This is the (almost free) mobile home that we moved onto our property last month. Bryan is spending every spare moment working on the renovation. Jennifer & Bryna hope to take residency of this 2 bedroom, 2 bath home later this year...hopefully by summer. 
Good shot of my new master bath's basin sink, mirror, etc. Love this room!
Can you believe how beautiful these hardwoods are!!! I am so excited. The living room walls are a beautiful gold color (called Brittlebush for some reason) - not going to miss the pinky-red.
Bedroom #1 (above) also has Brittlebush walls (painted paneling). This floor had a LOT of water damage - it is sheerly amazing now.
This is a close-up of the tile - they are ceramic, but look like aged & worn saltillo. Below is in the master bath. We will have this tile in both baths, both hallways, mud room, and the sunroom. Hardwoods in living/dining/kitchen, bedroom 1& 2; Laminate in Bedroom 3 and master.
Pre-grout in the sunroom (also can be seen in the first picture of this post). This tile and the paint selections were chosen to enhance the Southwest feel and look of the property. We're getting closer!
Here is a great picture (taken from inside the living room) of the peahen and her peachick! They are so interesting to watch - God's sense of humor incarnate! These two birds and one male are the only fowl still living. The story of Rufus and 2 other peafowl (one male & one female) is too sad for the written word - ask me in person some time!
Check this out! This new doggy door works with a magnet that Katie will wear on her collar. When she approaches, the mechanism will allow her to enter the house (but unless I issue a magnet to the peachick or one of the cats, no other animals will come in - at least not through this door). And yes, that IS a Whataburger cup in the hole left where the dryer vent was! Gotta love American ingenuity!
Bryan and Mike texturing the living room walls (along with every other wall in the house). In case you are interested, the name of the texture style is "Spanish drag" - LOL, conjures up an image, huh?!?
Who is that masked man? Mike is obviously spraying some noxious substance - or is expecting an attack from a bioterrorist.
The masked man's wife, Sara - standing in my newly-painted master bedroom. I love these green walls!
We decided to lay laminate in the two bedrooms that did not already have hardwood floors (above is the master, Bedroom #3 also has this beautiful laminate). Making real progress is a good thing!
This is the hallway from the dining room toward the master bedroom. Very cool light from IKEA - looks like a great place to hang pictures, huh?
Bryan is sanding the floor around the kitchen cabinets - that which does not kill us makes us stronger! Please note the absence of the gaping hole through which I so gracefully fell!!
Huge sanding job! Nasty black stuff stinks really bad - Mike & Bryan almost died during this part of the process.
This hole is in my master closet - before the remodel, it was part of the master bath and contained the drain from the shower. This is a close-up of a baby tree - isn't it amazing how nature longs for light!
CHAOS - Amy, Heather, Jennifer, and Sarah before the quartet meeting and walk-on. (The camera obviously was nervous or excited!)
Can you keep my secret?!? Photography is actually prohibited during competition. I really thought the rule just applied to FLASH photography...so I set my camera to Auto, turned the flash off, and discreetly broke the rules! The black blob is the back of the head of the man in front of me. Our girls are singing their ballad "Broken-hearted" in this pic! Don't they look great?
Beautiful girls waiting for the judges results! CHAOS ranked 16th in this, their very first, contest...and are now preparing for our regional contest in April 2008. Debbie and I are very proud of these girls; thrilled to be at the beginning of a very exciting journey as they grow in their skills.
Heather, Jennifer, and I drove to Amarillo (Wednesday 7/11) to fly to San Antonio for their quartet competition. Yes, Lubbock still has an airport...it's a long story, but we needed my car in Amarillo on Saturday (for my nephew Kime's wedding in Panhandle)...here we are in the airport at Amarillo waiting for our plane...delayed, of course!
Sister sharing and multi-tasking! They are quite talented girls.
We drove to Castroville on Thursday to eat at Lumpy's. Our friend, Sydney, now lives there with her husband and she works at this BBQ joint. Sara & Jenn are dressing Sydney up (she looks thrilled, huh?)
