More pictures of the trip to follow later this week.
Showing posts with label Opa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opa. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2011
Remembering Opa
We spent a wonderful week in Door County & Green Bay Wisconsin. While in Door County we visited Opa's memorial plot. Opa (Robert Otto Jabbusch) was my Dad's Dad. Isaac's middle name, Otto, was a tribute to him, so it was very special to go and say our "hello's".
Before Opa died, he made a prediction that I would have a blond boy. Well, Opa... I guess you were right!
More pictures of the trip to follow later this week.
More pictures of the trip to follow later this week.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Week #6: Drywall, etc! (tribute to Opa)
This week/weekend's accomplishments:
(1) We finished hanging the insulation in the bedrooms (we were waiting on the electrical, which also got done this week!)
(2) We started sanding the interior doors and found layers upon layers of multi-colored paint. The picture below gives you a sense of the "Neapolitan ice cream" look of the layers. The previous owners, like us I suppose, were not afraid of color! Christina's good friend Melba came over Saturday and helped with the sanding -- always in high fashion!-- thanks Melbs!
(3) And the BIG HOORAY of the weekend... the walls started to come up!!! We took a trip to [a very busy and chaotic] home improvement store early Saturday morning to buy 36 sheets of 4x8 sheetrock (1/2" thick). It is so weird/wonderful to see walls again!
Nick M. was a big help in hanging the walls with Eric (thanks Nick!). Here is Eric measuring cuts of the drywall.
The first sheet is UP!!!
It started off a little "rookie" but got more precise and 'professional' with each sheet.
They both seemed to know what they were doing ;)
We went to a bbq today to celebrate a friend's first triathlon (go Heather!) and Eric continues to work on hanging the drywall in the front bedroom as I type. We are working on getting the big pieces up first, and then going back to the smaller/custom areas.
We also appreciated Beth & Chad for stopping by on Saturday with flowers--- we were very sad to hear that Christina's Opa (grandpa) died Friday from Pancreatic cancer. Above is a picture of Christina asking him to dance at our wedding a year ago. Please keep us in your thoughts -- he was an amazing Opa and friend and we miss him already.
(1) We finished hanging the insulation in the bedrooms (we were waiting on the electrical, which also got done this week!)
(2) We started sanding the interior doors and found layers upon layers of multi-colored paint. The picture below gives you a sense of the "Neapolitan ice cream" look of the layers. The previous owners, like us I suppose, were not afraid of color! Christina's good friend Melba came over Saturday and helped with the sanding -- always in high fashion!-- thanks Melbs!
(3) And the BIG HOORAY of the weekend... the walls started to come up!!! We took a trip to [a very busy and chaotic] home improvement store early Saturday morning to buy 36 sheets of 4x8 sheetrock (1/2" thick). It is so weird/wonderful to see walls again!
Nick M. was a big help in hanging the walls with Eric (thanks Nick!). Here is Eric measuring cuts of the drywall.
The first sheet is UP!!!
It started off a little "rookie" but got more precise and 'professional' with each sheet.
They both seemed to know what they were doing ;)
We went to a bbq today to celebrate a friend's first triathlon (go Heather!) and Eric continues to work on hanging the drywall in the front bedroom as I type. We are working on getting the big pieces up first, and then going back to the smaller/custom areas.
We also appreciated Beth & Chad for stopping by on Saturday with flowers--- we were very sad to hear that Christina's Opa (grandpa) died Friday from Pancreatic cancer. Above is a picture of Christina asking him to dance at our wedding a year ago. Please keep us in your thoughts -- he was an amazing Opa and friend and we miss him already.
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