Christmas In October - Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Tuesday night after work, Ryan dropped me off at Geoff & Laura's place before he went out to the house to meet the guy who is going to be refinishing the hardwood flooring. Dad bought Geoff & Laura a rather large pumpkin...it was about 120 pounds, I think. They wanted me to draw a face on it so that Geoff could carve it. This pumpkin was HUGE! But we got it done. Here are a few pictures. Geoff ended up using a drywall knife to carve it, it was so big. While Geoff and I worked on the big pumpkin, Laura carved a smaller one, which turned out good too...I just didn't get any good pictures of it.

This is the one that Laura carved:

And this is the one that I drew that Geoff carved.

In the middle of carving, Ryan called and asked if we were ready to go yet. We were going out to Mom & Dad's for Christmas Dinner with Grandma, since she'll be in Cuba for Christmas. I told him that we weren't ready yet, and asked how his meeting went. He met with the guy that's going to be doing the refinishing of the hardwoods, and he seemed to think that we did a good job on the floors. He is going to start refinishing on November 9th, and work right through the long weekend, so that's good, at least that will be done. Then the carpets can go in, and then we should be able to move stuff in...we just won't have a counter top or stove top or kitchen sink...Hmmmm...maybe it's not worth it to move in early...


After supper we went to the house with Geoff and Laura to show them the floors. Kris had called while we were at Mom & Dad's, and said that he was working on the tiles in the bathroom upstairs, so I told him that we would be there to take a look. What he's got done so far looks really good. It's probably kinda hard for him to work, because he's working with only two lights; one set for the bathroom and one set for the garage when he's cutting the tiles to fit. He figures that he'll have everything done by Sunday night for sure. I can't wait to see the finished product. Here are some previews...


The shower floor:

The blacksplash around the tub:

And the ceiling of the shower:

We have to go to the house on Wednesday night to clean out the bathtub so that Kris can see if there are any scratches in it before he starts working on the tiling around the tub...just so that he knows if any of the scratches were his fault or not.

There's nothing much else going on at the house for the rest of the week. On the weekend we're going to move the oven, cooktop, and all of the lights into the house into their respective rooms so that when the electrician goes there on Monday he will be able to put the lights up. That should make a huge difference in the house...