Making a Home for Pebbles

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Location: On the street, Wofford Heights, CA. and behind the house, Mountain Mesa, CA

Friday morning Barney and Betty took off for greener pastures, with a quick stop in Mesa, AZ.

New kitchen lighting

old kitchen lighting

Wow look at that laundry closet color!

garage staging area

The crew went back to work on the house on the other side of the lake with word that it should be finalized Tuesday. So we can’t demolish much yet, but got all prep work and most of the painting done by the end of the weekend. They had an extra helper Saturday and Sunday and ran the airless sprayer. Results were mixed, so we had some touch up to do. As of Tuesday pm almost all of that is complete. Several new lighting fixtures are in place, switch plates and solar tube covers have been reinstalled, and it is starting to look good.
Pebbles and Wilma went to Bakersfield Monday to look for curtain fabric, more lighting fixtures, etc. That also had mixed results, but got enough to keep us going for a while. The overhanging boulders are not a problem in the car, but the turns are still very tight.

Barney taking down lighting

Weather had been tolerable until the weekend, and has really heated up. Unofficially we saw 102 in Bakersfield, but there was a cooling wind on Tuesday.

Supervising

What's going on here?

Painting accent wall

At 1:40 pm Tuesday, May 14, Pebbles got the go ahead on the house. We don’t think they could possibly have found anything else to cause a delay, even though it did seem like they were trying to. We are thankful for the go ahead and now demo will begin. The carpet and padding come up fairly easily, but the tack strips are going to be a real bear.

rolling out to cover overspray

The coach has been brought over so Pebbles can stay on the property before furniture is moved. Appliances will be delivered on Thursday. We hope at least the kitchen floor will be in by then. Nothing goes as fast as you hope.
We will again have an extra helper for the weekend and hope the rest of the floor can be completed so move in could happen before we get out of here early next week.