Piper's new Hang Out

Keeping a look out for the squirrels.


Looks like its too cold for the squirrely's today

It's Winter in Vermont

Look closely, the mercury hasn't hit 10 degrees...and this doesn't show the windchill factor, of -5 degrees!!!

BRRRRRR.....

Weekend Update

Friday I said to myself, "I am not leaving the house today and I am going to bake cookies".
6 hours later, I had finished baking my cookies, total count was 10 dozen cookies and 2 dozen Chinese noodle candies (that's what my Grandma called them)!


SUGAR COOKIES


J gets home and he asks me, "why did you make so many cookies, who are they for?"
My answer, "I have no idea!"

We did go to the neighborhood holiday party, I brought about 3 dozen cookies.
All the neighbors where asking if we were the new ones that just moved in, and we had to keep telling everyone that we have been here for 2 1/2 years. I guess that's what happens when you don't ever go to neighborhood functions! It's pretty crazy because there are a bunch of neighbors that are from CT. One guy even went to the same high school as my uncle. Small World!

Saturday and Sunday we worked on the bathroom. I don't think I have posted any pictures. Right now our guest bathroom is completely demo'ed. We are down to the studs.


BEFORE


AFTER

Now we have to decide what we want to do. Our goal is to do everything ourselves, as much as we can. J is good with electricity and some plumbing. We are going to try and do the tiling ourselves as well. We shall see.

That's a really beauty Clark!

Yes, we got the official Griswold Family Christmas tree (minus the squirrel).


10 feet...


1 new ladder, 300 lights...


250 ornaments and 6 hours later...


...It is decorated!

Random thoughts

1. I was at the grocery store on Saturday and there was a little boy behind me in line, maybe about 9 years old. He had flowers that he was going to buy. His father was standing a little farther away. The dad was teaching his son how to buy flowers for his mom. The dad said, "go ahead pick a lane. Get in line. You can pay without me being there. I want you to know how to buy flowers on your own in case you decide you want to surprise mom with something." How cute is that?!?!?

2. Someone called me "mam" today!! My goodness, I have only been 30 for a month.

Mouse in the house

So, we didn't get much work done on the bathroom this week because we are dealing with a mouse problem. On Tuesday night we were woke up my the LOUD mice digging in the walls. It freaked me out. They were loud and then all of a sudden we heard a weird vibration noise, I think maybe it was electrocuted. We haven't heard them much since, but we set about 10 traps, caught one 2 nights ago. The little stinker likes peanut butter to much to resist the mouse trap. We'll see if he likes Cheerios too, that was the buffet served last night.

Demo Time

This past weekend J and I decided we were going to demo the guest bathroom.
We knew it had to be done anyway because there was a small leak somewhere. That somewhere was behind the water faucet and certainly not the floor because the people that installed this "garden tub" poured a nice 4 inch solid cement floor.

Here are some pics of the bathroom.

Taking down the pink and white striped wall tile


All gone. Part of the garden tub ripped up


Found the floor under all of the concrete


Wall paper one minute...


...gone the next.


A view from the toilet. The bathroom is long and narrow.

Hopefully we will have more pictures after this weekend of progress...but I think we are still in demo phase.