The upstairs bathroom is nearly done

Frank was here over the weekend with the plan to get the bathroom ready for grout and he succeeded.  All of the tiles are in place waiting to be grouted.  Here's the shower.

The vanity (we did run into a few hiccups...we forgot to buy a gfi socket, and we bought the wrong light switch thingy, so there are wires still hanging out of the wall.  We also bought a medicine cabinet that was too big (though the guy at Home Depot insisted it would fit), and Frank did some surgery on the wall and made it fit.)

The tiles in the shower

Friday was Peter's day off, so he installed the drip system for our veggies.  This front side of the yard as well as part of it that's not pictured will be our garden area.  We are currently growing zucchini, several types of peppers, cucumbers and a tomato here.  Though the other area will have watermelon, cantaloupe, butternut squash, and yellow squash.  Not to mention we still have the little bricked in area that is currently housing several varieties of cherry tomatoes, carrots, peas(though it's almost the end of the season for that), radishes, red bell peppers, blackberries, ollaliberries, strawberries, some green beans, onions and celery.  And we have blueberries, and cilantro in pots and a grape vine waiting to be planted.  I hope it all grows well.  Connor has been devouring every strawberry that even remotely turns red.  He'll likely eat all of the cherry tomatoes too.  Though once our zucchini gets going, I'm sure we'll have plenty to share.

Here's our first boysenberry...almost ready.  I'm sure Connor will enjoy it in the next couple of days.

Our neighbors keep commenting on our yard.  All of the flowers are in bloom and it really looks great.

Here are some baby grapes on our grape vine.

During this week Frank hopes to come by after work and grout the bathroom so he can install the toilet and the last of the shower/sink parts and it'll be done.  Then he'll be busy mudding and texturing the bedrooms.  Oh yes parts of our plan have changed.  We decided to have Frank do all four bedrooms upstairs which involved moving all the stuff that was located in one room downstairs and out of the way.  So our new family room is loaded with stuff.  We're also moving the family room to the front room of the house (originally the living room).  Then we will have a kitchen/dining room next to each other, which made more sense.  We're also adding an island to the kitchen...but the upstairs is a priority so that will be taken care of first.

Peter plans on planting the grape vine this week and building some sort of support system for it.  He'll also add more drip hose so I can plant more seeds to the side area of the front yard.  He's also talking about replacing the manifold area as well since it leaks pretty badly and we have to turn all of the systems on by hand.  He's also going to get a timer, so that'll be pretty cool.

My job this week is to order the window treatments.  Currently we have red paper over our family room windows-it really is quite lovely :)  My mom and I measured almost all of the windows on Saturday so now I just have to get them ordered.  Peter and I also have to order the cabinets for the island since it'll take about 4 weeks or so for them to make and ship them.

There's major progress being made and I'm really excited to get the bedrooms upstairs done.