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Howdy, @TMulhern! So happy to make your acquaintance. DH and I have been deep into rehabbing old houses and building new ones for the past 40 years or more. Hope we can grow and learn from each other.

Big grin at that tale.

Here they are at work. They didn't get started until after noon today. Here is a peek at the mess their drilling leaves. I'm not sure what this mess will do to my dahlia bed, but I'm not complaining. I just want them done. I think they have completed the first bore hole and have been working...

Today is Tuesday, January 20th and the drilling crew arrived about 10:30. I wish I could share the sounds and vibrations of the machine drilling beside the house. Such music to my ear after waiting for so long.

Here are some photos of the lower cabinet doors. Some are warped because of being glued and other have long cracks Here we have warping and cracking. And these below are all cracked somewhere on the panels. Come summer and these cracks are almost invisible. These photos were taken before I...

Is that supposed to keep the weight of the train off the pipe? Or run the train off the rails? Or both? My actual guess would be neither. That would have to be some strong stuff to be "more powerful than a locomotive".

They are here! Here's the horizontal drilling machine next to my crabapple tree. Here is the water source for drilling, and way out in the field is the back hoe. Behold! The horizontal digger at work.

Neat idea, @Joel_BC! That is so much better than laying them in piles or stacking blades over nails on the wall.

Here is the finished back wall. It doesn't show much darker than the rest of the walls, but there is a difference. Most everything is put away in its new place in the newly cleaned and restructured cupboard spaces. The kitchen light fixture -- DS stuck up a porcelain with light just until I...

On Monday, DS painted the darker of my color choices -- Brown Owl -- on the back wall and all the bulkheads. Brown Owl is the same color that is in my small bathroom by the kitchen/back door. As you can see, my color scheme has been pretty boring. Except for this brick wall and the one in...

On Sunday, DS painted the kitchen ceiling. I forgot to say anything and ended up with a flat ceiling paint rather than the semi-gloss I had before. It was a paint that went on slightly purple and dried white. Here is the kitchen before painting. He also took down the 4 ft. florescent light...

Pictures? That sounds like a winning project!

As long as the whip isn't for use on the driver. . .

I bought some paint today and tomorrow, DS has promised to come out and paint the kitchen. There are a few cracks from the house settling over the years and some trim nails that never got set. The kitchen counter will need new caulking even if I decide to put tile on the backsplash wall area...

Welcome to SS, @mothergoose! It's good to see you here. How far north? I'm living in south-est, central-est Wisconsin. Oh, yes, an hour south of Chicago -- is that still in northern Illinois? Sure sounds like you're one busy farm-type. Good for you! Cold, colder, coldest here! So far, so good...

I forgot the holes! DS put in a new base -- the old one was rotting out -- and a back to cover the plumbing holes. I will have to stain and seal the new base and back as well as caulk the top.

Here is my refurbished half-bathroom. Notice the walls are beautiful and everything is back in place. Only the caulking is left to do. Isn't that where we started?

Here we are getting things back in order. All the decorations are back on the wall. Just waiting for the sink to be hooked back up.

Notice how neatly the caulk around the sink has been removed? That's my MAN! As if it matters, we were discussing redoing the master bath later in the day and DS suggested we use the smaller stool in the half bath for the master bathroom and put a new stool in the half bath. That's just in...

I have resolved to go through the house room by room and fix or finish everything in each room. I started today with the half bath by the back door. First I took everything off the walls and out of the cupboard for a good deep cleaning. ME:"Sweetheart, could you strip off the caulk around the...