Hello Monday

I haven't done a "Hello Monday" post in a while, so how about a few shout outs?
Hello pretty, little waterfall which is only a short walk from our home.

Hello skipping stones and looking for shells.  A winter day in the '50s?  We'll take it!

Hello determined look--riding your horse is serious business.  Especially in your jammies.

Hello, welcome to my shoe shop!

Hello un-expected home reno projects.  You weren't on our agenda, but I guess that doesn't matter.

Hello to planned projects--much easier to manage!

Hello to bright, happy smiles.  Someone made the switch to full-day Kindergarten in the middle of January and couldn't be more pleased!!

Linking up with Lisa and her Hello posts.

When it rains, it pours...

...quite literally.  In our living room.  NOT on the list of home improvement plans.........Grrrr.

 A few weekends ago I was upstairs in the shower.  It was still pretty early, so it was dark outside.  As I was coming downstairs from the shower, J was coming up and asked me if it was raining out.  I said I didn't think so and he replied with "Grrrreat!!!!"  As we walked down and over to one of the windows in the living room, I saw the water rushing down the wall and the window.  On the inside.  This is generally not the best way to start a Saturday morning.  Big sigh.

We knew that the bath/shower directly above the living room needed some work, especially the tile/grout, but I guess it took exchanging the shower-head to really accelerate the process.  Seems that with the new shower-head, more water was hitting on the weak spots and eventually the water just starting pouring down.  We had planned on working on the bathroom, but that still quite a bit down the road.  Guess what just got moved up on the importance list?!

The Lord had us under his wing though.  Thankfully we have a second bathroom (with a shower) that we can use.  If this had happened a few months earlier, we'd have been in a whole mess of trouble since it just got finished this past November. 

So now J's working on patching the living room, replacing the last few windows, creating a little extra space in the bathroom and re-tiling the bathtub.  Good thing he doesn't mind taking a little break for this:

Happy Saturday folks!