Project List Progress

If you will look to the right(at the lists) ---------->

Several items have been moved from Unfinished to Finished!

Like, what is missing from this picture?

I will give you a hint.  It is a giant black car that looked like this:

Hubby sold his project car!

And for the past few weekends it was just too hot -107! - to work on the outside of the house.  So some inside stuff got done.

Before:

And because no project we undertake can be simple....

During:

The floor finished.

All that because I wanted to put the washer and new dryer on the other wall.  The plug had to be moved in the wall.

After:  

But only temporarily finished.  Doesn't moving them on that wall give it so much more room?  It's great.  If I don't get laid off, we will dip into the "LayOff Fund" and by the new washer.  Then eventually the room will get painted (we are thinking Lime and Lilac Mist) and new shelves will be put up.

Then the kitchen sink.  It ran.  Not dripped.  RAN.

So we got a new faucet.  The first step: clean out under the sink.

Which I have never done since we moved in here, 5 years ago.  Yes, I know, I suck at the house keeping.

Something had leaked and ate a yellow rubber glove and melted through the tiles.  So those were pulled up and replaced and then covered with contact paper.  Then Hubby started working on replacing the faucet.  The old one must have been quite content to sit there and run forever because it just did not want to come out.  So in the tradition of nothing ever being a simple project, bolts were cut through and sawed off and the angle grinder was used to cut away the stubborn faucet.

And part of the copper piping had to be replaced.  Haylie helped out with this part.

Then under cabinet organizers were installed and viola.

And on the continuing theme of nothing ever going easy......

During the washer move and sink repair, the water had to be turned off.  And we discovered this:

That is our water meter.  Full of water.  We had a leak about a year or so ago that we discovered because the gutter in front of the meter hole, was always full of water.  This one did not get discovered because it has been so dry.  The water was all being evaporated and soaked into the ground.  If we hadn't been fixing things and needed the water shut off, it would not have been discovered until next months water bill.  I had attributed this month's high bill to the running sink and the extra watering. 

So we scooped out all the water and disconnected the pipe. 

 And off to Lowe's, for about the 10th time that weekend, to look for a washer.  Not a washing machine washer, but you know, a round rubber ring, washer.  Which of course they had none the right size.  But I found a package of the rubber material where you could make your own.  So we bought some of that.  And then we made the mistake of looking around.  And we found some shelves for the spare room (that used to be Lazy Teenager's room) so we bought some of them.

And now the "clean the spare room" is moved from the Finished list back to the Unfinished.

It just never ends.