We bought a playset...really who needs the gym

I forgot to post this cause really with this house I honestly forget weeks.  Found this great playset for the kids on CraigsList.  Was located in Denver, had to bring a trailer and take it apart myself.  No issues, we've got tools!  Get there and the owner didn't realize that every bolt was essentially glued on due to the previous owners painting over them.  They had just bought the house and didn't need the set.  So what ended up being "easy breakdown" took 4.5hrs.  with him staying to help!!!


My Mom went with to take pictures and bag bolts which thanks be to God on that one cause if not it would have been an expensive pile of wood to burn.  There was no way I would have been able to get it back together.

And it was nearly 100' in Denver that day too

Will say that truck is a beast...100% utter beast!

My life is my gym

It took about a week to get it together and I had to go and get new metal (15' stakes) to hold it down.  There is no doubt that it is a huge hit in our house.  Probably should have dug out the grass to prep for mulch...but eeeehhhhh that's a next spring project!

1 Step forward...85 back

I can't even express how much I lost my every loving mind the other day.  We ordered patio doors from a company, that I'm not even going to list cause that letter to the corporate office is still pending, and were told 11-14 weeks for door to be put in.  Well....that would have put us into October...sucks but okaaayyyyy...its "how things are".  Our neighbor also ordered windows from the same company and told me that they were extremely back logged and to call them.  Needless to say when the lady told me 16-20 weeks I was not a happy camper.  Especially with the excuse "its cause of all the hail damage..." my response was "we ordered our door afterwards so that's bad planning on your part!"  Jordan even called from Afghanistan is how bent I was about things.

So fast forward, door is here, someone cancels their install we get in a stand by list.  Now when I ordered the door I SPECIFICALLY asked the sales guy if the rot that I noticed on the frame was going to be issue (outside) and how bad the patio was too.  The door was sagging/bowing and aluminum with no handle on it so I was clear that there was going to be issues.  Cause lets be real everything that "should" be easy with this house hasn't been.  I even gave the electrical incident as the example and was told that it wouldn't be a issue...blah blah blah.

Installer shows up...first thing out of his mouth "ummmm Ma'am we have a problem"  no kidding no power tools plugged in and that's what he says.  He suspects there is rot but this is going to take more than the hour they had him slotted for.  I said I know that, I told the sale guy to plan for F-O-U-R.
Installer cracks it open and we find THIS

no wait...gets better (or worse) 

yes that is his hand in my door frame...his 6'7 hand in my f-ing frame!!!

So the E-N-T-I-R-E 2x8 was rotted where the old door use to be.  Oh oh oh and he said that there was not way there wasn't water damage on that basement wall.  We walk down and what do you know...its been patched and skimmed.  Was hard to tell with the color the wall was but explains why there was always a musty smell downstairs. 

Thank you sweet baby Jesus laying in the manger that the installer was a contractor and was able to frame the door in cause you know it only SNOWED that night!!!!  I think the hysterics is what caused him to work till nearly 11pm...yup 11pm...I was a hot ball of pissed off I was.  Think I might have terrified him into staying for fear of what would happen if he left me with a gaping hole in my kitchen...while it was snowing.

The door is really nice and even Jordan noticed the difference on skype.  He said he could actually SEE the trees instead of just the green blob from the previous doors.  

1 step forward...sigh...really terrified what is behind that wall in the basement now!

Watch out....we've got garage doors YO!!

If you could have heard the squeal I let out when I saw those bad boys put in....it wasn't a elegant moment for me nor was the dance I did but hot damn we've got garage doors!!!!  Not just any kind of door, no no no!  We've got Mahogany prairie windowed doors with silent open!  Oh oh oh ohhhhhh and remote open from my phone...hello technology.

I will say that the guys over at Mountain Fox Garage are just consummate professionals and if you ever need a garage door you NEED to have them do it.  They could have robbed us blind....blind I say cause other contractors tried.  These guys came in gave us the honest bid and we had doors in less than TWO WEEKS!!!!  (this is me doing the chair dance).  Don't feel me in it...well you will...check out the pics!

So here they were, the hot holy mess of doors.  What you don't see is that the bottom of the right door didn't seal...like AT ALL!!  you would close it and then have to step on it for it to come all the way down.  Not annoying at all.  Nor were the bugs and dust that managed to make it in all the bloody time and how freezing cold the basement was.  OOOOORRRR how loud it was to open...ok you get it...it was rough. 

Drum roll please......

And it gets better

Look look it seals

And where the old opener use to be is now a fancy motion detected light

With the openers on the side

hello fancy....how you doin?!?!?

I can't possibly say enough about how much I'm diggin these doors.  Do y'all feel me...I'm loving these doors!  There is zero dust now and the basement is soooo much warmer.  I'm pretty excited so here it comes.