Grandma reading Cole's favorite book
"Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?"
We spent close to 10 days visiting Jeb & Lisa and our grandkids Olivia & Cole on the way home from the Smokey Mountains. We had a great time and our daughter Jenni was able to come over from Chicago to spend a couple of days with us as well. Jeb was in the middle of remodeling their 3 bathrooms and pantry. So in addition to spending time enjoying the grandchildren we were able to help out with the projects. Jeb was installing new travertine tile on the floors and around the garden tub. In the half bath downstairs he removed the pedestal sink and installed a new vanity, top and faucet along with a new mirror and light fixture. Upstairs in the master we removed the double vanity and toilet to install tile on the whole floor space. Jeb designed a special pattern for the center of floor.(see pics) We had to do some rewiring to accomodate two light fixtures where there had been one. Joyce did a lot of the painting, something she had done a lot of on our NOMADS projects this winter. Things are coming along quite well. Jeb may take a short break before starting the remaining bath.
Master bath
The medallion Jeb designed for the Master Bath
The first floor powder room
Sunday morning we headed home to the UP. Of course there was more than a foot of snow still in our driveway when we arrived home. We took the trailer down the road to the boat launch and left it there while we removed the snow. We were amazed that all the time we were gone we had never lost power. We put on snowshoes today and headed through the woods today and were amazed that we did not see any trees that had blown down. Lots of cold and snow this winter but the winds must have been reasonable. This morning we took a nice 4 mile RT hike down to the bay and back. It's mid April and the bay is still iced in other than the shipping channel that the ice breakers keep open for the freighter traffic. Last year it was all open water before now.
All in all it's nice to be home.
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