Ruff-N-Tumble

Lost/Found

I was browsing through my posts and found this scrapbook page that was saved as a draft but never posted. I guess this is better late than never. Easter was only a month ago, could be worse.

Maybe I should start my Christmas Cards now so I may have a shot at getting them out on time...

A journey of a thousand tiles: Part 4 (yes this could take a while)

Step 4: Let the tiling begin!

Here is a sneaky peaky...It matches Chino dirt beautifully. (Is that an oxymoron?)

To be continued, when I'm old and grey.

"A journey of a thousand tiles begins with 19,387,489,1347,917 trips to Home Depot. "

Jenn, The Chinobilly Mamma
Chinobilly philosopher (not to be confused with Lao-tzu~Chinese philosopher)

A journey of a thousand tiles: Part 3

Step 3: Remove A LOT of glue

This was the most time consuming step. Partly due to the beating Matt took in ripping up the wood with that crazy hammer gizmo. (His hands were numb for days)

My hands were numb from using a teeny tiny razor blade to scrape up all the glue. If you squint and look really hard at the lower right corner of the picture above you may see said teeny tiny razor. Ouch! I cringe looking at it! 

Then Matt brought this beauty home. (Yes, it takes us a few "go-rounds" before we figure things out)

 

This scraper and some magical chemicals made everything right with the world again.

Thank goodness that leg of the journey is behind us!

"A journey of a thousand tiles begins with a thousand and one nerve endings in your fingers dying a slow.painful.death."

Jenn, The Chinobilly Mamma
Chinobilly philosopher (not to be confused with Lao-tzu~Chinese philosopher)

A journey of a thousand tiles: Part 2

Step 2: Wood floor demolition

We thought these tools would be all we'd need.

It became quite obvious we were mistaken!

This photo was taken a few hours into our...a-hem.... adventure

My job was to remove all the pieces as Matt wore "his self plum out"

We borrowed my dad's crowbar...it was a bit easier.

The next weekend Matt borrowed this thing-a-magig from our brother-in-law, thanks Mark

That worked a little better.

Are we

done yet?

"A journey of a thousand tiles begins with a lot of demolition. "
Jenn, The Chinobilly Mamma
Chinobilly philosopher (not to be confused with Lao-tzu~Chinese philosopher)

A journey of a thousand tiles: Part 1

Step one: Remove awful carpet.

Our carpet was toast.

It was embarrassing.

It's gone! Out-a-here!

Let's do a happy dance!

They had no idea...

"A journey of a thousand tiles begins with a single cut. "

Jenn, The Chinobilly Mamma

Chinobilly philosopher (not to be confused with Lao-tzu~Chinese philosopher)

Mud

I've been spending quite a bit of time in the garden lately. The garden wannabe bug has bitten me again but more on that later. I just wanted to show you what can happen when you allow two little girls to water your garden for you. All of this occurred in less than ten minutes even! They claim the earthworms "need'n a dwink"...mamma thinks they just wanted to make sure they got another bath!