SEPTEMBER - A TIME TO REMEMBER 9/1-30/2013

September found us busy, busy, busy again!  We had more work on the house in Medford and then Ann flew to New York to babysit Jed and Kate's son for a week while they did some movie making things.  The first half of the week she was gone, Wayne tackled a problem he had seen on the north side of the Gold Beach house.  There was evidence of water damage, so Wayne removed siding and sheeting to find the problem.

Working on some home made scaffolding was interesting.  And with Ann not home, he had to make extra sure he did not fall because there was nobody to take him to the hospital!

After removing all the damaged siding, sheeting and other materials, he then painted the all the new and old materials with a yucky smelling compound that prevented any other damage from taking place or spreading. Then he primed all the materials with an oil base paint before replacing them to further protect them.

Then after re-sheeting, the new lap siding was installed....

...primed and painted.

The first coat was not good enough, so a second coat was added later.

Bobby was Wayne's constant companion, but he was not very good at pounding nails.

Then came the work on the inside to repair the cause of the damage.  The refrigerator ice maker source had a small leak in it, which had leaked inside the wall.  The refrigerator was pulled and...

...the source revealed.   After further removal and replacement of the damaged sheet rock and studding, that nasty smelling chemical was painted on everything.  Yuck!!!  The house smelled terrible.  Wayne opened up the house windows and doors, ran fans and hoped it would all be cleared out before Ann came home from New York!!

Wayne, after spending years watching his brother in law do sheetrock work has become pretty good at it and texturing.

After that project was done, Wayne headed to Medford to help his brother with a few projects

and pick up Ann at the airport from New York.  We stayed another week to attend our niece's wedding and help Ann's brother and family move from their old house.
The wedding was well orchestrated by all our niece's family.  Here is the happy couple, Gary and Sarah!

This is Ann's brother, John's boys.  L -R; Tim, Andy, Pete, Johnnie, Matt and John.

Wayne's brother, Cliff and his wife, Linda, sided by Ann and Wayne at Sarah and Gary's wedding.

The bride's entourage; Back - L-R, Anna,Marcie, Monique  Front L-R, Robin, Katie, Hailey

The judge that married them.  This is the only wedding we have ever been to where the person performing the ceremony was an hour late.  There was some mumbling going on about him.

 The ceremony began.

Dad brought in the bride.

And in the end.....the ceremony took place. There was good company and good fun.  It is good being family!

Then Ann and Wayne began a week more of helping John and Karen have a yard sale and move. 

40-45  pickup loads and a few trailer loads and we had all their stuff moved or sold!

John and Karen's daughter, Anna, was our resident ram rod and Craig's List expert.  Here we are taking a break for lunch.

Big Brother and Little Sister in Big Brother's new home!

In the end, we finished out the month with a meal together at Home Town Buffett with John and Karen, Cliff and Linda, us and Cliff and Linda's daughter, and family before we left for our home in Gold Beach. 

We found our home in Gold Beach in good repair when we arrived and it was oh so good to sleep in our own bed!!  Bobby, after about a month of staying at 4 different houses and four different back yards and tons of little kids and adults to keep in line, ran around in circles on our living room rug when we got home and then collapsed.  He slept 12 hours that first night home!

We hope October is a quiet, relaxing month at home with no major activities in our life.