It's official!

The Double Diamond Ranch officially has internet access for the first time ever! :)

That's right, I'm posting this from the "comfort" of my bed (currently located in the living room..we'll see where we end up sleeping tomorrow. You never know around here) at the ranch. We're all moved out of the apartment (our lease ended today), so we're living here now...even though there is still a lot of work to do before the renovations are complete. It's a huge mess trying to find things in boxes from moving and figuring out where to sleep/eat/etc. We're also Rigby-less right now (he's living with M/D) since we can't have him walking on freshly varnished floors...

Well, here's a little photo update of the happenings from the past week or 2. We have a lot done, but we still have a lot more to go!

New appliances have arrived!


First coat of floor stain goes on in the bedrooms..
And the 2nd coat... (several days later, but she's wearing the same outfit!!)

Dad tries to take a picture of the 2nd coat through the outside window..hm..
Varnishing is a serious business. All 3 bedrooms now have both coats of varnish on them - thanks to Storm Trooper mom.

Bathroom vanity and cabinets are installed


D. cuts the counter for the bathroom
Sink and counter are in!
D puts in the tub surround so we can have a fully functioning bathroom


Preparing the paneling walls to be plastered. Look how much brighter the room is with white walls!

Putting up the Venetian Plaster. It's blue. Luckily, Mike has a friend who used to do plastering stuff for a job, so she was a big help.
Everyone (but me) got to do some plastering. I was at work and missed all the fun....

As the plaster dried, it looked like clouds! It doesn't look like that anymore though :)
DONE with plaster--the pictures don't really do it justice though. The texture looks great in person!
Since the last pictures....I put the first coat of paint on in the kitchen and began spackling nail holes in the trim/baseboard so they can be painted. Dad started hanging our new doors today - those still need to be painted as well. Mike and I both just got done taking showers in the new bathroom! It worked well, but the motion sensor light didn't think I moved enough while showering, so the lights went out twice while I was in there and I had to flail my arms to get it to turn back on. I'll remember next time to turn the motion switch to "on" mode instead of "auto" mode when I enter the bathroom!

Well, until next time....and hopefully I can find the camera batteries so I can take more pictures...they got packed somewhere and are now lost in the moving/renovating fray...