Category Archives: Kentucky

Year 4, Day 336, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 4/01/2025. The Wellington – It appears as though the mice are back. They are bringing insulation from the outside wall into the interior wall between the bar room and the bathroom. For the last few days, we have had traps baited with peanut butter surrounding that wallContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 336 – The Wellington – Mice are back, Current and past construction videos”

Year 4, Day 335, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 3/31/2025. The Wellington – Batman finished the downstairs bathroom tile today. Now it just needs to be grouted and the shower doors hung. That statement was a little simplified. The vanity, toilet, closet door, closet shelving, mirror, and trim have to be installed also. Lots of workContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 335 – The Wellington – Downstairs bathroom tile ready to be grouted”

Year 4, Day 334, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 3/30/2025. The Wellington -It is a slow relaxing day here. Cleaning up cardboard, and sweeping up spackle dust. Making calzones Oh okay, not that relaxing. The downstairs bathroom door was installed. It has to be down before installing the doorway saddle. A lot of wood shims areContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 334 – The Wellington – Downstairs bathroom door and saddle installed”

Year 4, Day 333, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 3/29/2025. The Wellington – The shower tiling is complete. Need to grout it still. We are going with Charcoal color. The window sill is tiled so plants can sit in that window. The tile protects the sill from dripping plant water. Tilling that window sill must haveContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 333 – The Wellington – Downstairs shower tiling complete, repotting plants”

Year 4, Day 332, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 3/28/2025. The Wellington – We are back to work. We decided the downstairs bathroom needs to be finished. This way, we can call for the final plumbing inspection. Steve started tiling the shower. I think I like this darker shower tile better than the other two bathrooms.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 332 – The Wellington – Downstairs shower tiling”

Year 4, Day 331, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 3/27/2025. The Wellington – Well sometimes things just get turned around. We spent the night in West Virginia last night and are headed back home today. Now we are really going the wrong way. Sickness has struck in our daughter’s house. We had thought it was allContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 331 – The Wellington – Disappointing day driving home from West Virginia”

Year 4, Day 330, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 3/26/2025. The Wellington – On the road again. It is a beautiful sunny day heading northeast to Pennsylvania. I feel like we are going the wrong way. The trees are blooming more in West Virginia. However, by 2pm it is much colder than at our Kentucky house.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 330 – The Wellington – On the road again traveling to Pennsylvania”

Year 4, Day 329, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 3/25/2025. The Wellington – Now that the house is getting cleaned up, I felt the need to get myself cleaned up. MANI PEDI time. The foyer chandelier was hung. This is the last time we need to use that scaffolding in this house. Please ban it toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 329 – The Wellington – Both Chandeliers are up, Mani-pedi day”

Year 4, Day 328, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 3/24/2025. The Wellington – Cleaning, unpacking, and organizing. The Rev-a-Shelf is installed and the kitchen cabinets are getting organized. Now that the dust has settled we added the shades to the sconces. I really like these sconces they give the house a nice modern feel. Things toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 328 – The Wellington – Rev-a-Shelf installed, sconce shades put up”

Year 4, Day 327, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 3/23/2025. The Wellington – It’s an off day for Batman and Wonder Woman. We headed in the Equinox Batmobile to Mckinney, Kentucky which is about a 45 minute drive through Amish country. It was pretty funny the looks we got driving down the street. We did getContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 327 – The Wellington – Batman and Wonder woman attend Spencer’s five year old birthday party”

Year 4, Day 326, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 3/22/2025. The Wellington – The hardwood flooring is now complete in the main hall three closets. Thinking of vacationing, but need to have a total overhaul beauty treatment. Time to fix up me and not the house. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s aContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 326 – The Wellington – Main Hall closets hardwood flooring completed, sprucing up for vacation”

Year 4, Day 325, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 3/21/2025. The Wellington – As the bang bang, bang hardwood flooring continues in our house. Life continues around us. The woodpecker does his daily pecking at the deck railing. I think he is in a competition with the nail gun. Jacob receives an award from Montgomery CountyContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 325 – The Wellington – Hardwood flooring continues, Jacob county science fair award, Happy Birthday Spencer from Batman and Wonder Woman”

Year 4, Day 324, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 3/20/2025. The Wellington -Today is another bang bang, bang hardwood flooring day. It is like listening to a gun firing all day. The kitchen hardwood floor is done except for the pantry. I gained 3/4 of an inch. This short woman can now get in the microwave.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 324 – The Wellington – Kitchen Hardwood Floor completed, grew 3/4 inch”

Year 4, Day 323, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 3/19/2025. The Wellington – Today is an off day. We headed to Lexington, KY to an Endodontist. Well Steve had the appointment for a root canal. Of course I had to go for moral support. The really funny part is he kept texting me from the officeContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 323 – The Wellington – Lexington Endodontist root canal”

