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Stairway to Loft Makeover

BEFORE  

AFTER 

BEFORE  

AFTER 

BEFORE   

AFTER  


DURING – This huge beam had to be installed because the floor was sagging.  Look at the 1st “after” photo below to see how beautifully it was covered up.

  

 

AFTER – The finished Loft!  New windows, refurbished wood floors, walls insulated and dry walled, new huge beam, electrical, and some Cindi TLC (beautify, trim & paint).  Oh, and the stairway refurb too – new paint & trim and new carpet.

This one’s a panorama so it might look slightly warped.

  

WHOO HOO!!  It still needs screens on the windows, windows cleaned, & blinds installed, but not bad for a sneak peek.

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Kitchen Makeover

It’s taken almost 4 months.

BEFORE  

  

DEMOLITION

ROTTEN BOARDS

  

  

WALL REINFORCEMENT & ELECTRICAL

  

  

  

 

DRYWALL (& sweet little Maya)  

 


CABINET DELIVERY & INSTALLATION:

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

NOW IT’S A BEAUTIFUL KITCHEN!    

 

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Thursday

I picked Maya up for gymnastics and Sparty greeted me.   

  

Maya beat me to the car … “I won!” she said.

 

Selfies at Nati’s. 

   

  

  

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Grandsons & more blooms

Alo at Gymnastics.  Looks like he’s got a boo boo on his owie …    


Sparty at sleep.  So sweet! 

Sunday Skyping with Robb, Akuch & Alo.  Tomorrow I get to see them in person!  

I took some more blooming photos this morning.   Look how many blooms are on this pink orchid now!  It’s very happy.  I’ll be heading out for a light water when done with this post. 

The many colors of Hibiscus.   

     

Today, simple preparations for an “easy” birthday party.  Happy Birthday (yesterday), Mom!

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Garden photos

We’ve got a lot of blooms in the patio right now.

   

       

   

       

   

       

Aren’t they beautiful?

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Playing Catch Up

Time to catch up on photos of the past couple weeks.        

   

    

 

Haha.  Alo doesn’t want to get too close!  Taking shelter …

  

 I’m getting excited about my short trip next weekend to the Bay Area!

Cape May is getting very close to being done.  The floors are beautiful, but covered with paper for protection while finishing work is done inside, so I don’t have photos yet.

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Saturday in the Park

I think it was the 4th of July… [Chicago].  But actually it was Saturday the 7th of March somewhere near Walnut Creek – a nice photo of the family.

Meanwhile back in SD, Jen’s niece Jessica and friends visiting SD from someplace cold.  I believe they call it Ohio.

Jessica tastes her first oyster on the half shell.

But that didn’t stop her from trying an oyster shooter.



I actually have a video of that….

http://youtu.be/NYb198K-eDE

It was a fun happy hour at South Coast Monday night.

Thursday – day 5 (& the last day) of my workshop.  No gymnastics for me.   No Nati’s for me either.

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Sparty – pretty tired …

When we were babysitting Saturday evening, Sparty was so tired, he could barely sit up straight.  I took 2 videos.  Here he’s drinking from the water bottle.  His eyes were so tired.  I’ll save the other video for later in the week.

http://youtu.be/0EBNu1WtMeI

I’m in a 5 day workshop this week that started yesterday.  I got home totally wasted yesterday.  Today, more of the same.

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Mixing Mud

After gymnastics Thursday, Maya helped Pappa and the tapers down at Cape May – mixing mud.

Here, she’s inspecting the kitchen to make sure the tapers were doing a good job.  She needed to climb the ladder to get up close to the ceiling.

After a close inspection, she gave her approval and we all went to Nati’s.

Here’s Sparty in his SuperSparty shirt last night.


Ya gotta love all that caked on “stuff” around his nose and mouth.  A true boy.

We’re babysitting these little ones tonight.  More photo ops for me!

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