Day 334 - kitchen back splash and landscape plan started

Day 334 started as a dreary day. The plant called early with issues so no real sleeping in. At 10:30 we met Wendy Aris of Aris Landscape design. After so much planning was put into the house with success, it only seemed right to get the bare slate exterior done to scale as well. Wendy showed us blueprints of another place, asked us many questions and took photos during the exterior walk about. She will return next week for actual measurements to get started. I am so excited to see the plans and get this part of the ranch started, especially with spring just around the corner.

After her meeting it was a quick lunch and Sheldon headed off to town to get supplies for back splash installation. Shaina did dog detail in the yard while Britt walked Diego. Inside, B vacuumed while S unloaded the dishwasher. Yes it was chore day for the girls, hard done by and all. I called for pool table status and have it booked to be set up next Friday! Sheldon got back around 2:30 and it was time to get started on the back splash. It is called Urban Moka in mosaic.

The girls went out to work with a couple horses and Britt fed the two skinnies.

the closet guy got some final drawings to us for the master closet, he designed and quoted both wire and solid and Sheldon chose the solid even at double the cost.

Shaina then went to town at 4 so Kaylin could air brush hers and Emily's face for the hockey game they were going to. Britt hit the TV room only coming up to make some soup for supper as we carried on with the back splash

dry test run

 mastic goes on

 first two sheets up

 troweling it made easy

 doing the Ellen dance behind a person still shot!

 and the work continues but not without trial and errors.. of course

finally at 8:45 I cooked up some wings as we were getting a bit peckish, here is the wall around 9. Britt joined us for wings then back down to theater room. We carried on with more laying out and cutting and gluing. During breaks I updated the blogs thru the day. Finally at 11 we shut down production in the kitchen.

 Diego is finding the noise in his garage annoying by 11pm :-)