Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
~Dexter Kozen

And sure enough - after 9 years of never having a visitor at our house on Halloween -and this being the first year we decided NOT to buy candy - we had 5 kids show up at 6:30pm!! Ugh!

Anyway, today we had two projects happening at the same time. With the drywall up in the kitchen, today we had someone here to tape, mud and sand the walls in the kitchen. No amount of cleaning up by contractors can compensate for the mess the house is in right now though, between the dust and dirt and "mud" from the drywall, and our packing up of the TV room so they can paint and do the hardwoods over the next two weeks, the house looks like a disaster area and we are both tired of living in it. It will be nice to get away to the Olympia condo for a week while they do the hardwoods. In this picture you can see the framing where the new window on the east side of the kitchen will be.

We also noticed that they 'tried' to patch the patch on the ceiling in the laundry room. As I mentioned in a previous blog posting, while the electricians were here one of them put their hand or knee through the ceiling in the laundry room. We had patched here a few years ago after moving a light slightly during our remodel of the laundry room. Well the new patch didn't take as it is hanging by a thread just above the light.

Outside, Travis worked on laying the concrete for the Air Conditioning pad on the north side of the house. It looks like it is all done and ready for the air-conditioning unit. Speaking of concrete - Gary took a picture of the garage slab - so it seems to be coming together quickly.