Year 5, Day 12, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 5/12/2025. The Wellington – Second bedroom spackling We are going to trap those bees now. Marley’s Graduation. Congratulations Marley. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/3ZqUJpK Stackable Under Sink Organizer with Sliding Basket: Want under your sink toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 12 – The Wellington – Second bedroom spackling, Marley’s graduation”
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Living the Dream Year 5 Day 11 – The Wellington – Mother’s Day planting
Year 5, Day 11, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 5/11/2025. The Wellington – Happy Mothers Day everyone. And a special love filled mother’s day wish to my daughter Jenna, my daughter-in-law Bobi, and Grand daughter Reina. Without my children I would not be a mother today. No fur babies in this house. Woke up to theContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 11 – The Wellington – Mother’s Day planting”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 10 – The Wellington – Mother’s Day Love, Japanese maple, making pizza with Justin and Bobi
Year 5, Day 10, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 5/10/2025. The Wellington – Feeling the love today. The freshest nicest Mother’s Day flowers were delivered today from Jenna and family. They came from Hillside Florist in Stanford. KY https://g.co/kgs/GLve2zJ They are so gorgeous and perfect they actually look fake. I have never seen such lovely flowers.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 10 – The Wellington – Mother’s Day Love, Japanese maple, making pizza with Justin and Bobi”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 9 – The Wellington – Leveled out one dirt mound in front yard, Labadee, Haiti port no longer being stopped at, truck side step added
Year 5, Day 9, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 5/09/2025. The Wellington – Well an apple a day keeps the doctor away. What do you think a muffin a day will do? Nice days are here and it means outside work. Another pile of dirt is moved around and leveled into our yard. Two more pilesContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 9 – The Wellington – Leveled out one dirt mound in front yard, Labadee, Haiti port no longer being stopped at, truck side step added”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 8 – The Wellington – Main bath saddle installed, hardwood flooring completed on main level except for one bedroom, yummy English muffins, sweet chicken salad
Year 5, Day 8, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 5/08/2025. The Wellington – Happy Birthday Mary!!! Main bath saddle installed. Hardwood flooring is completed on main level of home, except for one bedroom. Lunch out at the Serendipity and then flower shopping with a friend. The chicken salad was the sweetest I have ever had. TheContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 8 – The Wellington – Main bath saddle installed, hardwood flooring completed on main level except for one bedroom, yummy English muffins, sweet chicken salad”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 7 – The Wellington – Balcony railing staining continues, Ram christened with first garbage load
Year 5, Day 7, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 5/07/2025. The Wellington – Balcony staining continues. The new truck was christened by taking a load of garbage to the transfer station. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/3ZqUJpK Stackable Under Sink Organizer with Sliding Basket: Want underContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 7 – The Wellington – Balcony railing staining continues, Ram christened with first garbage load”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 6 – The Wellington – Staining the balcony railing
Year 5, Day 6, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 5/06/2025. The Wellington – Spent a little time in between rainy days staining the balcony railing. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/3FlgKiV Wet or dry 400 grit sandpaper sheets: This sandpaper is perfect to use between coatsContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 6 – The Wellington – Staining the balcony railing”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 5 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom hardwood flooring completed, Somerset Newcomers Kentucky Derby hat
Year 5, Day 5, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 5/05/2025. The Wellington – Headed to the Somerset Newcomers meeting with my Kentucky Derby attire. Woohoo I was the derby hat winner. Steve finished putting down the corner bedroom hardwood flooring. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/3FlgKiVContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 5 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom hardwood flooring completed, Somerset Newcomers Kentucky Derby hat”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 4 – The Wellington – Off day, looked at trees, derby hat completed
Year 5, Day 4, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 5/04/2025. The Wellington – Off day today. Unbelievable isn’t it. We just went out for breakfast, looked at trees at Lowes, and then hung out the rest of the day. It was a just another rainy cloudy boring day. Oh I did do some more unpacking andContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 4 – The Wellington – Off day, looked at trees, derby hat completed”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 3 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom hardwood flooring started
Year 5, Day 3, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 5/03/2025. The Wellington – It’s the 151st Kentucky Derby day! The race traditionally takes place the first Saturday in May. The first leg of the Triple Crown 2025, the Kentucky Derby, takes place today. It is held at the Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky. It takesContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 3 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom hardwood flooring started”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 2 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom painted, herbs growing for 12 days