Year 4, Day 322, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 3/18/2025. The Wellington – Another long hard day of laying the Hardwood flooring. Bang, bang, bang all day long. Except today I am trying to cook around the hardwood flooring work. I made cheesecake, Arancini, and Meatballs with Raviolli for Bobi’s birthday. Happy Birthday Bobi. This wasContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 322 – The Wellington – Day 2 hardwood flooring and celebrating Bobi’s birthday”

Year 4, Day 321, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 3/17/2025. The Wellington – Happy St Patrick’s Day! A long hard day of laying the Hardwood flooring in the main living area. Bang, bang, bang all day long. Look at the size of these chairs. I don’t think I have ever seen chairs this large. Things toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 321 – The Wellington – It’s a bang bang bang hardwood flooring day”

Year 4, Day 320, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 3/16/2025. The Wellington – The scaffolding is all folded up and placed in the coat closet. Isn’t that what you would expect in our coat closet? Actually, we need it one more time to hang the foyer chandelier. Then it gets banned to the garage. Last nightContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 320 – The Wellington – Scaffolding in closet, Julianna competition first solo, flooding over the bridge into town, ordered railings”

Year 4, Day 319, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 3/15/2025. The Wellington – The painting is completed for now. A TV is mounted on the wall and all the electrical plates are back up. Julianna is headed to do her dance solo tonight in a Competition in Pennsylvania. It is so awesome that we can watchContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 319 – The Wellington – Painting completed in living area, TV hung, and electrical plates back up, Julianna headed to competition”

Year 4, Day 318, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 3/14/2025. The Wellington – Everything we spackled is now painted. Still some trimming around the ceiling needs to be completed. We spent hours trying to hang a fan in the living area. We had so much trouble trying to mount it to the slope ceiling. As aContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 318 – The Wellington – Living area chandelier hung”

Year 4, Day 317, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 3/13/2025. The Wellington – Interior painting continues. We painted the stairwell wall up through the balcony Irish Cream like the bar room. Debating if we should paint the walls up to the foyer the same color as the bar room. Things to ponder today! Have to leave youContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 317 – The Wellington – Stairway and balcony painted to match bar room”

Year 4, Day 316, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 3/12/2025. The Wellington – One coat of Sherwin Williams Creamy color is on the walls. We are discussing how to connect the Irish Cream color to the main living area. We used the Irish Cream color in the bar room. Things to ponder today! Have to leave youContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 316 – The Wellington – Main living area has one coat of Creamy paint applied”

Year 4, Day 315, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 3/11/2025. The Wellington – Ceilings are completed with one coat of primer and two coats of extra white paint. Tomorrow starts the wall painting. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/4j1uXjs Louisville Ladder 4-Foot Fiberglass Step Ladder, 300-PoundContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 315 – The Wellington – Main living area ceiling painting completed”

Year 4, Day 314, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 3/10/2025. The Wellington -The main Living area is fully primed. Tomorrow will be ceiling and closet painting day. All the ceilings and the total inside of all the closets will be painted extra white. Smaller homes may be our future. They are easier and faster to build.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 314 – The Wellington – Main living area primed and ready for paint”

Year 4, Day 313, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 3/09/2025. The Wellington – Priming Day. The main area of this home is larger than you think. We used three and a half gallons of primer today and are a little over halfway done. How many states have you visited? Everything blossoms with a little warm sunContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 313 – The Wellington – Priming the main living area”

Year 4, Day 312, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 3/08/2025. The Wellington – Happy Women’s Day. The slogan for 2025 Woman’s day is “Empower, Inspire, and Elevate”. On this day remember how incredible you are. Today is day twelve of sanding, spackling, and mask wearing. This is the final sanding on the third coat of spackle.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 312 – The Wellington – Day twelve, spackling, and mask wearing, final sanding on third coat of spackle”

Year 4, Day 311, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 3/07/2025. The Wellington -Day eleven of sanding, spackling, and mask wearing. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/4j1uXjs Louisville Ladder 4-Foot Fiberglass Step Ladder, 300-Pound Load Capacity: This is a great little ladder. I can easily move itContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 311 – The Wellington – Day eleven sanding, spackling, and mask wearing”

Year 4, Day 310, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 3/06/2025. The Wellington – Second day of no power. Yesterday there were 4,000 households out in Pulaski County. Today that number is down to 244. It is 30 degrees and cloudy. Our large generator runs on propane or gasoline. We have only used propane tanks with itContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 310 – The Wellington – Second day no power, lots of sanding and spending time in the master bedroom”

Year 4, Day 309, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 3/05/2025. The Wellington – The wind was ferocious last night. The neighbors trampoline with the safety fencing on top flew over his house. It crossed the road, went over the farmers fence, and ended up in the trees across that field. We estimate it traveled 700 feet.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 309 – The Wellington – Day ten spackling and sanding, winds and the trampoline”