Remodeling Update, Spooky Cool Old House, and Ashley's Grandmother's 85th Birthday

The past several days have been pretty busy Antonio and his 86 year old grandfather finished the work on our fireplace and now it is well proportioned in the room as you can see from the picture.
BEFORE AFTER

As you can see it is portioned much better now. All I have left to do now is: Finished Sheetrocking, Tape and Float, Prime, Paint, Build a Mantle, Build a Window Seat, Install the 2 Windows, Paint the Fireplace, and do the trim work... :). Hopefully over the next several weeks I will be able to get it all knocked out.

This past weekend we also traveled to Baton Rouge, LA to celebrate Mrs. Dawson's 85th Birthday. It was a great time other than my intestines throwing a mutiny against my body which kept me in bed all day Saturday (thus the reason I'm not in the picture).

We had to run out to my parent's land on Monday to pick up the trailer so that I could make a haul to the dump with all of our home renevation garbage. While there we visited the little old house we have driven by a dozen times out in Gause. Come to find out it was owned by 2 sisters one since has past away and the other is in a nursing home. The house was built in 1905 so it is now 100 years old. It was filthy but may have some really nice character. Ashley has sent a letter to the owner to see if they would be interested in selling the house and the 4.5 acres it sits on. We will keep you posted but for now you can find the pictures of the property here.