Yep. My crappy indoor cycling instructor at LA Fitness has motivated me to do it. I figure I can’t do any worse. The bar is not set very high. I completed my CPR certification last week at GCC. Thanks, Stephanie. Great class. That was 2 and a half hours well spent blowing air and pumping …
Yep. Bed time. Now that the main living space has been renovated, it’s time to get the bedrooms together so we can have guests. The refinished wall bed is installed, a hand-me-down full bed with mattress set is set up, and the queen refinishing project is almost complete. The only thing missing was bedding and …
Quick Update: I’m not finished yet, but I’m getting close. This is a short clip of the before and almost finished after of the Happy Jack house renovation. Almost three months in, and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The biggest project left, you can see at the end of …
As I near the completion of the major renovation projects, it’s time to start thinking about adding a pop of color to the space. At the moment it looks like I merely replaced all the drab brown with dreary gray. The walls are various shades of gray paint, gray wood, grey tile, and the flooring …
I’m STILL doing renovations up at the cabin, but I’m close to being finish. Yay! It’s taking so long because my math skills are lacking, and I keep running out of things I need to finish. A few weeks ago it was ceiling tiles, then mortar for the fireplace tile. Last week it was the …
When I was nearing fifty three years ago, I had a minor panic attack. I was out of shape and a little over weight. I wasn’t obese by any means, but I weighed the most I’d ever weighed in my life and my knees felt like they belonged to a 70 year old woman. I …
Twenty years ago I signed up for a woodworking class through Rio Salado so that I could build a Murphy bed. I had just purchased a house in central Phoenix, and I just had to have a wall bed. However, I didn’t want to pay thousands of dollars to buy one, so I was going …
After I finished the ceiling tiles last week, I was very excited to get the ceilings painted. I figured this task wouldn’t be too bad considering I already own a paint sprayer that I’ve only used once over 4 years ago. Well, I should have known that merely thinking this would be an easy task …
When I started renovating the Happy Jack cabin, one of the first things I wanted to do was remove the outdated popcorn ceilings that are in every room. That plan was quickly changed to removing the popcorn in the main living spaces only. And then after a week of struggling to do even one room, …
Instead of hard labor up in Happy Jack this past weekend, we decided to just chill and enjoy the cool temps. No work for us although I hired a contractor to remove some tile in the kitchen. We had our first guests, and they had to camp out in their Tab trailer in the front …