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WTF

Friday, October 30th, 2009

What is this some sort of crazy abstract painting?
A light installation?
A sculpture in progress?

RAAAWWWRRRR!

It’s the old randomly placed mailbox hole.

The boy ripped out the old mailbox slot so that we can patch the interior bit of wall in the guest bedroom. There was a bunch of trash and black widows living in there – eeewww. We have a mailbox on the street so this bit of nostalgia is now defunct and a bit too breezy and disgusting to keep around.

We are trying to figure out how to patch this bad boy up so that there isn’t a large gaping peep hole looking directly into the guest bedroom. Anyone want to stay over? I swear that one weird neighbor won’t stop by and watch you sleeping…

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Guest Bedroom Progress

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Here is a sneak peek of our progress. It sure is starting to look like a real live wall.

The Boy wants it officially known that he alone accomplished the rebuilding of the guest bedroom wall. He also said not to post anymore pictures of him bending over, which obviously won’t stop since it’s my favorite thing to do on the blog.

See – here, here, here.

I want it officially known that I paid for it all. I did help hold things and mud a bit as well – oh, and troubleshoot the planning and execution issues (thats a big job, really, if you have a boss or manager they will agree). Our friend Gary did help mud a little as well. But, yes The Boy really has done most of the labor and so far he’s done a great job.

I’m looking forward to getting this dusty, messy part of the project finished so we can make the guest bedroom purty.