way behind

I'm way behind on pics these days so over the next couple you're going to be bombarded with photo posts.

brynna and her bud rachel are bag ladies

parades are loud

First night in the new house

If you happen to be the Edgecomb code enforcement officer, you can totally ignore this post. We definitely are NOT living in the house.

B in her new, pinker than pink room. She seems happy.

Our first dinner in the new house. Of course, it was at Brynna's table while in our bedroom but it still counts.

First bedtime story with mommy. I'm not sure if Marcy realized what she was wearing and that I'd most definitely be blogging it.

In the camper

Life in the camper can be interesting, especially when it has rained for something like 482 straight days. Being cooped up like that can lead to some pretty interesting things. Like:

seeing if mommy's chin tastes like a lollipop.

apparently not

???

hey ma, nice cans!

In this month's issue of Maine Home and Design

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lights out

lil update. uncle lancy-pants got most of the house electrified over the weekend so now we have lights AND stripey walls.

we also knocked off most of the second floor painting and trim over the weekend. good thing too since we have to move into the second floor this coming weekend. bathroom? we don't need no stinking bathroom!

papa, what's that between your legs?

marcy cutting in. brynna's room now looks like the inside of a pepto-bismol-aholic's stomach.

washer AND dryer are up and running. yippee!

doors and trim

Another quick update. Over the weekend (while we wait for the drywall to be finshed!!!) we installed a bunch of the interior doors and some more of the exterior trim. Pretty exciting huh?


Papa Don modeling the latest fashion in flat panel doors.

Papa and Grampy working on exterior trim. This was Saturday when there was sun, they also did this on Sunday in the rain. Thankfully, I was on saw duty, doing the precision cutting (seriously, why would you think that is funny. wankers) so I got to stay in the nice, dry interior rocking out to some tunes.

quick lil house updated

Well, it's finally happened, the drywall has begun!

Master bedroom:

Living room:

Guest room/kinda possible future child's if we decide to have one once people stop asking us room:

Brynna's room:

Tis the Season

to get the spud out on her big girls bike. Usually B opts to ride her trike around (doing suprisingly fast laps around the basement last night) but sometimes she decides to roll with the big boyz. So on Sunday, after getting the request, we headed out to the pavement and gave 'er a rip.

she can ride totally on her own but likes my hand on her back.

stopping to find "round things"

found one.

we have a new camera

and apparently I don't know how to use it yet...

ghosty

hazy

look out!

going for a hike

On Monday, the fam headed up to beautiful, sunny Winslow to check out Uncle Darren's potential new property, 28(?) acres on Patte's Pond. It was a sweet spot and totally calling for miles of singletrack to be built. Good thing Darren is so devoted to cycling. Err, maybe not.

B in her LLBean approved hiking attire.

Marcy and B looking at ferns and spiders (big dead trees)

the ass end of said spider

B and uncle darren (note, that is a bug catcher I'm holding, not a giant glass of beer sadly)

too tired to blog

entry roof

In my constant quest to not have anything be straight and easy on the house, I decided that we should have a sloped and angled entry roof. Good thinking, until it took a total of about 6 man days to complete. Woopsie. Maybe that is why the guys in the field always LOVE working on my jobs. Nothing worth doing is easy. Or is it, nothing easy is worth doing (I can think of a couple of arguments here! :) ).

rafters going up

and up

and up

hmmm, how we gonna cut this now???

tah dah!

Smelting

Friday evening I needed to set a smelt net to fish the overnight incoming tide. Earlier in the day I had picked up a little bug catcher/nature observing kit for Brynna. It was a gorgeous day so I decided to pick B up from preschool and take her with me. What a blast! She loved hiking along the bank of the brook looking for bugs and frogs and anything else she could find. What would have been a 15 minute set turned into an hour and a half exploring expedition. B didn't even notice that we blew through dinner time AND bedtime.

The net all ready to fish. I love this brook. It is a beautiful, quiet (except for the rushing water) spot.

She wanted to show Daddy how much fun she was having.

Mommy and B and the nest she built out of leaves, rocks, acorns, etc.

A little time for exploring nature...

A slug AND a smelt!

Checking out the smelt's mouth (no worries it was already dead when we found it). B is very observant - she had to count the fins and look the fish all over.

Putting him in the carrier (yep it was a male).

One of B's favorite finds - a HUGE blood sucker. I had to keep reminding her to not touch it (I had not salt on hand).

More exploring pics...

"I want to see him jump."

Letting the frog go in a nice quiet pool

Chillin'

"Building a nest"

Insulation has begun!

message received

Mimi Jo will never make the mistake that mistake again! (you have to enlarge the first photo)

It's been a while

It's been about a brazillion years since I've done a proper post over here and I apologize (or for some of you , you're welcome) but with everything going on I've had a hard time finding inspiration for a quality post and when I lack the ability for a good post I usually go the other way and just post pictures. Photo-blogging it in, if you will. Well, today really isn't any different, I've got crap to say but I'm freakin way overdue on a bunch of these photos. Speaking of crap, if I had a poo story to tell you about I'd be all over it. I can talk about poo all day. I've got hundreds of stories about poo in fact. I'm sort of the Bubba Blue of poo stories. Not poo recipes thankfully but now that I think of it, I do have a somewhat recent poo story to tell but I've already uploaded some adorable pics of B so, sadly, the poo will have to wait.

They're not poo but they'll do.