Planning and organizing :)

So these past two weeks we have working on and clearing out the garage.

A lot of organizing and sorting - moving things to store in the basement or stuff 

we need up to the second floor.

Opening up all the wedding presents and the left over decoration was fun. 

But yeah we have a lot more sorting to do and have a lot of things to sell :) 

At this time however we have decided to just take things out of the garage and go through it later. 

The basement before....

  We bought some shelving...

 Wiki playing in the packaging...

 

 After a couple of hours...

 Our sorting station...

  The garage before...

 

After...

 We still got a little more work to do, but we are getting there...

 Now we just have to build that shed to hold all the lawn equipment :) 

as you can see it has taken over half of the garage...it is probably the next thing we are going to tackle...

 Some other things we have had to deal with...Wiki learned to go through the gate down the stairs into the back lawn. Which worries us cause nothing prevents him from just jumping over the fence.
So we tried to Wiki proof the deck.

With the left over aluminum mesh... yaaay finally got to use our staple gun :)

  It was a little mangled from using it as a sieve on the rocks in the front yard...

 And it was a success...for a little while at least...

 Haa haaa Wiki re-planning his escape...

But then he figured out the shortest jump to the ground and now he just jumps off of there :/

So now we got to go get more mesh and put it around the entire deck :/

For now Wiki gets no outside time!

We got him a fountain since the pump on his old drinking unit died, and he loves drinking flowing water.

This time we just got him this...we didn't like the actually pet water thingies they has for sale.

So that he can drink and relax indoors :) It seems to be working...

 We got some more lawn stuff...all the more reason to get that shed ASAP:)

 We got it so that we could water our dying grass. We also bought a different sprinkler - with a wider range found it to give better coverage. Look at it go...

 While we were out there we thought we would try and tackle the railing and 

see what it would take to get it off. Well turns out nothing is as easy as it seems. 

The screws used...some don't have a head anymore and others are way too rusted out. So we are going to have to saw it off. Oh well will have to tackle it some other time. 

  Happy web browsing everyone!

More exciting stuff to come :)

We are back!

Not from vacation....just been taking a break from home work. 

Things have been kinda slow ever since the 4th of July. 

We decided to make a quick trip to Iowa to visit family and friends.

Oh and wiki came with us, he was such a good kitty!

 We crossed the Missouri river...

 The largest truck stop in Iowa. We stopped there on our way back...

just cause we lived in Iowa (or drove back & forth) and managed never to stop there!

 The corn and soy fields were green and gorgeous!

 Wiki hanging out at Grant's parents...

 Awwww...we miss hanging out with our awesome friends...

the next time we see them it probably won't be in Ames :)

 Us :)

 

We had a independence day lunch on July 3rd at our friend's parent's farm house...

Here are our friends with their adorable "2" year old :)

Then we went to Grant's grandma's for July 4th... had some burgers & hotdogs 

and headed back...

 Some serious hunters...

 Checking out the largest truck stop in the world!

 Crossed three borders before finally getting home...

 Yaaay an awesome weekend and a good break from our to-do list :)

We have sooo much going on right now...

Spray painter arrived, stain arrived, picked paint colors for the 2nd level and the sander was ordered.

Been working on clearing out the garage so we have space to reface the doors.

Stay tuned will post more in a few days or so ;)