Paul on a bike, except when I'm working on the new house...

The seasonal rides came by, I would have tried one out if they had something scary...  This carny thing shows up in what I think used to be a Kmart, now it's a few stores, including the Aldi and the Harbor Freight Crap.  That little grey thing under the spider, is a normal sized Grasshopper, yes the Spiders here are YUGE!  This is a second spider, almost as big, he just killed another grasshopper today. As you can see he saw me going around his web so he moved, fast little bugger.  I discovered a third one of these yellow an black spiders on the back side of the playhouse.

 This is the Brownwood Coliseum,where today they had a business expo, I showed up for the free pens.  Around here Moses parts just about whatever you need it too....  Inside of the coliseum, it's a good size for a basketball game.  Outside the coliseum, streets used to have those bricks on them, city saved them and now re-uses them in sidewalk projects.  This is the back of the old Weatley-Watson, evidently if you wanted a carriage, it would come out of those doors up there on the second floor.  I think the 'eyes' are going to be for Teddy's, a play on Roosevelt, to help promote that the building will be a brewhaus, and the closest place I could go out for a burger.  Across the street is one of the four or five places that has an elevator, and is probably the tallest thing around.  Inside Teddy's is this indian statue. I also saw them installing the 'Yuge' vats to make their beer.  Old hardware etc store, nice wood floors.  Besides

Got a bed, now the awesome 65" tv, refrigerator is coming on saturday, it's like having an actual house, unlike 'paint huffer dude' across the way, I even have this stuff call running water, hot an cold... Soon to be even colder, and I'm one of those few people who knows how to use 'ice trays', never understood the magical appeal of an icemaker in the freezer that just takes up more room than necessary, and way more room than an ice tray.  As you can see, the 'Yuge' tv is in place, an it plays Nature Films really really well. Clock might be a bit off. This is the DVD cabinet, I added the wheels so I can get it out of the way easy, and get to the tv.

Bedframe arrived yesterday, and didn't take too long to assemble, mattress is going to probably take a day to fully re-inflate. Curtains gently wafting curtains Doctor....are up in the 7.5' doorway, most of the time I'll leave them wide open, but when it's hot I can keep the cool in the bedroom, and when it's cold outside, won't have to heat the whole house.  You can see I put it up on feet, I had to make one for the center post, for some reason the people who make the feet don't realize that the bed comes with FIVE legs, not four, thankfully it was just a 4x4 to which I took two pieces of 2x4 an glued them together.  Curtains from the inside. Got to put the clown back up, but this is from outside the room. And hopefully the tv stand will get here tonight, and I can assemble that, an get a tv, to watch er, 'nature films', like the Discovery Channel only better.

Installing flooring in your underwear is probably not how Tommy Silva does it, or Norm, now that you have that frightening image in your head, here's the pretty. It took about an hour to get that first row straight, then sweated through several hours on the 4th to install seven rows, then a couple more today, as well as the underlayment. Here's that first row, installed a cleat in the doorway to the bedroom, to which I will install a 'spline' so that from the doorway I will go the other way with the flooring. Here's thursday night, tired. And here is today, with more underlayment, and a couple of rows, resting up for the weekend.

It's so amazing to see stuff be DONE, and the plumbing has been a long road, only one more thing to get done which is get the city to connect the new system and I'll have WATER....  Curtain rod for all the way around the tub, as the ones you can buy just aren't big enough, goal is to keep the curtain from sticking to the occupant of the shower, I guess those responsible for making curtain rods don't want to think, too bad, Mine is perfect. Ran the 1/2" PEX through that piece of copper pipe up into the ceiling, then a 45 bracket for the PEX in the attic, to a brass pipe which is now held in place by two copper straps, and connected to that rain showerhead, yippie.

With the threat of rain an thunderstorms(oh yeah use electric tools outside when there's lightening), I was still able to get stuff done on the skirt for the house and use the cut off cement board to install four tiles at the threshold for the back door. Also, was able to sweat some copper pipe to make my own shower curtain rod, the perfect size for the tub, or well just outside of the tub. I just couldn't find any good round curtain rods for a clawfoot tub that looked like they would not only work, but didn't cost over $200.  Here's without a flash, and it doesn't look to dark, I finished the right side skirt, still need to do the back, and I'll get around to the front one of these days.  I hadn't gotten it partially installed in the ceiling yet, but here it is, yes I still need to clean the tub.  Same time as the top pic but the flash didn't make it come out very well.  Here's the tile, just four of them, but if I step into the house

Sent back the shower set from amazon, their search feature just does not understand the concept of a claw foot tub, and that the holes are not even 5 inches apart. So bought a new faucet, that I will plumb a shower into it.  Here's the tube a few minutes after I heated it and then it slide like a hot knife through butter, just need some clamps to keep it tight, as with hot water it might weaken.  Also still need to clean the tub before I complete the faucet install.  It's not the Iron Throne, but it will do. The hot water tank, timer, and that expansion tank. Woot!

I was thinking of using flashing on the peak since I knew it wouldn't line up, but cutting the five inch boards down to fit turned out just fine. It kind of reminds me of the underside of a ship when it's high an dry in the shipyard.  Manly Wood!  More Manly Wood!