here is my kool a$$ outdoor bathroom

this is the view from the outside

the diagonal floor boards

my $5 toilet and the free (heavy) sink

the toilet was purchased at the longview ReStore http://www.habitat.org/env/restores.aspx

the totally cool $5 (it was marked 10 but 1/2 price) door with destinys boobs. the door was purchased at the tyler ReStore http://www.habitat.org/env/restores.aspx

Musical Dogs

We have three dogs Trixie, Mack, and Rocko. Normally they all get along great but a couple of weeks ago we had a huge dog fight. Trixie and Rocko were ganging up on poor Mack. Daniel and I could hardly get them apart. It took several tries for us to get it done. Everybody was bleeding - it was horrible. So since then we've been doing musical dogs and swapping who is outside every few hours.

Poor Mack is all alone now.

An upside for him is that he keeps getting to go travelling on the weekends with us now while Rocko and Trixie stay home in the backyard.

Neglected Cabin

the doors shown above (we have 2 sets of them) were purchased at the downtown Dallas ReStore http://www.habitat.org/env/restores.aspx

I hope the cabin doesn't think we've totally abandoned it ~ we haven't, but it's been so hot lately and summer things are going on constantly. Also it's always close in our minds (and hearts) as we keep planning things for it.

This past weekend Daniels mom and grandmother moved and we helped them get the big stuff. They had mostly gotten the little stuff taken care of.

Next hopefully we'll get the roof completed. I think we've definitely decided we are doing a metal roof. What we looked at was less than $2 a linear foot and has a 25 year warranty which is awesome! The roof is going to be more than a weekend job so we'll have to plan week so we can be focused and get it done. And then once we get the roof accomplished we can start working on insulation and start focusing on one room at a time to get them completed (hopefully). ((Historically this has been our plan "let's start a project and not do anything else until we get it completed" but it never works out that way. We start a project and then we get excited about another project so we start it and next thing we have 10 started projects and no COMPLETED projects. I need a "DONE" stamp like they had on Monster House. Maybe that would help.))

We have started talking about planning the porches. I think our goal is to have a wrap around porch on the cabin but it will have to be done in phases. I know (pretty sure) phase 1 is going to be the front porch. I hope: it will be 10 - 12 feet deep and I want it to be a screened porch. Also I've been talking to Daniel about making some wood shingles to go on its roof. I have these great books called "foxfire" that teach you the "old way" of doing things and there is an article in them about shakes. I need a froe so if you have one or know of someone who does let me know. I've been watching them on ebay so hopefully i'll get one soon. Yeah I'm so excited!! (see now you got me all excited about the porch and I want to start it now and finish the roof later. shame on you)

Lastly, we've been getting to visit with the Hillhouses (Chris and Shawna) which are our neighbors up the hill to the cabin. Chris is 1 year older than Daniel and they grew up out there together. So it has been nice getting to visit with them the last couple of weekends.