Jenn & Syd doing the tango! Good friends & good food!
Debbie is listening to her peppermint patty. It's scary, isn't it? This is the president of our chorus!! :)
The next picture is one of the 2 peahens we inherited running around the new property.
And here she is again followed closely by her peachick! Too cute.
The critters in the next pic are NOT quite so cute as those prior. Here's the one area where we have uncovered termites! They went into hiding when they saw me coming with my camera. We are having the property treated next weekend. Don't ever ask yourself "what else can happen?" Our God has a seriously obtuse sense of humor!
The wood siding on the wall in this room used to be the exterior of the "old" part of the house (the 1938 section; at some point, the west half of the house was added on). I love the weathered wood look and plan to integrate it into the style of this bathroom. No telling just how many hours of work I will have to put in making this old weathered siding look like old weathered siding!!
Bryan's attic ladder - a new install in the ceiling of the mud room...
I am not planning on going up there any time soon!! Bryan doesn't look to be having too much fun judging from the look on his face - it's hot under that metal roof!! 
The dining/kitchen area required temporary removal of a significant amount of flooring. Mike did excellent work here to level the floor...every floor joist here required adjustment! While he had so much floor out, he & Bryan decided to replace all the water lines - I'm going to have a brand new home disguised as an old house.
The floor in bedroom #1 had significant water damage along the east side. This blue is old paper backing left from removal of linoleum tiles.
This is the gutted guest bath! First picture is where the tub was (you can see into the hallway through the wall). The second is where the old sink cabinet once stood. The floor and sheetrock in this room had long-term water damage from old leaky pipes.
Hallway to master bedroom - seen from opposite side in bathroom picture above.
Master bath with all fixtures and some flooring removed - new water & sewer lines will need to be placed in this area, too. 
Blurry picture of new mud room area. Note portion of wall (where H2O heater was) has been removed as well as portion of wall into master bedroom. The washer/dryer will be on the left in this area with new cabinets above. (This picture and those below were taken 7/1/07)
Mud room (left) and hallway (right) as seen from master bedroom. New wall with mudroom door yet to be constructed.
This is the wall between master bedroom and master bath. The door into bathroom has been moved (hello Katie!). You can also see the frame for the new pocket door from bathroom into closet (the ladder is sitting in the new closet area).
This is Rufus. He's a black silkie bantam chicken (I know, if he's a "he" maybe it's "rooster", does it really matter?). We inherited him along with at least 5 other birds (2 peacocks, 2 peahens, and a new "peachick"). I don't really know how to have birds, but guess we'll learn. Rufus is staying with the neighbor right now, so he won't starve to death...I have recently seen him running around in our yard a couple of times. Bryan says Rufus and one of the peacocks was on the front porch looking in through the glass doors the other day - I can only imagine what they were thinking about all this commotion going on! SO....do you think it looks bad? Kinda scary? Consider this. Have you ever seen a post-surgical face lift patient? Lots of bruising & swelling that resolves over a period of several weeks. Then - voila! Beauty!
This is a view from inside the sunroom. There is blue/gray carpet throughout the house that we will be removing to expose hard wood oak floors (except in the hallways, baths, & mudroom where we are putting large saltillo-like tiles).
View of kitchen from dining room. I love the stained wood cabinets - SO glad prior owners didn't paint!
Looking back from the red wall in previous picture toward dining area. Hallway seen on left leads to master bedroom. Hallway on right shows back door.
This is guest bath. The plumbing in this room as leaked over the years leaving significant damage to the floors. We will be gutting this room down to the studs & replace the plumbing, flooring, bathtub, toilet...well, everything but the mirror is going!
Utility room. The washer/dryer sat behind this (the back) door and under a window. We are knocking out a wall & incorporating the small closet in the master to make a larger mud room. H2O heater will go into a small closet across the room and the washer/dryer will sit in the enlarged area where water heater now sits.
Master bath. South end of a long, narrow room. This double sink is going into the guest bath. We're repurposing this space to make a smaller bath & a walk-in closet.
North end of master bath has a stall shower. In the remodel, this area will be closet. 
