The Stairs... Finally

so, I have a lot to catch up on, but first the long promised evolution of the stairs.

The opening to the right at the bottom of the stairs was a bit of a door for us for a while, I painted the walls, and Jason installed the lighting to the left.
as you can see there is no carpeting, but what a nice job Jason did with the drywall, texture and lights! and i like the color too... all me!
Yay! carpeting! To the right you can see Jason has done the trim, and it all looks great!
FINISHED! finally after way too much time! He does such nice work.
here is a closer look at the banister and railing that Jason hand crafted. He is pretty pleased with the way it turned out.

Three weeks ago We were hit with a lot of rain. so much in fact that our sump pump could not keep up with all of the water, even after putting a second pump in the basin, it still could not keep up. yes we got water in the basement, yes it flooded over 3/4 of the newly finished basement and the carpeting, no insurance does not cover it. we spent the next two weeks shop vacuuming, fans running, pellet stove running, space heaters running, air conditioner running, and dehumidifiers running to get as much taken care of as humanly possible. I think it turned out okay, and i would rather pay the 260$ electric bill we had than to replace 1400 square feet of carpeting and padding! This is just 3 weeks of the past two months I have not blogged. so much more to tell! but right now I have to go outside to pick rock.

oh yea, we had an excavator come out and pull the top soil off of the field and dump it in problematic areas in the yard as well as the area we wanted to expand to. well he pulled off 25 dump truck loads and spread it all around leaving the big rocks behind of course. before we could seed it we have to drag it, pick the rock, seed, then roller it. but this happened before the flooding, so now we have to mow the weeds in the area we picked the rock before seeding it. we are almost done with the entire yard, picking rock that is. only about 1/2 acre left. and this is my job at the moment as Jason is working 50-60 hrs per week with a local heating and cooling place and i am the one with no job. (whoopee :p) Well, TTFN, more to come