Progress

Neosporin is my new friend, well it's always been good to me, but now I really like it. The nail hole in my hand is totally healed. I doused myself with neosporin regularly and kept that sucker bandaged up and it's already pretty much gone. Which is impressive since the hole was more of a tear than a clean hole, yeah, it was pretty ugly.

For the record, it's really not so much fun breaking up concrete. The plumber's came in and cut some outlines for the pipes that will run between the tub, vanity, shower and toilet. It was my job to break up all the concrete in that general area, while Michelle filled buckets and hauled it out to the backyard. "simple" I thought, but pure back breaking stuff for sure. At one point, I was pounding away and Michelle broke into singing "Workin on a chain.... gaaaaaang". Well it was pretty funny at the time.

The window holes for the bedroom windows were all framed-in the other day and the placement is exactly what we were hoping for. We will have 3 awning type windows here for some good airflow, light and still keep our privacy. From "head on pillow" level, all you see is trees, so it's fabulous.

We also got the framing done for the french doors and big window in the bathroom. And by "we" of course I mean Ric and the crew. I'd love to help during the day, but I'm stuck creating new PowerBars in order to help pay for this madness. So I work all day, then come home and slave for a couple more hours of hard labor. Meanwhile Michelle is here with the guys all day, hauling debris to the dumpster and maintaining the peace in the rest of the house, then she runs off to sling booze for the local yokels all night. Both of us are working like maniacs to see this through.
The big hole to the left will be where the french doors go, the hole to the right will be the big huge tub window (it won't be see through, but will allow in tons of light). Sure the french doors will allow some visuals into the bathroom, but our backyard is pretty private, so it should work out nicely. The floor plumbing rough-in looks to be almost done. Next up is building the tub-surround, which we are still working out the kinks on. The fun part is going to be installing the tub... it's a whopping 450 lbs.... oiy.