Working Weekend

There was no long weekend at our house this May! On Monday we had lots of people over to help us get the house finished. Darcy was able to finish staining the front porch and cross numerous things off his to-do list.

Gord and Shannon came and helped. We had to pull all the metal mesh off the front because we didn't know rainscreen was mandatory. So that had to come off so we could put the rainscreen on, and then have it inspected.

Lots of lights went up. Nicole put up the pendant lights in the kitchen.

Torrey put up a bunch of lights and this fan,

Chris put up the dining room light

and hooked up the hood fan, among other things.

This light is over the stairs

and these are in the powder room.

Thanks to this special switch,

the pantry light will come on whenever I open the door.

We had to modify some ladders to make it tall enough for Chris to reach the light on the back deck.

Darcy made sure it was good and sturdy, while Chris got to climb. Good thing he's not afraid of heights!

The light looks a little small in the massive-ness of the roof, but it'll have to do. Those lights are expensive!

And while all this was going on, the girls happily played with the styrofoam from the light boxes and made a castle.

I finally got all that grout sealed. Then I cleaned out the laundry room, cleaned what I could in the bathrooms, vacuumed the sawdust off the top of the cupboards in the kitchen, vacuumed the sawdust out of the window sills, and was the official photographer of the day.