Almost A Century Ago Today

We have a gentleman a our church that is 97 years old and fell and broke his hip just like Dad did in 2005. He underwent surgery to put pins in his hip and survived his surgery just like Dad did. He is doing quite well to this point, just like Dad was. Well it got me thinking about Dad as I talked to this man’s daughter, and brought tears to my eyes. Christi mentioned that next year on this day Day would have turned 100 years old. I have one of my favorite pictures of Dad sitting on my desk in my office where I am writing this.

I thought I would share a few pictures of Dad and Mom over the years also that brings happy thoughts when I think about their life together and Dad’s great faithfulness to our great God.
This picture with Dad in the back row was taken at Hudsonville Baptist Church 50th
anniversary celebration. Dad was one of the charter members when the church started.

This picture of Mom & Dad we found as were going through Dad’s stuff after selling his condomium.

This picture of Dad’s favorite chair you would usually find him in when you came to visit him. He would either be reading the press,or a good book,or his favorite hobby toward the latter years,taking a nap.

And finally this picture of Mom and Dad’s grave stone with a beautiful bouquet of flowers that Phil and Sherry provide each year.

I thought you may find some interesting facts that I looked up that took place the year Dad was born and some interesting people born that same year. We miss you Mom and Dad and look forward to seeing you again someday in heaven.

Dale & Christi

A Little Breeze If You May, My Dear

Well with this post I can almost say we are 95% or more done with our main level.  I had added a light in my office, and just needed to hang the ceiling fan and light above our bed.  Still don’t understand why they made Condo’s without lights in the ceiling but back in 1982 who knows what they were thinking.  Well the hanging of this light went much easier then the one in my office, as far as trying to run the wire down from the attic to the light switch and to the fan.  That’s when the tough part came into play.  I can laugh now but at the time it was very frustrating to say the least.  I had planned on wiring it so you could turn the fan and the light on separately, but I could not for the life of me get it to work.  Both switches turned both the fan and the light on.  Well I gave up last night and then went on-line and “Googled” “wiring a ceiling fan and light”.  After reading that and thinking about how “I” had wired it, “MY” light finally went on.  I came home from work and it took me about 5 minutes to wire it correctly and now it works just like it was designed to work.

                               The Finished Look of our bedroom.

                                   

Don’t you just love the little Teddy that sits on our bed?  I gave that to Christi for Valentine’s Day this past year and he has found a permanent home snuggled in all our pillows.

Thanks for checking in with us

 

Dale and Christi

Let’s Build a Pantry

When we moved into this condo the washer and dryer were in a hall closet and we did not care for this design and decided to put our washer and dryer downstairs and make this into a nice large walk in pantry.

Dale installing the shelving brackets.

Shelves all installed.  Now just need the lady of the house to stock it.

We have now almost completed the entire main level of our “new” condo.  The only things left to do is to hang a ceiling fan and light above our bed and paint the front door.  I hope you have enjoyed watching our progress. We will not be doing to much for a while as we are running low on funds but we plan on finishing off the basement and we will post this project when we get to it.  So for now thanks to all who have followed our progress, and if you are in the area stop in and say “Hi.”

Dale & Christi.

Time to finish this bathroom.

When we moved into the condo we knew we wanted to tear out the old bathtub and toilet, but we had other rooms to get done first.  We had a new marble countertop installed, but now it was time to do some major remodeling.  First you have to go out with the old, which was not that easy.  I had to cut the old one piece tub into two or three pieces to get it out the door.  Sorry no pictures – I just wanted to “get it done.”

Then my helper came in and cleaned up after me so we could get ready to install the new bathtub and surround.

Christi is such a help, and by the smile on her face you can tell we are REALLY enjoying working together.

This tub did not go in as easy as it looks.  If it were even an 1/8” longer it would not have fit, but after some scratching of our heads and some pushing and pulling it dropped right into place like it was made to go there.  The neat thing about this tub and surround is that we had picked it out at Lowes because it has a rope decoration which does not really show up on these pictures, but at the time we were not ready to purchase it yet.  Well, one time when Christi was at Lowe’s for something else she just happen to walk by this department and they had “our” tub and surround sitting out on the floor and had a floor model price tag on it and so she called me as asked if we should purchase it that day as it was 75% less then what we would have had to pay for it.  So we purchased it that day and stored in our garage until we started this project.

Tub and surround are now installed and now time for Dale too put some drywall in.

Drywall installed and mud work done and ready for Dale to paint.

Dale had to put new baseboard and molding down as we had new flooring installed.

And time to hang the new shower curtain rod.  We are getting close!!!!!

This needed a women’s touch.

The bathroom is completely done and it seemed so nice to not have to run downstairs to use the bathroom as this project took us about two weeks, but we are both thrilled how it turned out.

Our next blog will be how we turned what originally was the laundry closet into a pantry.  So for now thanks for following our fun projects.

 

Dale & Christi.

Progress On the Laundry Room

Drywall is done enough to install the washer and dryer and toilet.  But we need to put some paint on these walls first.  We had this same color at our former home, and loved it, so we decided to use it in this room again.

Time to cover up the floor with some linoleum.

Ready for the washer and dryer, and toilet to be installed.  Now Christi does not have to run over her to mom’s to do her laundry.  We added the stands to go underneath the washer and dryer, as it raises them up so you don’t have to bend over so much, and has a drawer in each one to store needed items.

I bet not too many people can say that they have their toilet spotlighted. Since we are not done with room this is our temporary light in the room.

Now that we have this room as far as we need for now, we can finish off the bathroom up stairs.  That will be our next blog.  Hope you are enjoying watching our projects as much as we are having fun doing them.