By The Thunderin'

Last night we had a sweet reprieve from the heat. I woke this morning around 5 a.m. to hear that the skies had opened up and sent a deluge, with thunder and lighting. It was raining very heavily. I had a look out the window and discovered that ground was giving off steam. It was needed as I watched the grass drying up and turning white over the last week as it died. This will help to replenish the green at least a little.

Not only was there rain outside but there were showers inside too. Daughter #2 was the first to get a shower in our newly hooked up ensuite shower. I was so pleased when Hubby finished everything on the upstairs shower this morning. It means that we don't have to drive to town to cool down.... no more school showers.... woo hoo!

The toilets have to be worked on today. E/P is away for the weekend and God bless him, because he did show up yesterday to help install the drains for the showers and toilets, even though he was hurting. Hubby has to hook up the water for the two new toilets today and hopefully that will mean that we can use the loo upstairs. Next week will require a new door in the downstairs bathroom as well as a new wall.... then in go the vanities both upstairs and down. A little work on the downstairs electrical to accommodate new switches and new lighting and we are done..... well sort of. That's when my work begins.... I have to paint the downstairs walls which will be an off white with a hint of peach with brown cabinets and mirror frame and trim. The towels that I just bought the other day are brown too. All of our old towels will go upstairs and they are blue. So the upstairs bathroom will probably be blue too. I can't believe that I am thinking in terms of colours for bathrooms. It is quite exciting to get that far. While I am painting the bathroom and putting on the finishing touches Hubby will go back to work in the sunroom/office/studio and start putting up the wall board. Then there is the upstairs to finish which will require stain on the floor and walls of the girls rooms and then we have to start on our room..... this, I expect will take us well into the fall. Hubby has to get the new roofing on the electrical shed and I have to paint the North deck not to mention stain the sunroom and organize furniture. Some of this can be done in the fall and will have to be done when we can. The flooring and kitchen counters will have to wait till just before Christmas I expect. So lots of work yet!

There is one last thing to let you know. My eye is definitely on the mend. The distance vision is still not great but it is coming a little bit better every day. The redness is almost gone and it no longer gunks up at night. I have an appointment tomorrow to follow up and see that there is no permanent damage. So all is well....
I'm off to have a shower.... or two.... and get really really clean.