My barn

THE BARN IS DONE!!!

The End Is Near!!!

.Butch got his power chair about a month ago. He likes it alot. He doesn't use it much because our upstairs is not very big and he can just zoom around in the wheelchair. He wanted the powerchair for outside and when we go away but at 250 pounds we can't get it downstairs by ourselves. And our car won't carry the extra weight of a lift and I am not buying a different car. The cats like to sleep in it.

These are the 3 stooges that put up my dry wall. Mike, Donny and my son Shawn. I laughed my butt off. It looks pretty good though.

My back wall where my cutting station will be. My lights are in and working on all three sides. My airconditiioner is in and working. Walls are all painted for the last time. I bought my paint at Lowe's and I always check out the discount paint table and found a can of yellow that was almost the color I wanted so I got it. Well he needed another can and I didn't know what color it was because it wasn't on the can sooooo back to Lowe's I went and back to the discount table where I found another can that was just about the same color and I bought it. It ended up being closer to the color I wanted. My walls look very good.

Mike started to paint my trim and I was having second and third thoughts about having lime green with my wall color. It didn't look very good out in the sunlight. I liked it but I didn't at the

same time. After about 4 coats of paint it got better. At that point I said the heck with it, and decided that was what was going in there. Today the trim started to go in the barn and I really like it. My carpet was laid yesterday and I forgot to take a picture and it was covered up with tarps. All that is left to do is the rest of the trim and the covers on the plug ins and the light switchs. Looks like I can start moving in maybe sunday. It will be so nice to go out there to sew and not have all my helpers. And they won't be in there using my things to cut up sheets, pillowcases. and their

One of my finnished windows. I have to come up with something to do with the breaker box which is so ugly. Hopefully the next pictures I show will be all done ones.

For Judy

Judy told me today at quilt club to update my blog. When I said I just did she then told me to add pictures, so here Judy these are for you. This picture is of Butch and grand daughter Brittany at the Ohio State/Michigan game party about 5 years ago. This was such a good picture of them that I made it into an 8x10. It is easy to see how much she loves her grandpa.

My favorite car! I had wanted a VW Bug for as long as I remember. Of course back when I was younger I wanted a yellow one with purple interier. Yuck! I did finialy buy my yellow one but it was black inside. Nick really liked it too. He still asks me when we can go and get it back. I miss it too. He still calls me the bug grandma.
My last hours of work went well yesterday. No tears!

Quilt club was fun today. We worked on the blocks for our 2010 raffle quilt. It is going to beanother great looking quilt. If this looks funny when I post it it is because my puter is acting funny. I can't explain what it is doing but it just isn't right. The barn is sanded and the primer is on so the painting will start tomorrow. I am going to go pick out my trim and carpet tomorrow.

Just checking in

Not too much to update on the barn, He did get my airconditioner in the wall and has started to sand the walls but not much else is going on out there. I reminded him tonight that he said last week that it would be done by the time my job ended. That is Friday at 12:00. I don't think he's going to make it. I have 14 hours left to work. They told us yesterday that we are done at 12:00 on Friday, not to start anything that we can't finish by then. At 12:00 we are to shut our machines off and take our personal things and leave. But we are to go to Ryan's and they are buying our lunch and paying us till 2:30. Then we get our bonus for staying on till the end with our last checks. Am I going to cry? Probably. I'm allowed, I have worked there for 33 years and this is going to be very different for me. I hope I can find a new one that is easy and pays alot. I hope I don't have to say---Do you want fries with that? On a good note I will have lots of sewing time. If I get off my butt and get to it. And sometime I will get to move to the barn. I am going to start to put my cabinets together. I have to if I want to put my fabric in something.

The Barn, What Else!

The barn is coming along nicely now. Handyman has all the mud on the walls now. It needs sanded, painted and the lights, heaters, ceiling fan hooked up and the airconditioner installed. I have to find some carpet too. Then it will be moving month. I say a month because of how much I have to put in there. Handyman says that it will be done by the time my job ends. That is next Friday, the 13th [does not sound good]. I don't have a good feeling about that day. I don't want to start job hunting!!!! I don't know how to job hunt!! I have a feeling that I will be really bummed out over this. It hasn't been to bad yet. Maybe I will just crawl into bed and pull the covers over my head and stay there.