More Work and Charlotte's 1st Game

The weather can't quite decide what it's going to do here. Some days it's cool and even  a bit rainy. Then there's days where it already feels like summer. Last week it has been in the 80's and even low 90's. The good news with that is that our pool temperature is also rising. I think it got up to 70 degrees just from the heat of the sun. Yay!

Well, on one of the cooler wetter days I had decided to go do some clean up around the house in the back yard. I especially wanted to get it cleaned out around the A/C unit. I also cleaned up another area under the deck. It rained a little bit while I was working but it wasn't bad.

This is on one side, plus there were a bunch of leaves and garbage underneath the unit.

View from the other side.

Ah, much better now!

Nice and clean

I had already started cleaning up before I thought to take a before picture. I raked a bunch of leaves out of there and threw away a couple of cracked flower pots.

Here's some of the junk I pulled out from under there.

And my can full of leaves and trash.

After clean up. I needed to ask Curtis on whether to keep those bricks and boards leaning against the house, so I kept them for now.

All cleaned up. The black pipe is an extension the previous owner added to the rain gutter. It was really long and Curtis had to disconnect part of it because it was in the way of other things.

Back to our house project inside. Curtis added the texture to the ceiling in the extra bedroom upstairs. I have since painted primer on it. After working a couple of days on prepping the room for painting (filling holes, removing things, etc.) I did finally get it painted last Saturday. The previous weekend and throughout the week Curtis has begun demolition in our house to connect the two rooms for our master. It's getting exciting!

Spraying on the texture.

Freshly painted ceiling and walls.

Tearing down the walls in the other room.

Little by little. This is the end of the hallway.

Doorway, wall and closet are gone in that room. Our clothes are still in the other closet so we can't take that part down yet.

I moved all of our stuff out of the master bathroom and into the hall bath so that Curtis could start demolition in here. At this point, the toilet was taken out and the mirror. He was in the process of removing the cabinet doors.

Had to open the wall to see what's in there. We'll be turning this into our pantry and cutting in a door anyway.

Old shower is removed and we can see the pipes going into the tub in the hall bath.

Cutting up the floor now to see how things are set up underneath.

We're moving right along on our projects. It's been fun to see what it looks like inside the walls and floors and see how things are done. I'm learning lots of new things.

Alice was supposed to have her first t-ball game last Monday but we had a storm roll through and it got canceled. Charlotte had team pictures and then her first game on Wednesday in Pasco. The pictures were taken right before the game. Their whole team did well. Charlotte got to bat twice. The first time, she hit it but didn't make it to first base in time and got out. The 2nd time, she made it and she proceeded to go to each base after the next hitter went and she made it all the way to home! I even got it on video! It's so fun to watch her and I hope she continues to enjoy playing. The fields they are playing on are nice because they have shades built above the bleachers. It made it so much more enjoyable to watch her game since it was kind of warm that day. Since Charlotte had to be there way early for pictures, I was the one who took her to her game that day. Curtis took Alice to her practice, except he went to the wrong park and by the time he got her to the correct park, it was halfway over. Oops! The frustrations of having practices and games at multiple locations.

It's hard to get a good picture when she's playing in the outfield.

They don't technically keep score but according to the boy who was sitting in front of us in the bleachers, he was keeping track and their team would have won, 13-9 I think. Charlotte saw a friend from school who was playing the pitcher position when she was up to bat the 2nd time. They had talked about it at school beforehand and wondered if they would get to play each other, and sure enough they did!