The Legacy Continues!

By chance, I found grandpa Kalo's campaign pin on August 5th, the day of the primary. I knew it was a good sign.

Now that everything is final, I just wanted to say, "We're proud of you, Dad!!!"

Wonderful Surprise!

Saturday morning, Roger surprised us by showing up with his friend George to hang drywall! We had just made the decision that we didn't think we wanted to tackle the drywall ourselves, and were searching for a crew to do it for us. Roger and George took care of that!

After about a day and a half of work over the weekend, the drywall is about 85% hung upstairs!

George and Roger are going to work on it again today after they get off work. With Gage starting school again today, this surprise couldn't have come at a better time! Life is good. :)

Time off to campaign!

Gage, Emily and I took the weekend off to head to Dighton to help dad campaign - so much fun! Vote Don Hineman, August 5th!

http://hinemanforkansas.org/

It was SOOO great to have a break from the house and get to see the family - we miss you guys!!

As for the house, recently a group of Gage and Ted's friends came out for the day to help pour the safe room. What a crazy job! Below - Aaron, Travis and David pouring concrete into the frame. Luckily, the frame held strong - yippee! We should be safe from any storm in our solid concrete room, reinforced with a maze of steel rebar.

Our safe room will be complete with the solid steel door from the old Lane County jail (thanks to dad!)

Speaking of reclaimed and rustic interiors, we are finally working on our "finish work"! Gage and I worked on the second story ceiling this week.

This is sure to be the most rustic part of our house. We cleaned up all of the metal panels (but made sure to leave the rustic patina intact) from Roger's old barn and completed it with the fir boards from the barn, which we plained down to expose the new, yet still rustic-looking wood.

Gage wanted it so that when you look up to the ceiling, it really feels like you are looking at a barn roof. Very authentic! I have to admit, I had my reservations about going this rustic, but it looks awesome! Can't wait to start work on the walls (but not looking forward to finishing the insulation - yuck!)