Where are we?

I am simply astonished I have not written since October. Well not really as I have put my energies into a few other things besides sitting at the computer.

Last you heard from SIT, we were busy with having some fun in the summer. Well it is now the Fall season and we continued to have fun. Well some of you may not think it is fun but we sort-of do!

We had a couple of trees die at our rental properties so we tackled the cutting down and removal of the trees. That part went pretty smooth. The tough part was getting the stumps out since we were going to plant new trees in the same spots. I definitely didn’t need to work out for a few days with this project going on.

I need to keep this short so here goes. We decided to do a little bit of makeover to the house, well the bathroom and kitchen counters that is. We were able to make a decision on the granite countertops we wanted. The demolition was tackled by us, with Izzy supervising. She seems to be pretty good at that job.

The professionals installed the counters for us and then our jobs started again. We took care of the plumbing and then I set out on finding the backsplashes for the kitchen and bathrooms. We decided to take it up to the bottom of the cabinets in the kitchen so I had a bit more tile work to do. While I was busy with the tiling project, Steve tackled rebuilding the back gate he had made in 2008 and refurbishing the garden area.

Hopefully you can see by the pictures that we both completed our projects. Oh and Izzy supervised.

 Before

After

Island before

 After

Hall Bath

Master Bath

Supervision at it's finest

The End Result

I made a trip to southern California to visit my brothers, meet some cousins I had never met before, and surprise my niece at her baby shower. The weather was great and so was the company. It was wonderful to meet Levi Bailey and his family. Rod, Mary and I spent several hours visiting, looking at pictures and getting to know Levi (2nd cousin) and his Aunt Laura (our cousin) and her husband. Pretty sure we will connect in person again.

The visit was short but unfortunately it was at the time when the massive fires were occurring. I felt bad for everybody impacted by them and as I drove from one brother’s to the other.

Thanksgiving has come and gone and now it is time for the SIT Christmas letter. Oh and where are we? Still in Idaho that’s where we are and will be for the winter!

Amazing! So as I usually write, stay tuned!