Grandpa still has it!

Imogen can walk on Grandpa's feet just like her mom used to at that age. In fact she is wearing the same dress that her mom wore about 30 years ago. In the next picture she is showing how cute she looks in Grandpa's glasses.

Holidays

The new double-pained window is installed on Dec. 22 and the inside frame is put in place.












Imogen likes to imitate anything that adults do. Here she is helping to clean off her mom's car Dec. 23.









Here John is finishing up the insulation which is R12 doubled. The next step is to put on the 6 mil poly and then plaster board.












We had 13 people at out Christmas turkey dinner and it was great. Samuel, Comfort, and their four girls Dekontee, Maria, Marsayn, JanJay Brewer plus Glory Itaketo and Jenn and John and Imogen Wallace.














We only had 10 at our Sunday dinner as Ohygen Roberts and Stacey and Isabella came over as well as Ruby Marshall and Jenn and John and Imogen. Andrew was not feeling well but at least was able to eat a bit of lunch.

Reno job at Jenn and John's basement

John and I tore out the old wall of 2 X 3 construction with inadequate insulation and a covering of wallboard. We are going to be installing a larger window, 2 X 4 wall with R 24 insulation and 6mil poly. Then we'll put up Gyproc and paint it.
Next we used a masonry blade on a circular saw and cut out the size of opening that we needed for the new window.

Of course we tried to keep the dust contained but as you can see on the couch, we weren't too successful.

We used an impact hammer, a hammer drill, a circular saw with masonry blades and with a diamond blade, and a sledge hammer. What I thought would be a one day job turned into three days.



Finally, I knocked out the last chunk Today about 4:00 pm. The hardest part is done!

Imogen's first sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa's

Imogen came over Saturday about 5:00 pm and stayed overnight. She went back to her mom partway through Sunday morning worship service. She finally thought her mom had suffered enough and held out her arms to her to take her back after about the third song! After service we had lunch together at Bonanza Restaurant.