Category: House of Rock

The House of Rock received a thorough dose of renovation this weekend. Jesse and I put in a ton of work Saturday night and purchased all sorts of goods from Home Depot to prep for Sun.

Sunday, Tony, Paulette, and Shaun L. came over and graciously offered some of their time to us. Without them, we never would have finished what we did. Thanks guys!

A few of the key accomplishments:

We now have light above the stove. For 2 years we have not had light here, and finally the electrical work was finished to get things working again. The kitchen is now extremely bright.

The game room was transformed into a dining room. We painted the walls a coral color, cleaned the carpet, and reorganized the furniture for a bit more of a mature look. We’re pleased with the result.

Other less photographic accomplishments were leaky faucet fixings, toilet replacements, trim installation, floor cleaning, and door creation. It was intense.

Now, it’s 9:20pm on Sunday and I’m toast. I’ll be heading to bed now, so that I can hit a 6:40am flight on Southwest tomorrow.

Destination: Texas.

Yesterday I bought a toilet.

Home Depot was mere minutes away from closing for the evening and they only had one register open. The cashier was having difficulties and it looked like it could take awhile.

So I pushed my cart over to the ‘self service’ registers, picked up the toilet, held it at arms length, and swung it back and forth over the scanner until I heard the beep of recognition.

As I placed the toilet onto the items shelf, employees shouted from behind me

“Whoa! you did it!”
“You’re the man!”

It was magnificent.