Troseph

Ingredients:

• 3-4 Handfuls of your choice of peppers (dry or fresh, depends on what you want)
• 1 Handful of Salt
• “Enough” White Vinegar

Method:

Cut tops off of peppers. Place in blender with salt, and cover with white vinegar. Blend to the texture you desire. Take this mess of awesome to a sauce pot and bring to a boil stirring twice. It would be wise to do this outside or during a time when no one is in the house. After its been boiled pour in a jar or bottle and cover with a cloth and let sit for 3 days. Pour off the top level of vinegar and go to town.

So I have a few updates on the house. Here are a list of new things we’ve done:

• Completely new floor in the back bedroom.
• Hang drywall in kitchen, and finish it.
• Texture living room and kitchen (big thanks to Shane Golding)
• Prime kitchen and living room.
• Paint the bedroom and library.
• New carpet in bedroom and library. (so so so nice)
• Clean out the attic.

Enough with lists and talk, here are the pictures. Sorry about the quality, I took them with my BB.

Before

After

Before

After (new drywall, texture and primer)

before

After. We replaced this pipe from the basement to the vent on the roof. Its a a pretty awesome project.

Wish I had taken a before of this pimp dresser Waldo left me, but it turned out really nice with some new paint.

Just less than a month has passed since I bought this pile and it’s actually starting to take shape. I’m amazed by all the help I’ve had from everyone. I’m finally able to imagine a finished product. My dad has been inspirational. He’s put loads of work and thought into getting stuff done right. I don’t think I could ever repay him for his hard work and dedication. My mom has been cleaning and scrubbing until her lungs are burnt and she’s brain damaged from inhaling chemicals. Kristin’s parents (the future in-laws) have done wonders to the trees and yard. Mike Carter has been the head-guts behind the major construction and Brian and Kim have helped tons too. Thanks guys!

Here’s my to-do list as of today.

1. Finish the hole into the very depts of Hell. (New subfloor in the bedroom) [incomplete]
2. Texture living room. [incomplete]
3. Prime kitchen and living room. [incomplete]
4. Hang Drywall. [incomplete]
5. Install new carpet [incomplete]
6. New bathroom floors. [incomplete]
7. New bathroom sink/cabinet. [incomplete]
8. Install Laminate flooring. [incomplete]
9. Run some new electric wires. [incomplete]
10. New light fixtures in kitchen and front room. [incomplete]
11. Relocate Washer/Dryer. [incomplete]
12. Frame basement. [incomplete]
13. Remove Gail’s damn RV!! [incomplete]
14. Some lite demolition. [complete]
15. Weather seal all windows and doors. [complete]
16. Clean out the tenant’s (Robert “Super-G” Hines) stuff. [complete]
17. Clean out my uncles’ stuff. [complete]
18. Remove old carpet. [complete]
19. Scrub/Dust/Vacuum/Sanitize entire house. [complete]
20. Prep floors for Laminate installation [complete]
21. Prep work for painting wood paneling. [complete]

If there’s something you’d like to tackle let me know, and donations via paypal are welcome as well. Email the $$ to tool.fool@gmail.com

That’s right. These were under the rotten floor in my house.

Here are a few pictures of the house… There has been some awesome progress and some horrifying nightmares. Unfortunately I don’t have pictures of the mummy cats on my Fuji. I’ll grab them off my blackberry tomorrow at work.

First the good stuff, progress:

This pile is the bathroom sink, and all the rotten hardwood from the back bedroom.

Tore off the wood paneling here for new drywall.

We used some of the extra cement from the foundation to block off the irrigation ditch.

Sweet. 1/2 the consumption of 1 of the original bulbs and twice the light.

Buh bye!

All masked up and ready to texture! Wewt!

Ready to prime the wood paneling in the kitchen.

Re-doing someone's awesome duct tape insulation job the right way.

We fixed the foundation that caused the bedroom's floor to rot.

One of the 4 feral cats that have been relocated.

Now for the nightmares:

This kinda falls in the progress area but its still a nightmare. (this is a bedroom)

Old rotten joists ready to be replaced.

Wiring safety fail.

That is a nice patch wire that gives power to two rooms upstairs.

Drain pipe fail -- I don't even want to start this project.

Crazier than a box full of kittens.

Thats not even funny.