Holes & Wires & Bears Oh My!

There's lots happening around our house the past week or two! Sorry we haven't been able to catch up with blogging. I'll try and tell you a little about what's happening and also catch up on a loose end we left hanging.

Rewiring gets pretty dirty in the dining room!

The wiring project I told you about the last time I blogged (March 2) is moving right along thanks to the diligence and hard work of Ben and Kathy and sometimes they bring along their son Miles. The upstairs is completely done now. No more long orange extension cords running around the perimeter of every bedroom! Yeah! We will soon be ready to have an auction of all the extension cords and 3 prong "cheater" plug adapters. There is quite a pile. We are thankful to not have use for them anymore.

Now comes the first floor wiring. The biggest challenge is the dining room ceiling light. Since the ceiling joists run front to back rather than side to side, getting the wire fished up there got pretty dirty. But, Ben didn't even bat an eyelash. Four holes later he had it conquered. He is a very patient man. Now you can look at the picture again and realize that we really are NOT going to have 3 dining room lights! The forth hole was over by the wall.

Today as I left for MMS, Ben began patching those holes and Kathy and Miles started in on the front porch light. When I got home I found a lovely light at our back door! We've never had a light at the back door and it gets rather dark so we are soooo pleased that we will be able to see back there when it's dark! Ben will get the electric turned on to it next week. Doesn't it look great?

A back door light at last!

Now, for the unfinished bear business......uhm. That may not be what you think! Ha! While we were on vacation we blogged about a puzzle that we were working on. We've been reminded that we never did show you the finished puzzle. Well, here it is. A BEAR of a puzzle! And that it was.

The Bear Puzzle from Vacation

It truly was a bear of a puzzle. One of the harder ones that we've put together. Any guesses what part got finished last????