Who has two thumbs and sucks at updating blogs? This lady.

Hey all,

There have been many happenings since my last post. First of all, we made some definite headway on the kitchen floor.

Here you can see all three layers. The Laminate in the back, the underlay in the middle, and in the front is the tar-covered hardwood.

We both felt very proud of our work:

We had to remove some cabinets and the fridge to get the rest up. You can see where we tried to sand off the tar with our new Oscillating sander. All it did was gunk up the pads.

Kevin looked up how to remove tar. He found that if you use a mixture of boiling vinegar and water, the tar comes up after two applications and some scraping with a putty knife. The mixture is 1/4 vinegar and 3/4 water.

On the edges of the floor, you can put down newspaper to keep the water from pooling. Genius!

The final result was awesome!!! There are a few tough spots to get the tar off. These are places that the underlay boards came together.

We found a few holes in the floor. Obviously there was an old stove at one time in our kitchen. We will plug these with wooden plugs and fill in all nail holes with wood filler.

Also, since the last post, we attended two Thanksgivings with new NEPHEWS!! Here is my family's:

 Liam and Charles:

Aunt Kathy brought her binder of family history. Pretty cool.

My brother Mike has great taste in neckwear. My parent's border collie Indy is the sweetest.

 Grandpa White and Liam.....grandpa still sounds weird to say.

Then, it was off to the Lowe's! Check out the spread on their monster-sized table:

Kevin and his sister Andrea being weird as always...

Baby Graham!!!

So that's it...I'm officially caught up on posting. We have a Christmas Party at our house Dec. 28th, so we have a goal to get the music room and the kitchen finished by then. I keep going back and forth on colors. More on that later.






~Jessica