Year 5, Day 2, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 5/02/2025. The Wellington – The corner bedroom is completely painted. The hardwood flooring goes down tomorrow. Today is day twelve and four of the nine herb pots have sprouts. Basil has sprouted and joined Dill, Cilantro and Thyme. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’sContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 2 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom painted, herbs growing for 12 days”
Living the Dream Year 5 Day 1 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom primed and ready for paint
Year 5, Day 1, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 5/01/2025. The Wellington – The corner bedroom is primed. Painting will be started tomorrow. It has been eleven days and three of the nine herb pots have sprouted. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/3FlgKiV Wet or dryContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 1 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom primed and ready for paint”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 365 – The Wellington – Truck sold, looking at trailers
Year 4, Day 365, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 4/30/2025. The Wellington – The 2006 Silverado was sold this morning through marketplace within 30 minutes. I hope she enjoys the new farm in her old age. Literally the truck has been put out to pasture. The man who bought her is going to fix her upContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 365 – The Wellington – Truck sold, looking at trailers”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 364 – The Wellington – Truck towed, sanding and spackling corner bedroom, new Ram truck
Year 4, Day 364, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 4/29/2025. The Wellington – The truck was towed back to our house last night. Steve did some sanding and spackling in the corner bedroom and then went outside to fix the truck. We decided that the underside of the truck is so rusted. It is just toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 364 – The Wellington – Truck towed, sanding and spackling corner bedroom, new Ram truck”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 363 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom taped and first coat of spackle, mulch and truck broke, bee swarm
Year 4, Day 363, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 4/28/2025. The Wellington – So many exciting things happened today. My herbs are starting to grow. I see baby Thyme plants coming up. The corner bedroom is taped and the first coat of spackle has been applied. The rear deck was power washed and is ready toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 363 – The Wellington – Corner bedroom taped and first coat of spackle, mulch and truck broke, bee swarm”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 362 – The Wellington – Interior door and trim painting, trim installation, corner bedroom clean and ready to spackle
Year 4, Day 362, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 4/27/2025. The Wellington – More door painting, trim painting, and trim installation. Cleaned up the bar room floor. Then we cleaned out the corner bedroom. Tomorrow spackling in that room starts. That is the room we slept in all last summer with a window air conditioner. ItContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 362 – The Wellington – Interior door and trim painting, trim installation, corner bedroom clean and ready to spackle”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 361 – The Wellington – Interior door painting and trim installation, Julianna and Jacob school play
Year 4, Day 361, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 4/26/2025. The Wellington – While we painted doors and put up trim. Julianna and Jacob were performing in their school play. Julianna is Dorothy. Jacob has two parts, a munchkin and a flying monkey. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’sContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 361 – The Wellington – Interior door painting and trim installation, Julianna and Jacob school play”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 360 – The Wellington – Set up recliners in bar room, trim painting in garage, wall cabinet for sale
Year 4, Day 360, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 4/25/2025. The Wellington – Cleaned up the garage and moved the recliners into the bar room Setup a place to paint trim in the garage. We have an extra kitchen corner wall cabinet that we are selling on Facebook marketplace. Here’s a link if you are interestedContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 360 – The Wellington – Set up recliners in bar room, trim painting in garage, wall cabinet for sale”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 359 – The Wellington – Main floor linen closet completed, lower bath gold mirror hung
Year 4, Day 359, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 4/24/2025. The Wellington – The large upstairs linen closet is ready. More foraging time and unpacking coming up. We just keep jumping around now. The downstairs bathroom mirror is up. I was unsure if a gold frame would work or not, but I think it looks good.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 359 – The Wellington – Main floor linen closet completed, lower bath gold mirror hung”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 358 – The Wellington – Last inspection, farmer spraying
