103 degrees

For the past week we have been having a heat wave. Each day the temp has been climbing, however they (weather guys) said that we would get a small break Sat and Sun but the heat would go up beginning Monday. Well yesterday the temp hit 103 at my house, the hottest yet. I finally had enough and bought a portable A/C. It can only do so much but at least it keeps the temp in the house to a manageable low 80s. if we did not have it I am sure we would have been close to 90 inside.
One plus side is the humidity is in the low 20's and that makes for beautiful sunsets. Last night was a little different because we had some clouds mixed with some smoke from the wildfires burning in parts of the state. But it was still pretty cool.

Beach Bonfire

So last night we were invited to a bonfire at Mission Bay. It was nice to relax and enjoy good food and company. There was a party next to us and they had Mexican rice, carne asada, homemade salsa (made with habaneros), and re-fried beans. They kept giving us plates of food until I thought I would explode.

We stayed until the fireworks at Sea World. Then headed home to feed a hungry dog.

Totally Slacking

Ok, so it has been over a month since I posted, I've been busy!!! Well kinda. A lot of progress has been made on the kitchen and this weekend we are suppose to get the cabinets installed. From that point it should be a hop, skip, and a jump to the finish line. Below are the photos of all the work that has transpired in the last month. My brother flew out for 3 weeks and helped out immensely. Without his assistance I would still be laying tile.

The beginning, measuring out the "corner stone tile" everything will be based off it.

Work in progress, breakfast nook.

Grouting

Finished, looking from the b-fast nook through the kitchen into the mudroom/pantry

Hung our TV, FINALLY!!!

Hid all the cables behind the wall

I spent hours in the attic/sauna. this is looking down from the right of the chimney. Below is the built-in shelves that hold the TV equipment


This is looking down where the TV is hung. The brick is the chimney and the bottom of the photo is the wall where we hung the TV.