead. Oh boy, this is very concerning. They keep walking on me. Steve is working on framing the refrigerator, and Double wall oven and microwave area out. This will be the only time I will getContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 158”

Mosquitoes are horrendous now. Even totally covered up they find a place to bite you. My ankles are a mess of bites. Need to buy higher socks. The no show socks show the mosquitoes just where to bite. Well, there are no sweat bees at least. We are not sweating now. We are wearing sweatshirts.Continue reading “Living the Dream Day 157”

Rainy cool day. We did our normal Sunday chores and then spent the afternoon finalizing and remeasuring the kitchen layout. By the end of the day the kitchen cabinets were ordered. The master bathroom vanity layout was also finalized and ordered. Pretty soon we will be storing dishes and food in cabinets. The new kitchenContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 156”

Finished the aluminum work outside. Ordering the lumber for rear deck Monday. We are planning on it being 12×16. Also, calling to get a seamless gutter contractor in. That will be the second sub contractor on the job site. Still waiting on the special order shutters. Today’s product recommendations are for keeping aware of yourContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 155”

There were some beautiful skies today. You really notice them when you are constantly looking up at your husband working. Is he ok? Ok, let me check again, is he ok? It is so much better to look up and see the beautiful art work. Because when you look down you see gross bugs andContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 154”

So we now have four coffee pots. Two in storage and two here. Do you think I love coffee? Talking about storage. Never ever put your stuff in a storage unit while you decide where you are going to live. It is better to get rid of it. Sell it or give it away. WeContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 153”

Nice warm sunny day today. Got our flu shots and carted lots of garbage to the dump. Justin had to attend a closing today for a new four plex apartment building he purchased. So no high siding work could be done. Steve really needs assistance with the super high work. HVAC contractor came back andContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 152”

It is hot and sunny here again. The HVAC contractor was a no show today. No text or call either. Justin and Steve worked on the front siding. It is almost water tight. All that is left to side is the peaks on the front and the back where they can’t reach with the ladders.Continue reading “Living the Dream Day 151”

It is dark, and cold here in the mornings. Beautiful for my morning walks though. The work goes on, the work goes on. Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain. La de da de de, la de da de da. The house is moving along, but harder to focus. We need a vacation. But,Continue reading “Living the Dream Day 150”

Gorgeous cooler morning with lots of fog. After our normal Sunday morning out, we decided we would go through the upstairs and make final decisions on the electrical. All the boxes are now up for the switches, plugs, and recessed lighting. We are putting in 18 recessed ceiling lights upstairs. The only other lighting upstairsContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 149”

Everyday we get a little closer. We are thinking about canceling our October/November cruises so we can celebrate Christmas in the new house. Heading to Lowes to get another 50 2×4’s tonight. We need another 100 to finish the downstairs. And on another note. Happy daughters day to Jenna and Bobi. Today’s product recommendations areContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 148”

Friday, 9/24/2021 – I was very cold this morning, at tam it was 43. It warmed up fairly nicely to light sweatshirt weather. All the stairs are now built, and pieces of cardboard temporarily placed on them to walk on. The front door has some cement blocks stacked up to walk in it. It isContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 147”

Day 146 – Thursday, 9/23/2021. Last night it went down to 48 here. We used the heater in the cabin. To keep the temperature in the 60’s. We also had to use our portable heater for a short while in the old house. Humidity is very high in Kentucky. It was cooler today but sunny.Continue reading “Living the Dream Day 146”

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 – Went to Lowes after dinner last night. Bought a Bosch portable table saw, recessed lighting housings, oak stair treads, and wood to build the stringers and risers. We got home late. It was after dark, and we had to unload the truck due to coming rain. We bought the oakContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 145”

It has been wet and cooler lately. We are muddy and wet all the time. Last night we showered in the rain. Fun, fun times. So, we have been placing our garbage bag in the old house at night to keep it away from the animals. Mainly the farm cats. This morning the bag inContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 144”

Wet rainy day today. Worked on finishing the upstairs inside framing. Getting everything set up inside for rough in plumbing. HVAC contractor is coming next week. We are expecting it to be rainy for the next few days. The outside work will resume towards the end of the week. Went to Lowes for more wood.Continue reading “Living the Dream Day 143”

Today was a down day. Got up early and the cats were in the garbage bag. There are three of them that keep hanging around. We forgot to put the garbage bag in the old house last night. When left out they climb inside it and look for food. Got to Lowes at 8:55 amContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 142”

Steve didn’t like the way the basement windows had aluminum on the top. So today he redid the siding on the top of the windows using his handy little siding tool. They now match the rest of the windows. Then he finished hanging the shutters on both sides of the house. I had some carContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 141”

Today was a down day. Justin took a long weekend off. In the morning we went out and spent thousands of dollars on more materials (siding and electrical). We are having difficulty in finding an electrical meter base. Why you ask, of course COVID. In the afternoon Steve cleaned up around the house while IContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 140”

The bugs here drive me insane. The grass is literally moving with bugs. Time to put down pesticide. It is hard to put down pesticide when we are literally living outside most of the time. We will have to figure it out though. Some more siding was applied today. We under ordered so we haveContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 139”

We are not sure what kind of animal has been digging round holes by our house. Very strange, could it be the cats. We may have to move our cameras around to see what is out there at night. Today was cooler with rain in the afternoon. They finished the siding and aluminum fascia coveringContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 138”

Today was a very hot day. We had an appointment at DMV to get our KY real ID issued at 8am. It was packed and they have a horrible computer system that kept going down. Their systems don’t talk very well to each other. One was written in 1975 and one is new. They hadContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 137”

Today was a great day here at the compound. More siding and shutters are up. Steve loves clamps and uses them for everything. They are using a clamp and string to move the siding pieces up. This way one person is up on the ladder measuring and one is cutting and sending up the cutContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 136”

We are getting lazy. Steve really needed a down day. No work was done on the house at all. We just did the normal everyday chores like mowing the lawn and laundry. Bought a pumpkin named Wilson for the children of the corn people. We did book another fourteen-day MSC cruise for June 2022. MaybeContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 135”

Short workday today. More siding went up on the shed dormer side. High work is slow going. Now that the home is closed in it is easy to navigate to get to the different floors. I went through the nineteen window screens and seven of them have some kind of rip. Lowes needs the numberContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 134”

It was a really exciting day. The front door is in and the landing when you walk in is framed. While that work was being done, I went and had a fun date with my Granddaughter. This evening it is a cool 80 degrees and we have sweatshirts on. Well it is cool. Tomorrow isContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 133”

We hooked up a camera last night to try and figure out what was going in our garbage bag. So funny the alarm kept going off. We had three different cats and two different skunks. It was a busy back porch and we didn’t sleep well with the notifications. Today was spent working on theContinue reading “Living the Dream Day 132”