March Flowers?

I'm still trying to find my green thumb and learn all the names of the plants and flowers in our yard. I planted these gladiolas earlier this year as bulbs transplanted from my mothers yard. Here they are popping up all in a line in my gladiola bed, I can't wait to see them in July with their beautiful pink flowers.


These sweet little grape hyacinth surprised us by lining the outside perimeter of our pool mixed in with the ornamental garlic.


These fast growing soon to be flowers have me wondering. They popped out of the ground about 4 weeks ago and have at least 3 flower stems that have been shy to open. What are they? If you know post a comment because I and dying to know.

Glass blocks, check

We came home today after work and continued to demo the white tiles in the shower. As soon as we tired of the monotonous removal of tile after tile (there are a lot) I said to Rory, lets try to take out the glass blocks. He was game, so we did!
We are attempting to open up this bathroom, and the glass blocks had to go. They are dated and very chunky and the style just won't go with the rustic hand painted tile we will be installing.

Here is a similar look of what we are going to do to our shower. We are cutting out the lowered soffit in the ceiling to raise the shower ceiling up over a foot, and we have just taken out the glass block walls, which we will replace with seamless clear glass.



Here it is before.


And After! It's not pretty yet but you can see the open feeling we are going for. The soffit still has to go.




Here they are, well the ones that made it out of the demo, (we had a few casualties) if you know anyone that wants some glass blocks we've got'em for a good price!

Kitten fun

Well I'm certainly glad it's Monday! This was a long weekend of mayhem. We got the water back on yesterday and that was a relief. Today we have this little girl to look forward to. Playing with kitty is much easier than plumbing problems.


My folks got this kitten yesterday, she is really cute and a little strawberry striped girl. I want to call her Ginger, but the name is not my choice, so we shall see. She is really having a good time today playing and developing her mouser skills.

I got Good news, and Bad news!

Well lets start with the good. I went out this morning bright and early with a good friend and my mother to hit the estate sales. They have been far a few between as the weather has been wet and rainy almost every Saturday since January. This Saturday was no exception, actually more like poury than rainy. But we went anyway and I'm glad I did because I found the sweetest little vase for our guest room nightstand to hold a fresh flower or two when guests stay the night.
The color is so lovely.


I also scored this old little stool base and I can't wait for the time to upholster a top for it.


I managed to paint the backs, and second coat the fronts of our vanity despite the wet weather, the coats dry fast if you apply thin ones.



Now the Bad. Well you know what happens when people remodel their own master bathrooms, after the previous owners already remodeled it but did a lousy job? Bad things happen. Rory was attempting to remove the mold ridden step into our shower while I was out picking up tools from the folks, when he cut into a hidden water pipe and drenched the bathroom and some of our bedroom. He quickly shut the water off and assessed the situation. We are now on damage control and hopefully this will be a thing to laugh at when we're old.

Our beautiful new expensive carpet is currently in this position until it drys out. I'm trying to remain calm. Excuse my language, but this is my mantra....deep breath...."Nothing is fucked dude."


Here is Rory fixing the "little mistake" and hopefully we'll have water on for tonight.


This shot shows how gross it is where the leaky tile had been, due to the previous owner remodel booboo of not supporting the footing to the shower.


All I have left to say is thank goodness for parents that watch our little mischievous puppy Baxter in these stressful times, without you we would be pulling our hair out. Thank you! And thanks for the plumbing tools to fix this dad!