Week 6 & 7

I have no video from Week 5 which was tile and trim week. There was a lot of equipment everywhere and not much room for us in there. These videos are from March 16th.

We went to Arizona to visit Craig's family for Easter/Spring Break. While we were there, we visited the campus of ASU, went to Jerome, AZ - it's an artist's colony, saw Tuzigoot National Monument - home of a tribe of Sinagua Indians - and drove through Sedona, AZ. We were one minute too late to get into Slide Rock Park south of Sedona which bummed us out, but it was a little too cold to be sliding down wet rocks anyway.

During our trip to AZ, the floors were sanded and the radiators re-installed. Here is some video shot of April 1st (no April fooling LOL), the end of Week 7.

Happy Earth Day!

Hello all of you tree huggers out there. I was looking for a good tree hugger picture and found many uh "interesting" photos of people hugging trees in various states of (un)dress, but the one above was the best by far in my opinion.

We had an absolutely gorgeous Earth Day. It was warmer outside than inside our house for some odd reason, so I spent alot of the day gardening. Some of the plants in the backyard took a beating from the construction, but we did not have to yank up the beautiful azalea that I love. It's a bit smaller, but alive. I love the spring in MD. We had torrential rain on Sunday and yesterday. Luckily, we had just finished seeding the lawn and laying a grass mat cover over the bare spots.

Back to the project. The fourth week's recap:

Drywall (2/27)

and SUBFLOOR (2/28)!!!

I can't EVEN tell you how happy I was to have some type of flooring down. So much dust, chunks of plaster and drywall and everything else fell through the floor into the back portion of the basement. I was vacuuming every day. I am surprised we aren't all asthmatics.

No Longer in a Dark, Cold Place - Week 3

It's February 19th and 21st respectively and we get lights and insulation - things are heating up!

We are Topless and Cold - Week 2

Well, sort of topless. Here's video from February 11th and the back of the house has no roof and it's freezing. Even my voice sounds cold. Also I was VERY unhappy about the pipe misplacement, especially since neither of us were consulted once a change was needed. My famous line, "Whose house IS this?" Beware the wrath of Kris.

Luckily, we had a day without rain and the guys worked very hard to get a roof over our heads. They knew they needed some brownie points. It's February 13th, luckily NOT a Friday.

We have risen from the dead

In the spirit of the Easter season, the clanmccarter blogspot has also risen from the dead. :-)

I am attempting to attach a bunch of video snippets regarding our kitchen, bath and uper porch remodel. Enjoy the comments Craig and I make - you may want to turn your volume up a smidge - and have fun re-living our adventure.

This one is Before the Demolition taken on January 28.

The next few are the first week of February.

Day One

Day Two

I'll post more later. It takes forever to upload these.