Belated 1st Grade picture

Terrific, Radiant, Humble

MOW turned in 11 mini 4-H projects and received 11 blue ribbons.

Do you recognize the words in the title of the post?

UPDATED: Look who was in our neighborhood

And check out what we got for Dad's office...

By the way, Mr. McFeely made it into the Mister Rogers Remixed video, which is worth watching:

And the answer to why Mister Rogers received whistles that he hadn't ordered is Amazon Yesterday Shipping...

The moral of today's story is...

If a nine stake region announces a special fast for rain and you plan to leave on a camping trip the following day, you might want to reconsider your trip.  Probably more than half an inch Monday night/Tuesday morning.  Probably more than three quarters of an inch Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.  95% chance of rain/thunderstorms tonight.  No, the kids have not supplemented the fast with a rain dance.

The house in disarray

We're going to have our 2"x8" floor joists reinforced with sister joists.  And since we needed to strip down the subfloor for this project anyway, we are getting rid of the carpet in the dining room and the linoleum in the kitchen, to be replaced by laminate flooring.  In a week and a half, this should all look much different and we'll be very happy to have a dishwasher again.

Carpet folded back in the front room

Carpet and wallpaper removed from dining room 

Linoleum and carpet debris on the deck 

A loose cabinet 

First and second layers of linoleum and first layer of 1/4" plywood (I removed the second layer of plywood and the third layer of linoleum last night.

Somewhat gutted kitchen 

Current state of front room 

The stove in my office 

Dining room table downstairs 

Of course we're never in the middle of just one project.  Furniture from upstairs joined our food storage in the family room.  We moved the food storage out of the laundry room since we've need to replace the ceiling  in there, and, while moving the food storage, we noticed that the duct work has a gap from when our new furnace was installed earlier this year, so we're waiting for that to be resolved too before the food moves back in.

Food storage 

More food storage

The hole in the ceiling in the laundry room 

But why have only one hole in the ceiling when you could have two?  The master shower has been leaking and I finally got to opening up the ceiling to take a look.  The pipe either just needs to be tightened or needs some plumbers putty and tightening.  We'll figure that our when the kitchen floor is done.  In the meantime, the bucket catches the drips when we find time to shower.

Good news though, over a year since we started the project, the third attempt at tiling the downstairs bathroom is finally nearing completion.  

Ohio

WHY, OH WHY, OH WHY, OH?

We took a quick three day trip to Cincinnati, Columbus, and Dayton.  It was hot, but our home was hotter.  Besides trouble with street signs and one lost water bottle and bedtime difficulties, the trip went smoothly.

Pi Day (yes,this post is a bit overdue)

Miss M---- heard it was Pi Day

So she decided to bake up some pie:

Curried Apple Cinnamon Cranberry Pie

(topped with fruit snacks and nuts)
It was quite delicious.