Roving Rolphs: A Rolph Activities Update by Kayley Rolph

This week has gone by really fast, like, one minute I'm at the beach on Sunday then I'm working on Wednesday. We are still very behind schedule but we are all scrambling to catch up. This week Sarah and I finished all the painting of the lumber, we finished installing the deck railings, Bob finished tiling the master bath, Mommy finished painting the back bathroom and one of the back bedrooms.

Sarah and I have been painting all the deck railing parts and lumber all week and we finally finished today! We're done! This is great! No more paint spattered clothing or hair or legs! We are free of the stubbornly clingy nuisance that is known as paint! Ok. Calming down. As you can probably see I wasn't very fond of painting, but let us not dwell on the past. On the bright side, Mommy is really exited because she has now repainted three quarters of the house exterior and the neighbors are really liking it!

On Thursday Sarah, Mia and Daddy began to install the railings. The deck railings come up really fast! They started midway through work on Thursday and are already finished! Installing the railings was a group effort. Sarah and I painted the pickets that Mia cut. Then Daddy, Sarah, and Mia glued and nailed them to rails and then put them on the posts. Zander helped on Saturday to finish it of. This took only two and a half days, which is great because most of the projects that are like in size tend to take around five days with smaller groups and some haven't been finished yet.

Mia and I haven't started the flooring yet, even though, we planned to at the beginning of the week. The window repair got in the way, so we are now even more behind schedule. The flooring is supposed to be really easy to install, especially compared to the Trex decking, so it shouldn't take to long, but with us you never know. flooring could take a week of more for all we know. We hope to be done with everything in the master and back bedrooms by next week so we can move into them.

Mia officially finished the windows on Wednesday. Since we were really behind, she had to move on to cutting the deck railings right away. Mia cut at least 40 pickets in like three hours. The window repair took a lot longer than expected because we had to wait on new window hardware and glass to replace the broken stuff. That took an extra three days. The windows have been really dragging us all down, but on the bright side, we can now see out of the house through clean, kinda new windows!

Mommy's mission this week was finishing up the painting and Bondoing in the back bedrooms. The termite damage back there is a nightmare, so by the time she is done it will be mostly made of Bondo and structural paint. At the moment it smells pretty funky back there from all the chemicals, paint, and Bondo. She has become quite obsessive over this, she works late and she never stops thinking about work, I think its all the Bondo she's been inhaling. thinking about work, I think its all the Bondo she's been inhaling.

This week we all worked really hard to finish the stuff we started and the house is starting to look kinda livable. Next week we plan on finishing the flooring and moving into the back bedroom to begin phase two of he master plan, insert evil laugh ;). Bye.

By Kayley Sienna Rolph