Thanksgiving morning - I was missing the girls alot, but I was able to give Jen some tips for stuffing the turkey, while Randy was snapping pictures of the finished work for the week.

More pictures of the busy week.

PGE & Cabinets arrive

We have been waiting and waiting for our electricity to be hooked up with PGE. Since we had quite a winter storm on Monday 11/12, we were told that we should expect any service to arrive until the Monday after Thanksgiving. We could get our new cabinets, but would need to try and keep the temp around 45-50 degrees. They started delivering the cabinets on Wednesday, Nov.14 and worked on the installation on Thursday 11/15 & Friday 11/16. Low and behold a BEAUTIFUL!!! PGE truck drove in on Friday 11/16 and they hooked up all our electricity in about 2 1/2 hours. Plus D&R came by and got the gas furnace started. Randy flew in on Friday evening and we had gas and electricity, plus cabinets. What a deal!!!! Garage doors were scheduled for Monday, 11/19. Jeremy and Matt are finishing up the stone fireplace as well as setting the wire for the "heated" tile in the master bath. Finally before Thanksgiving we hope to pick out our granite. A big feat since I'm still not completely sure I like granite - Randy loves it, especially the wilder ones. Wish us luck.

Interior Painting and Fireplace Finishes

This week started with a lovely cement front porch on Monday and a cement pad outside the garage. Tom & Terry finished up on the outside painting and moved inside as the rains started. Jeremy & Matt bounced back and forth between the fireplace mantle, the master bath tile work and the rock front on the fireplace. Today, Saturday we were finally able to take all but a couple of the plastic covers off the windows. It made everything so much brighter. Next week we will be painting a couple more days and then the cabinets come in YIPEEE!!!! The green in the kitchen looks kinda "minty" in the picture, but it really is a very subtle sage green and the last picture is our tile selections (finally) for the master bath.

Soon we can enter the front door!

Even for Oregon we had gobs of rain in October, but the last week or so has been wonderful after the fog has burned off. The outside painting is 99% complete and they poured the front porch and steps on Monday 11/5. The cement outside the garage is being poured today. Still trying to figure out the inside colors. Paint chips are of little help when you are considering a "huge" wall like in the great room. Trying to make it feel cozy not cold, but still not like a tunnel. We'll see. Have news that the cabinets are finished at the cab. shop and we will be bringing them in to install,stain, finish, as soon as we have electricity. Yes PGE-- hurry up!! The ditch is covered and everything is ready for the transformer. Better get back to my paperwork...have church council tonight and have monthly reports to complete.