We started September 2022 with Gary’s birthday and celebrated by going to the Zach Brown concert at the Minnesota State Fair and then our niece’s beautiful wedding the following weekend after which I left for Memphis on a long ago planned trip with the girls. Went all that way to smoke candy cigarettes.
Concrete unfinished floor
Once I recovered from the trip we started the acid stain on the floor in the house. I had studied this process, watched lots of videos and called the customer service line so much we were on a first name basis. Since this was my idea and it is a brand new house I had a lot of pressure to do this right. After working on the floors for a week we finally finished. It was ALOT of work especially since I had my fingers crossed the whole time. 
Our next project was insulating the attic. Ted came up to help and this process involves renting a blower with a long hose. Gary was up in the attic while Ted and I blew the insulation up to him. This is a huge messy job. While you have to wear a face mask it is impossible to cover your eyes too cause of fogging. So after blowing 175 bags, we had insulation dust thru out the house, in our eyes, hair, skin and clothes, and some even made it into the attic!
Kitchen cabinets came up next. Little did we know when we ordered the cabinets they came in pieces. Lots of pieces. Neither of us are jigsaw puzzle people but that would have been helpful. It took a week to do the cabinets and countertops. Let’s just say several new curse word combinations were invented that week. 
I still had my trips to the laundromat while this was all going on so Dede and I headed out with a car load of dirty disgusting laundry when a deer decided it was his day to die as he dived in front of the SUV. As I slammed on the brakes all the dirty laundry flew to the front of the car and buried poor Dede. And what did Dede do? Absolutely nothing. Anyway the deer limped off, I pushed the laundry off Dede and headed to the bar, I mean laundromat.
And because we don’t have enough to do we picked up our new mini doxie puppy Woody at the end of October. I forgot how much time and effort is involved with a new puppy. But why not? 
So we’re in our house and grateful for running water, a kitchen counter bigger than 6 inches, no more paper plates, at home hot showers, an oven and most of all a flush toilet. Living in a shed for 391 does that to a person.
