Roses Roses everywhere

While Dave slaves away on the wine cellar, Carol has been enjoying her garden. The first blooming of roses is my favorite time of year.

Wine cellar progress and more

Work continues on the wine cellar. studs went up and then the insulation 8 inches thick!

Hire a stud to mount the plywood! Then tell him the electrical outlets aren't in the right place.
Then crawl under the other side of the basement wall and convince your best friend to help you lift and scoot a ???? pound refrigeration unit several feet.

Have a door made with a beautiful oak and grape bunch etched in the double pane glass.

Stain door and convince same friend to come help you lift and hang the very heavy door. Please note the light shining inside the cellar so you might see the beautiful etched bunch of grapes. Now note there is not a door knob on the CLOSED door. Now go upstairs and admit to the stud builder what you did. He can fix anythng. Install around the lovely curved wall corner a floor to ceiling window. Note my artistic photography looking thru the window to see the door and etching. This will be the view as I sit outside the cellar sipping my wine.
Just keep remembering this is what you are working to replace. One day. Sooon.

Wine Cellar on its way

HOW TO BUILD A WINE CELLAR

1. Make more wine than fits in your refrigerator.

2. Have on hand a perfectly good unused basement

3. Get a laser leveler/pointer from family for Christmas

Dave demonstrating how to use laser leveler thingy

Note in far background 1955 Jukebox and large red curved objects.

These are cleverly to be included in a wine cellar motif.

4. put up some studs ( not the kind I had in mind),

then plastic impervious liner and then big thick insulation

For the technically inclined the insulation is rigid foam

with a rating of 23.5 to 24. ( I don't know 23 what)

Studs up, insulation in and I am planning the decor.

oh forgot it has to have something to hook the racks to.
Then drywall then electricity oh my oh my

To get an idea of placement in basement.

Picture is from entrance to basement

looking toward front of house.

Note the jukebox, and large Dupar's booth

have been moved and are in the general area

where any time now I will relax and drink my wine.

Step 5

A few more things to be done and more pictures as they occur.

Easter Sunday @ Grandparents

After chilly 6am sunrise service we returned home to a delicious 1 1/2 hour later breakfast.
Baked eggs florentine/benedict in english muffin cups, bacon/sausage/hamkabobs basted withBBQ sauce. and fresh fruit platter.

Note the old Easter Bunny still lives.

I mean the little stuffed blue one not me.

Sharon & Kurt's wedding

Dave can move mountains but I haven't conquered blogging


the coffin hoist holds

The engine hoist is moved into position

It clears the fence

Patience wears thin as we capture a Kodak moment on our Nikon.
the rock was dropped into the perfect spot. Only 3 more to go.

moving mountains

Give Dave a problem such as "you want the large boulders moved where?!" and he is bound to do it. Or if you prefer the title could be so "that is how they built the pyramids."




First you gotta have some chain, then some kind of hook and a coffin hoist.
Doesn't everyone have a coffin hoist in their garage?

Of course the engine hoist is essential and just as available in the average household.