Hi everyone! Keith & I have had another productive weekend up in the mountains. We’ll be here a little longer than we intended. Originally we planned to head back to Atlanta today, but when we arrived on Friday we found that our furnace blower wasn’t working. And thanks to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Zeta blowing through the southeast, the soonest we can get someone out here to look at it (and hopefully fix it) is Thursday. We are both super grateful for our direct vent fireplace which has a blower on it as it is currently acting as our furnace for the house! It’s supposed to drop into the 20’s here tonight so it will get a workout!
You may remember that last week I had finished assembling and painting the planter box to cover our wellhead. Yesterday while Keith was busy blowing an insane amount of leaves out of our yard and driveway, I got it set in place. I put our house numbers on it and planted some pansies and violas. I think it looks fantastic! What do you think?
You may notice my flowers are purple and gold! 😉 LSU may be having a tough rebuilding year, but I still love them!
After all of our yard work, we worked on something necessary but far from glamorous. Insulation. You may remember that our stairwell was opened up and we moved the door down to the bottom. We will eventually finish the basement and when we do we will add HVAC down there. But until then we needed to add some insulation down the stairwell.
Once we finished putting up the insulation, we moved on to what would turn out to be a comical task. When Keith moved the electrical and plumbing, we had some old holes in the subfloor which needed to be filled. So we used spray foam to cover them. You know, this stuff…Great Stuff.
Well the comedy (which thankfully did not turn into a tragedy) started when Keith couldn’t get it to stay up in a fairly large hole so he used his hand to try to keep it in. In retrospect not such a wise idea, but we weren’t really thinking. Then Keith realized a big blob of it got in my hair. Oh no! I had been handing him the can so was standing under where he was putting it and some got in my hair. We quickly tried to finish up the task and then started looking for how we were going to get it off of Keith’s hand and out of my hair. We tried denatured alcohol and all that really did was make both of us cold. We read the side of the can and it said acetone would take it off, so I ran to Dollar General (because Keith’s hand was covered in plastic Great Stuff) and got some fingernail polish remover. Thankfully it worked and it didn’t strip my hair, although I did lose some strands as I was trying to get it out. Crisis averted.
Today we worked on the backsplash and caulking. Between caulking and the planter yesterday, my nails are a mess! I caulked all of the ceiling trim we put up last week and Keith & I put up the backsplash. We had originally intended to put bead board up, but after having trouble finding the product we wanted I suggested we put in vertically hung shiplap. Keith got on board and we are really pleased with the outcome. It took some time and lots of trips up and down to the garage, but we finished it. Once we finished hanging it, you guessed it…I caulked it all. Good fun!
We had every intention of finally trimming out the window as well, but then realized that we bought 1×6 instead of 1×8 trim for it. Since we have the thickness of the shiplap in addition to the window frame, 1×6 wouldn’t work. So back to Home Depot we’ll go. And honestly, we were pooped and didn’t mind calling it a day at that point.
Since we’ll be up here until Thursday, I’m hoping I can get some of the painting done in the evenings. I still have all of the ceiling trim and the backsplash to paint. It’s all caulked and ready to go, so hopefully it won’t take too long.
I hope you all have a great week!
At Home with the Heffrons 