Making Progress

The construction is moving along slowly but surely. Here are a few pictures of the new sun room.

Preparing for siding

New siding to match the house

I'm still working on the sweater for my youngest son. I think the body is just about long enough and I've started on one of the sleeves. I put the live stitches on a string and had him try it on, and the fit looks just right! I'll try to put up a picture of it next time.

I've decided I need to pull out my UFOs (un-finished objects) and try to finish up some of those this year. I've got a cardigan sweater with a color work yoke that only needs an edging that I'm going to try to finish up first. The plan is to slowly work my way through all my UFOs this year before I start too many new knitting projects. I'm also trying to knit up the yarn I have in my stash before I buy more yarn. Wish me luck.

OK, much time has passed since I wrote the first section of this blog. In the meantime, we have experience a massive snowstorm and lost power for a couple of days (again!).

The cars in the driveway were buried!

The tree in the front yard survived without any damage and looked beautiful

Back yard winter wonderland

Digging out the driveway with the snow blower

Thank goodness we only lost power for 2 days because it was COLD! We didn't have to go to a shelter because we kept a fire going in the fireplace and that kept us warm enough. By the second morning I even got smart and cooked breakfast on top of our wood stove!

Boiling water for tea and frying up turkey bacon in the pan!

Let us not forget, however, that we are still in the middle of a construction project. Up until the snowstorm, the crew had been working outside and around the sun room and the hallway that was added to the back of the house. Well, less than a day after we got power back, the crew arrived Monday morning, ready to start on the kitchen, in other words, kitchen demo! I spent the whole morning frantically emptying the cabinets (thankfully, we had planned ahead and emptied out all the stuff we don't use daily, so the cabinets were only half full) and there was much banging and dust. School had been cancelled because of the snowstorm so the kids were home for it too. After 2 days of demo I think they were relieved to go back to school!

upper cabinets removed, lower cabinets about to be

removing cabinets

cooked dinner one last night in the old kitchen

 Look at the interesting colors the kitchen used to be. They even had wallpaper once upon a time. And mildew (yuck!) and old mouse nests (double yuck!).

kitchen down to studs and sub-floor

This past week has been loud but productive.We now have a new ceiling, walls and new sub-floor.

new walls, ceiling, and floor

new walls, ceiling, and floor

This week is supposed to be taping and mudding, then paint and tile. The following week we might just have a brand spanking new, working kitchen! Now I need to get back to work cleaning up the dust from this past week.

Shelley in CT