After(math)........

 

 

Well this Friday some family got together to help out the sister #4 and her hubby move the teachers things from her current now to be old place of employment to a resting spot(garage), before they make to her new classroom. She had quiet a few boxes and could use some assistance. After lending a hand the family which was present opted for a little grillen and chillin. Above is the host of the party relaxing around a toasty fire pit.

Here grandpa Anderson hangs out with Ella, or more like Ella hung on grandpas beard.

 

Just a pic of the gang relaxing.

 

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Poop chart.......

 

 

Malia has needed some motivation on achieving the completion of her potty training. She has her #1's down pat but her #2's needed a little work.

So momma mandy introduced(duced) the new and improved "Malia's PooPoo chart". Her reward being that after each #2 she would get a sticker and after accumulating 10 stickers she would be able to ride the bus. This is a desire of hers, so we decided we would take some local transportation (bus) and stop off at a ice cream shop and then ride it back.

 

As seen in the pic above this was a major success, heres were we stand or shall i say sit with the poopoo chart, daddy Dave suspects of a rationing of #2's in order to archive such an accumulation of stickers. Malia has pooped like she never has before. She doesn't even wear a diaper to bed at nap time anymore she holds her urges. This success makes momma Mandy and daddy Dave smile, looks like a bus trip is in the future works.

 

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Light it up......

 

While working on the rental I looked in the closet o find this light socket but I couldn't find a switch in which to cut it on with?

After closer inspection, or more by accedent I noticed this button mounted in door frame. Shurly not.........a door activated light? But this house was built way back in the day .....I mean way back. This is pretty tech stuff for this house.

Sure enough after installing a light bulb, light was to be had. when ever you opened the door the light automatically comes on .....nice.

 

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Rub a dub dub rubbing on that tub......

 

One of the last things to do on the rental is to clean and refinish the old cast iron tub. Here you can see the before pic with the cleaner of choice, and a securing pad.

 

Here's the tub after a scrub down it did get pretty clean but not clean enough. here it's taped off and ready to be refinished.

The refinishing kit I have read mixed reviews but well see what happens, you know how daddy Dave loves his spray paint.

Here's the finished product now I just have to wait for the cure time 72hrs-4days.

 

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Suds.....

 

Bath time at the Andersons residence.

 

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Spray painting.....

 

While working on the rental I try to watch unnecessary spending on supplies by reusing whats already there. Here's An example in the above pic you can see the old ceiling fan, not wanting to scrap a perfectly good dirty, nasty, sticky, cockroach infested fixture. I opted to use a little elbow grease.

 

 

And here we have the newly cleaned and spray painted ceiling fan. When the future tents stop by during a recent visit the said "nice you put in a new fan". This process had to de done too three more dirty fans they all turned out just as well, and saved me some green backs in the process.

 

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Drab.....to....fab...

 

 

Drab.....

 

Fab....this is one of momma Mandy's doings but it is pretty nice, both dogs eat from the bowls with no issues.

 

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Party pics.........

 

Here's just a couple pics of Malias party, here the birthday girl is relaxing.

Hers her birthday cake decorated with shaun the sheep characters, done up every nicely by her uncle Nate and aunt holly.

One of Malias gifts was an old doll house in which her mother used to play with. It is complete with small furniture, and all.

She was super excited, she seemed as if she wanted to climb inside. A blast was had by all and to all who had was a blast.

 

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Floored........

 

Well I've been trying to get this rental project finished up, this involves some long hours and late nights but its coming along nicely. Next thing on the list of things to do was the floors, they previously had carpet so some clean up was need before painting them. Why paint? You may ask these are some nice hardwoods worth restoring but with the property becoming a rental it's highly unlikely they will take care of them. So to cut the cost of restoring and re restoring after the renters leave ill just clean and paint. This will help protect the floors so if in the future I want too restore them I can.

 

Here's the floors free of staples, nails, gunk, debris, and dirt. With a quick sanding(pole sander) and walk through(bare foot?) this took most of the day preping the floors.

Yeah ......I said bare foot.........why would you walk on those nasty floors bare foot? Well I've walked in nastier stuff barefoot, but that's not the point. Daddy Dave has super sensitive feet ........so sensitive he can tell you the date on a dime when it's under 3 pillows ,a mattress, and a sheet of plywood. Well ill just say when you walk around bare foot on bare wooden floors you can feel any nit and grit so I would pay special attention to these areas.

 

Here is the finished project after some thick, gloss, oil based paint and the inhaling of a lot of fumes. These floors make you wanna put on a pair of socks and slide, Tom Cruise style(in your undies).

 

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Too late......

 

How do you know it's too late?............when every time you go to take a shower you first have to pick up toys out of the shower.......yep there's no going back now. Can't even trade them girls in, but I love em anyway.

 

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O niño .......

 

We have a house guest here at the anderson homestead, niño is keeping us company. Here Barkley and niño are catching a quick nap after their daily activities tuckered them out. You can see niño retreated to the comfort and familiarity of his crate.

And yet another pic of niño relaxing on Malia, don't be fooled this is not a lazy dog he's just needs a little shut eye in between the chaos. He's being a good boy and barkly enjoys his company wether or not he shows it or not.

 

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Party prep........

 

While deciding on what to get Malia for her birthday, daddy Dave stumbled across this wooden kitchen set, it did need a little clean up before it was gift ready.

The only time to work on such a project is in the late evening as the girls are tucked snug in bed, but a Couple things were needed to make this work. First..... heat which was supplied with a propane tank.

Second... some bright paint.....

 

Some hot coffee.....

 

With the appliance set taped and disabled, it was time for paint.

After a second coat and a couple minor fixes here we have the finished product. Malia ready and kid approved, it was a hit among the younger party attendees.

 

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Chuck-e-cheese......please....

 

On the actual day of Malias birthday we decided to take her out to dinner, figuring that she wouldn't care too much for the ole Olive Garden (to momma mandys disappointment), we decided to take her to a kid friendly establishment. What more kid friendly place than chuck-e-cheese. Above is a pic upon arrival, she seems to be astonished with all the action going on around her, where do I begin?

The evening was full of games, food and fun, in no time she was throwing some balls at the dragon.

A pic of the dragon...

Some horse back riding.....with her grandpa.

 

And crawling around in the hanging maze....aunt holly had to chase her for a bit to get her down for pizza.

Malia loved Mr chuck-e, he even brought her out a birthday cake. Her grandparents spoiled her to say the least, she had a Blast.

 

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