A long, long weekend

In addition to all our other blessings for which we are so grateful, waking up late on Friday and knowing it's still not Saturday yet was wonderful!  We enjoyed some laziness this extra long weekend, but we also got cracking downstairs.  After finishing the last bit of work to secure the stove pipe and chimney, we fired up the wood stove for the first (and second) time on Thanksgiving.  And without a minute to lose, we got started on the walls.  It sure looks pretty down there with the wood up. 

a little more work to do around the windows and along the ceiling is all....

(temporarily the guest room is the TV room)

Thomas spent a good part of Friday playing with the electrical system.  I should've taken a picture of it, too, but he made all the wires look nice and pretty.  I worked on some pantry shelf sliders while he was doing that, as well as cleaning up the garden window behind the sink and prepping it for tile.  The backer board is installed, so next up is tile! 

Plus there was plenty of TV / movie watching, sleeping in, birthday partying for David, and working on a puzzle of fall leaves...