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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”

Year 4, Day 308, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 3/04/2025. The Wellington – Spackling and sanding continues. This is day number nine. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/4hQIPgd 12 Black Wall Hooks: I just put a few of these up in my master bedroom closet. TheContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 308 – The Wellington – Day nine spackling and sanding”

Year 4, Day 307, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 3/03/2025. The Wellington – Steve worked on sanding and spackling. The second coat is basically done. Me, I decide to break out of this work mode and head to the Somerset Newcomers club Monthly meeting. It was a combination meeting of the Newcomers and the Alumni Newcomers.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 307 – The Wellington – Second coat spackling almost completed, Newcomers meeting, restaurant fall”

Year 4, Day 306, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 3/02/2025. The Wellington – Relaxing slow day cleaning up the bar room, and cutting up cardboard and disposing of it. Getting rid of cardboard is a never ending process. 2027 Cape Horn and Antarctica Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’sContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 306 – The Wellington – Never ending Cardboard disposal”

Year 4, Day 305, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 3/01/2025. The Wellington – Drywall finishing continues with spackling and sanding of second coat. It is so dusty that I wear a mask full time in the house now. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/4hQIPgd 12 BlackContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 305 – The Wellington – Second coat spackling and sanding”

Year 4, Day 304, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 2/28/2025. The Wellington – It is a beautiful high in the 50’s sunny day. After a healthy breakfast, the sanding and spackling continued. Everything in the house is dusty even with the wind blowing the dust out the door. Thank goodness it is a warmer day. IContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 304 – The Wellington – Spackling sanding, spackling sanding, Spackling sanding and repeat”

Year 4, Day 303, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 2/27/2025. The Wellington – The treadmill is cleaned up and ready in the bar room for the morning. Woohoo, back to some daily 5am walking with the best field views. Happy days are here! The corner bead is all up in the main living area, hallways, andContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 303 – The Wellington – Treadmill up in Bar room, Corner beads up in Living area, Cape Horn you say”

Year 4, Day 302, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 2/26/2025. The Wellington – The yard is all dry and it is a beautiful day. So we changed our focus and cleaned up the outside pile of scrap building materials. Two trips to the transfer station and the pile is gone. Things to ponder today! Have to leaveContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 302 – The Wellington – Scrap building material pile to transfer station”

Year 4, Day 301, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 2/25/2025. The Wellington – It’s a high drywall spackling and taping work in the foyer day. Work is a little slower in these high area. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: ttps://amzn.to/4kcurQQ Old English Scratch Cover: This isContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 301 – The Wellington – High foyer spackling day”

Year 4, Day 300, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 2/24/2025. The Wellington – Work started at 6:30am this morning. We are starting to see the finish line and are getting more speed up. We have never seen spackle dry this fast. It is almost dry as soon as it hits the wall. The ideal indoor humidityContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 300 – The Wellington – Living area spackling continues, Miss Piggy is back to work”

Year 4, Day 299, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 2/23/2025. The Wellington – Out for breakfast and then back home to tape and spackle. Another high job. I was fired from the job after only a short time. Lol, I was never fired from a job before and my husband is the one to fire me.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 299 – The Wellington – Living area spackling and fired”

Year 4, Day 298, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 2/22/2025. The Wellington – It feels like it is one step forward two steps back. Our living area is all torn apart again until the the spackling and painting has been completed. The carpet is up and we are back to living on the plywood floors. NoContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 298 – The Wellington – Living area emptied and carpet rolled up making ready for spackling”

Year 4, Day 297, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 2/21/2025. The Wellington – Getting settled in the master bedroom closet and adding some finishing touches. Looking at color combinations for the Living area, hall, and foyer. The Master bedroom is painted with Sea Salt. Spent some time foraging the attic finding packed away stuff. This isContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 4 Day 297 – The Wellington – Main level interior doors being painted and installed along with trim finishing, attic foraging”