New Floor

Here's the new floor. Jimmy ordered a sample box, so that we could see how it looks with the furniture and the kitchen cabinets. The pallet - full of flooring is in El Paso, JJ, will be picking it up for us and bringing it here.

First snow of 2012!

It's not enough to ski, yet.....it's still 60 degrees in town....!
but we got our first dusting of snow!

Glass doors!

Well, my 15 foot glass doors are in.....
they are so cool! on a track, they bifold totally open, so I can walk from the kitchen.....straight outside, to the balcony....too neat!

Foam Insulating the deck!

 Well....after the races, we hotfooted it back to New Mexico, because they were supposed to deliver the flooring, and they were going to be pouring the concrete on the balcony. I wanted to be there, to make sure they got the colors right. Since there was so much activity at the house, Jimmy decided that they would go down the hill and spray foam insulate the deck. What a mess! but, it really soundproofed and sealed it up....no cold wind....Jay even craweled under the floor and sealed it!

Beautiful weather

Saturday was the Nationwide series race and the fly over was really impressive....
there were 15 planes, all had smoke trails of red, white and blue!
Sunday's fly over was a B-52...what a gas!Big.ol' lumbering plane flying slow, over the track! 

Truck Race night!

Met with "family" Chris and Chandra Vanderkolk.....Chandra (Chris' daughter) is married to the crew chief for #13, Johnny Sauter and got a tour of the hauler for Thorsports (the team owner) and a visit to the pits! Jimmy and I had gone to eat at Babe's (best fried chicken in the world!) and brought the crew, etc . several chicken dinners the night before, during practice.......guess what?
WINNER,WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER! #13 won the race on Friday night!!
such fun! Great to see the baby girl I babysat in the 70's! and Chris is a "sorta" big brother.

Texas Motor Speedway Fall 2012

Eddie Gossage, the manager of the track, really outdid himself, this year, and had an entire "Wild Asphalt Circus". He had a carnival set up, right next to the track and various acts around the track. Even the motorcycle that goes around in a cage!

Barrel ceiling

I saw a neat ceiling in a picture, so I decided that we needed it!
Jimmy was sawing the curved pieces and Jay and Donald were putting all the blocking up, Lucille and I watched!
It is basically a barrel ceiling, but has 4 big beams running through it towards the kitchen area.The ceiling drops from 12 to 11 to 10 feet in the kitchen, so it appears that the beams disappear into the ceiling. Pretty cool!

Foaming the bus garage

Brandon, the Tech, showing some hints!

 

Getting ready....

Had to cover all the windows and put on the suits and masks, to keep from breathing the foam! If anyone ever saw the movie "Sleeper" with Woody Allen......there is a scene where a bunch of guys, dressed in white were supposed to be "sperm" getting ready to exit......
really reminded me of that! haha!!

Demilec Spray Foam Insulation trailer arrives!

 

Radiant floor heat on the balcony.

Jimmy and Donald tied all the tubing for the balcony to get the concrete poured....next is the spray foam insulation, this week....Demilec is sending a tech to help us get started with the process.

The Aspens are starting to change!

 

Rainbow!

While cutting and burning the diseased trees, yesterday....A beautiful rainbow appeared....it was only there for about 15 minutes....

The Burn Pile

 

Jimmy's tree removal service.....

Entrance!

Today, they poured, stained and stamped the front porch and walkway......its so pretty! 

Pinetop carshow and fly-in 2012

Today was another day in paradise....beautiful day, in the 70s, so we got the '69 Olds out of the neighbor's garage and drove to the Sierra Blanca airport for the "planes, trains and automobiles" show!
It was a very enjoyable day, saw several people from out of town, even El Paso!

Wrapping the house

Finally! The house is being wrapped and meshed getting ready for the stucco!

Weeds!

I have no idea what these are, except pretty weeds, but I asked Jimmy to take a picture!

Exhausted Rufous hummingbird

 

Now that the windows are in....a poor little hummingbird got in and couldn't figure out how to get out of the house. He kept flying back and forth in the window...he was so exhausted that Jimmy caught him.....he rested a little then after about 10 seconds, flew away!

Fireplaces and windows!

I got my fireplaces in, upstairs and down....now, my windows have arrived!
It's getting close to being dried in!