We started renovating the inside of that room as well. I came home from work one day and all of the dry wall was in the driveway. It was painted a terrible dark blue, and there was an equally terrible purple shag carpet in there. But that was all removed down to the studs...Nate was able
install new additional outlets around the room (he even passed the electrical inspection -what a stud!). And then we hung new drywall. Yes, even me. Nate showed me how to cut and hang drywall sheets. I even got pretty good at "dimpling" the drywall screws, if I do say so myself!
I was also able to finally take care of something that had been bothering me since we moved in - the kitchen stove. Its an older Jenn Air convection/electric range, which is supposedly a nice unit - but it only had two burners on one side, and this stupid and useless grill feature on the other. You cannot heat that much cast iron with electricity. Its just not possible, unless you have all day. So all this time I was cooking with two burners, and it sucked. But, I found that the stove allows you to remove and replace the burner units and Jenn Air hasn't changed to connections in quite some time so I was able to find a replacement two burner unit for the stove and finally get rid of the disgusting grill!
Before: Useless grill! Only two burners! After: Behold the glory of four burners!
In between all of this we found time to go to see the Pats at Buffalo with our friends Sarah and Brandon. Turns out Buffalo's not that far away! Unfortunately, it was not friendly territory for us Pats Fans and on top of that it was a blow out at 56-10! But that's okay we had a lot of fun anyway and I'm sure we'll back again next year!
I would be remiss if I didn't mention the snow...we got a good bit of snow - maybe 10-12 inches or so followed by a few more inches. It's an early snow which is good maybe we'll get to x-country ski this year. At least Max is having fun in it!
