Depot Bay, July 13th and 14th

"The fam"
At Mo's in Lincoln city to have clam chowder and fish and chips. Our favorite place to eat on the coast. We left Sisters and drove to coast to spend the night before Sean had to leave to go back to Tennessee. We felt sad that he had to leave.

Our view from our condo on the beach. One of my favorite places to come on the coast

Lil' Black Sambo
We always drive by this restaurant and never stop. Well, Fiona got to pick where we were having lunch and this is where she wanted to go! The name of the restaurant is after the book Little Black Sambo that was written in 1899 by Helen Bannerman. My Grandma Chastain used to read the book to my mom.(she still has her book) My mom would tell me the story as little girl. She now tells my girls the story. Every night they want to Grandma to tell them about Little Black Sambo. If you are not familar with the story it is about a little black boy from India and his encouter with the tigers in the forest and how he outsmarts them.(They turn into tiger butter) It really is wonderful story.

Construction Update - Primer and Paint! - Part 2

Today was a fun day because I got to see some painters. They were going to town on the rooms and had made some good progress. Overall, I think there are a few things I could seem keeping us from being in before school starts, but I'm still hopeful.

View of the garage. More paint on the walls:

They painted some of the doors in the kitchen:

Other doors were painted in one of the bedrooms upstairs:

Compare this picture to the last on in the last set and you'll see the paint on the walls has been painted flush to the ceiling for a nice clean line. The painters in the house when I visited were painting the walls and all the wall paint near the ceiling was done:

Again notice the work up near the ceiling on the walls (the painter is hiding :-):

Well that's all for now. I will have more tomorrow when I go and visit after church.

-- Sean

Construction Update - Primer and Paint!

This was one of the harder set of pictures to take because my lungs were burning almost the whole time. It was really hard to breathe with all the fumes from the paint, but I made it through. :)

We have a garage door!:

Inside the garage you can see that the ceiling is painted (maybe primed?), as well as the trim, and the walls have started their first coat of paint:

More ceiling paint, trim paint, and wall paint:

Here's the view up the stairs, the board behind the railing getting a coat:

Dishwasher and microwave; we must be close:

The loft with everything painted:

Another view of the loft (this corresponds with another picture in the next set to demonstrate progress):

Um ... more to come. I guess I'll keep saying that.

-- Sean

Construction Update - Trim!

This set of pictures shows that all the trim and doors are now being installed. Every step makes it feel more like a home. I was so surprised because they were able to trim out the entire house in a day!

Garage with some leftovers (I think from the trim above the fireplace):

Here is the hallway to the garage (door on the left). The door straight ahead is the laundry room and the door to the right is the 1/2 bathroom:

Standing in front of the front door looking at the fireplace, dining room, then kitchen:

Here's the other direction standing in the kitchen. Notice the crown molding. Nice!:

Here is a picture from the loft again, noticing the trim an doors, and the railing has been installed at the stairs:

More to come! Stay tuned.

-- Sean

Construction Update - Drywall!

So, I'm actually behind on pictures, so the next few posts will kinda run together. It's been very cool to see the progress on the house and I'm hopeful we'll be able to move in early so that we can be in the house when Fiona starts school.

Here we go:

Here is the view into the house from the garage:

Here is the view from the kitchen back towards the dining room, living room and front door. You can see the stairs are there in the middle of the walls on the right, and our master bedroom is immediately off the kitchen/dining room to the right.

This is the loft where we will be lazy:

This is a view from the loft looking at the upstairs bedrooms. There are 4 bedrooms upstairs, one which has a private bathroom (behind the wall on the right).

More to come!

-- Sean

Construction Update - Insulation!

So, as requested, below are more pictures of the inside as progress is made on the house.

Garage with insulation:

Insulation all around the downstairs.

The loft, insulated:

Looking out from one of the 4 bedrooms upstairs; notice the sheetrock already in preparation:

The outside where some workers are putting on the stone work where the scaffolding is:

I think the house is making progress. Still a lot to do, but I think things are going okay. More pictures to come!

-- Sean

Quilt show Tradition

This was our rental for the week. Don't you just love the front porch.
Sisters Quilt show is our special family tradition. I've gone for the last 9 years in row.
(http://www.stitchinpost.com/) It was started by Jean Wells and has just grown into something special. The last six years I've done the Quilters Affair class and ended with big outdoor Quilt show. Sean made a special trip out from Tennessee so that he and girls could be their at the end of the week. Fiona and Aida have gone every year of their life.

I took a hand applique class from Tony Phillips. She was great. This is her with one of her quilts. We worked on sample and then she talked about her design method which is a lot like mine and then we got to start our design......

This was one of her class samples also in her book. Hand-Appliqued Quilts
Whimsical Designs and Simple Techniques


My hand applique sample I did in class.

Wednesday we took a class from a Velma Newman. It was basic class using media on fabric. The painting was the best part. This is one of her quilts. It was pretty amazing. Although, she was selling it for $30,000!