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Steve and Shea's House

Unbelievable. I just can't get over it. More than 5500 sq ft. On top of a hill. The whole house has either tile or hardwood floors.

They're very happy, and I can see why. 5 bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms. High ceilings, 3 car garage, the works. I can't go on. I have home envy.

The "End" is in sight...

Well, we've nearly finished with our housing upgrades. We installed the new linoleum in the guest bathroom last night, after I replaced the sink.

The old sink was enameled steel, and was rusting and old looking. I've never been a big fan of steel sinks so I replaced it with a nice Kohler ceramic one. That and a new faucet that has a higher clearance and swivels, it's really nice.
Rhonda was installing the second half of the linoleum, laying and spreading the glue when I noticed her underwear sticking up out of her pants. She had glue on her hands, so I decided it was "wedgie time"! Boy, did she get mad. First time I've given a wedgie to anyone since I was about 12. Hilarious.
She did a great job today caulking and cleaning up, and we've only got to paint the two guestrooms. We're ahead of schedule, under budget, and everything is looking really nice and clean. I'm proud of us. And of the wedgie!

More housework/painting...

Rhonda's been working her tail off here, painting the living room and hallway. We chose an off white to cover the oddly out of fashion "Martha Stewart" colors what have been the decor for the past 4 or 5 years.

The rooms look fresh and larger with the newer whiter paint and I think once we clean up we'll be very happy with the outcome. The flooring is in one bathroom, as well as the trim and looks really nice. The guest bath is next, and we have a new sink and flooring for that room. I'm trying to work chores in on my off time. We've been able to accomplish a lot in a short period of time and at a very reasonable cost.

New bathroom flooring...

Rhonda and I just spent a couple of hours laying out and cutting our new linoleum flooring. Looks nice, but we're going to wait until tomorrow to glue it down.

The old linoleum was ghastly, and actually the master bathroom was painted hot pink when I moved in. I immediately painted over it in blue, and Rhonda has been having fits trying to prime and paint it, I think she painted 4 or 5 coats of paint over 2 or 3 coats of primer, just to cover the blue. We chose a nice off white/yellow color, it's called "pumpkinseed". After Rhonda got the painting done and pulled the trim off, which she's painted white, along with the bathroom window/ledge, we pulled the shower door and rebuilt/cleaned it and then had to pull the toilet out to place the new floor down. We had also replaced the sink, the old one was a steel/enamel that was rusty, so we pulled that and put in a ceramic one...looks nice. We'll post a photo as soon as it's done.

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This is Hanvey's.com...

This is the Hanvey's.com Homepage. To go to Hanvey's Homebrew Website, click on the link at the right. To read older messages posted by Phil or Rhonda, click on the title of the message under "Archives".

This is going to be the homepage from now on. I WILL ADD LINKS to the pages you all know and love, "Family", "Phil's Old Website", etc. very soon. Please be patient, but please ENJOY the messages on this page. They're sorted by date, with the most recent post at the top of the page, and are archived monthly. You can go back and read archived messages by clicking on the "Month" hyperlink. I'll also try to figure out how to organize archived messages by "Category", so that those of you who need instructions can click on "Instructional", and those of you who want to read about our travels can click on "Travels", etc. YOU'LL LOVE IT! It's like a living website. IT'S ALIVE, IT'S AAALLLIIIIIVE!!!

Yes, you're being redirected.

When you go to http://www.hanveys.com, after 1 second, the page changes to http://www.hanveys.com/blog.

That's because the program I'm using to create the pages, Movable Type, won't allow me to create an updatable page in the root directory. I know it can be done, but perhaps due to the way the program was originally installed, in a subdirectory, or due to permission settings on the server, or even a bug in the program. I tried moving the index.html to the root directory, which worked, but MT wouldn't update it when I made a change or new entry. I worked with my ISP for about a half an hour trying to see if the permissions were wrong, but they aren't, at least from what we can see. The rebuilt writes to the subdirectory .../hanveys/blog, but not to .../hanveys. Oh, well, I searched around the web for a while until I found a meta command that allows me to redirect the page www.hanveys.com to www.hanveys.com/blog and reset my program to work the way it was originally. Good to go!

Introducing the new Hanvey's.com

This is the new look of Hanvey's.com. Notice the links and archives? Each posted message on this page will be archived for future reference.

This way I can explain any questions about this site once and anyone else with the same question can refer to the Instructional Archives for answers. This should prove to be interesting, as either Rhonda or I can post messages to this page from any computer anywhere, and anyone reading the posts can publish comments which will be attached to each post. Remember, whatever you write will be publicly displayed on this page and is fair game for anyone else to comment on so, write carefully.

New looks, more info...

I hope everyone has had a chance to check out our weblog. As you can see, it got a facelift, and I hope to make some additional improvements, as if our postings weren't interesting enough.

We're still very busy around the house, it seems like I look forward to going to work to get some rest. Everywhere we turn there's some detail that needs attention. We got a phone call from the USDA in Olympia today, said they needed some additional information about the pets. I have a buyer for my beer refrigerator, I can't use it in England because of the voltage - I know, I could use a transformer, but the electricity would be too expensive doing that - and I didn't want to store it. It made sense to sell it, and it went fast! I am taking the Brew Magic, that only uses electricity when I'm making beer, and I will probably just bottle the beer instead of trying to set up another beer fridge. Bob Sulier, Pres of SABCO in Toledo, OH (where I bought my Brew Magic), sent me an e-mail today. I had been looking around for a replacement heater element, which Ace Hardware didn't have (not an exact match, anyway), and so I wrote Bob and asked if they would sell me a replacement. He wrote me back and said to consider it a going away gift for promoting the brewery (I get e-mails inquiring about it all the time, and usually c/c Bob when I reply), and to expect it UPS in a few days. Pretty cool, huh? They've been really awesome at SABCO, and how many times do you get to talk to the President of a company when you call? Well, I'll try to keep these short, and I have an idea about posting short messages about specific topics so that if/when you all have a question about anything you can check the archives. More on that later.

I'M BAAACK!

Hello, everyone. I'm finally back online and plan to use this weblog to keep you all informed of all that is happening to me and my wife, Rhonda. It's been a long time but I still think this will be a great forum for spreading the family news. I'll try to be more faithful, and will have Rhonda log in and provide news as well.

We're leaving for England soon, and have spent a lot of time fixing the house up. We've painted the exterior, cleaned the roof, replaced the gutters, trimmed the trees, cleaned up a lot of clutter, replaced our master bathroom sink, painted both bathrooms and are preparing the paint the bedrooms and living room. Quite a lot of our "stuff" has been sold or thrown out, as we're trying to lighten our load.
I'll pass this off to Rhonda, as I'm sure she wants to post an entry, and include some news for her family. I'll come back for another entry tonight.

Buster and I got a limit of ducks our first time out this season, not opening day, since I work weekends now, but the first Monday after opening Saturday. What a great hunt! I had six in the blind within 40 minutes, and was all done less than an hour later. Here's a photo:

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