Year 4, Day 358, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 4/23/2025. The Wellington – We had our last inspection. The water heater and final plumbing passed. Yes, the plumbing inspector said – You do such good work. You better watch out because people are going to want you to do their plumbing. The water heater and electricalContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 358 – The Wellington – Last inspection, farmer spraying”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 357 – The Wellington – Time to order pavers
Year 4, Day 357, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 4/22/2025. The Wellington – Time to order pavers for sidewalks and patio. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/4ktOSbr Storage Bins with Lids: Currently have three on the top of my closet. Need to add labels and IContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 357 – The Wellington – Time to order pavers”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 356 – The Wellington – Linen closet door installed, Deck stain ordered
Year 4, Day 356, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 4/21/2025. The Wellington – One of the linen closets has a door tonight. We ordered the solid deck stain. The Williamsburg deck was never stained. This house we are going gray and white. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s AmazonContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 356 – The Wellington – Linen closet door installed, Deck stain ordered”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 355 – The Wellington – Happy Easter, front flower beds cleaned up, herbs planted
Year 4, Day 355, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 4/20/2025. The Wellington – Happy Easter. A little Easter surprise arrived today! These are better than live pets. Out for Breakfast than back home to clean up the front of the house. Around the house had turned into a weedy mess. The flower beds around the houseContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 355 – The Wellington – Happy Easter, front flower beds cleaned up, herbs planted”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 354 – The Wellington – Lower level bar room sink ready for inspection, Easter Mexican dinner
Year 4, Day 354, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 4/19/2025. The Wellington – Worked on hooking up lower level bar room sink. It is working and ready for final inspection. Had blinds cut to fit lower the level bathroom window at Lowes. It was amazing that they cut the blinds in the box. Never saw thatContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 354 – The Wellington – Lower level bar room sink ready for inspection, Easter Mexican dinner”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 353 – The Wellington – Lower level bathroom ready for inspection, Butcher block counter top sanded, outside afternoon work
Year 4, Day 353, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 4/18/2025. The Wellington – Lower level bathroom is working and ready for inspection. The butcher block counter in the bar room has been lightly sanded with 400 grit sand paper. It has been stained three times. The afternoon was spent cleaning up the mound of dirt andContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 353 – The Wellington – Lower level bathroom ready for inspection, Butcher block counter top sanded, outside afternoon work”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 352 – The Wellington – Yearly Excavator maintenance, Julianna modeling photo shoot
Year 4, Day 352, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 4/17/2025. The Wellington – The excavator yearly maintenance is done and the machine had a nice bath. Julianna did a modeling photo shoot and here’s a sneak peak with one photo. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/4jFiBxOContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 352 – The Wellington – Yearly Excavator maintenance, Julianna modeling photo shoot”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 351 – The Wellington – First mowing of the back field this season
Year 4, Day 351, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 4/162025. The Wellington – Now that the tractor is ready to work for the season. It was a beautiful sunny day to move on to mowing the back field. The grass has filled in so nicely in the field. Hopefully we can get the grass to growContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 351 – The Wellington – First mowing of the back field this season”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 350 – The Wellington – Lower level bathroom shower doors installed
Year 4, Day 350, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 4/15/2025. The Wellington – The Shower doors are installed in the lower level bathroom. Kohler is sending another glass door bumper kit. The sliding doors we bought had two right bumpers and we need a left and a right. Oops, quality control let that slip through. WeContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 350 – The Wellington – Lower level bathroom shower doors installed”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 349 – The Wellington – Lower level bathroom grouted and toilet installed
Year 4, Day 349, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 4/14/2025. The Wellington – Downstairs bathroom is all grouted and the traveling toilet is installed and working. That toilet has been installed in all three bathrooms now. A little bit of a bargain I couldn’t resist – $5.00. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’sContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 349 – The Wellington – Lower level bathroom grouted and toilet installed”
Living the Dream Year 4 Day 348 – The Wellington – Vacation mode to work swap day
Year 4, Day 348, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 4/13/2025. The Wellington – We got home around 12:30am. Need the day to get out of vacation mode. We are so glad to be in our bed. One exciting fact I never knew is that Atlanta airport’s far southern runways 10/28 are unique. They are the onlyContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 348 – The Wellington – Vacation mode to work swap day”