Its been a long week...

It’s been a long week….  Just the start of many of them I think.  We are in the midst of a major remodeling job…  On our agenda is redoing the living room, dining room, kitchen, 2 bathrooms, back porch, building 2 decks on the back of the house and putting in a new 6 foot tall privacy fence around our 1 acre….   The insulation is up in the living room, next for that room is wallboard and plaster.  Of course we re-did the ceiling too so that also has to be covered.  Since the weather is so warm we decided to move out projects outside and get started on one of the decks.  So the hot tub deck has begun.  Thursday my husband and Alex (my son) started digging the holes for the posts.  Now these aren’t just any holes, they have to be 42” deep and the zoning people will be out to check the depth.  Then they wont come out again til the deck is totally built.  I think that is just so if you did make a mistake they can happily tell you to tear the whole thing down again and fix it….  Anyway, back to the postholes…   We rented a 12” gas powered auger that takes 2 men to run.  It was a monster!  By the time they got deep enough to come close to the 42” they couldn’t even pull the auger back out of the ground.  So it went back and my brother is gonna have someone come over Sunday morning with a tractor driven auger and finish deepening the holes.  They are all about 2/3 dug now.  Today all the wood gets delivered, so next Wednesday when hubby has another day off he can get started on the building of the deck…   Other news….   We finally got our new bed delivered.  We decided we had slept on that old bed long enough so went out looking for a bed to replace it.  Sounds pretty easy huh?   Well it isn’t….    If you haven’t been out lately looking at beds you have no idea how many different types there are.  We finally decided on a Comfort Select bed, which is better known as the “sleep number” bed.  After upgrading to a king size and getting a nice plush top for the bed we were ready to order.  This is where it gets painful….   The cost is awful, but we decided the warranty on the bed is 20 yrs….   And if we can sleep better it will be well worth it.  Since I hurt my back so many times I have a very hard time sleeping anyway, a lot of tossing and turning and pain…   I have to say though, in the last 2 nights since the bed was delivered I have woken up without a backache.  Of course it hurts within a few hours after getting up, but at least it isn’t hurting thru the night.  Hubby is still having pain in his hip, but we think he just needs to adjust the bed on his side so it is a little softer.    I guess we will figure that out….   Hmmmm…  other than that there isn’t much going on.  Alex went to Adventureland with his brother and sister in law for the weekend.  Sara and I are going to clean house…   Fun, Fun (     Thanks for checking in…….