the sun has set-

We are on our way home now. The only thing that sucks more than rain, freezing rain. We will put a last post up in a couple days of all the before&after stuff. Thanks to you all.

love
sean & christina

We miss Max The Dog

So instead of making the dog live in a small motel room, we gave him back to Sean's parents. Now he runs in the fields of Yorkville, IL with his monster german shepard girlfriends. Here's to you Max The Dog we miss you.

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Inside the Red Coach

So we had a request for a view inside the Red Coach Inn before they visit. So here it is.......

This is the view from out the front door.

This is the feed and bean across the street. We are lucky it's not a slaughter house, Greeley has a slaughter house and the whole town smells like death, it's gross. There is a bunch of cows on one side and a bunch of trucks driving away on the other, gross.
When you walk in the door the sink is on the left, and the bathroom is behind the wall, toilet and shower! That's more than the ranch had.
Lovely shower, curtain and all. The shower curtain has one little special surprise..............
tweedy bird.
That's the front door, small table and chairs on the left and kitchen on the right.
The sticker came with room.
This is our stuff. And a real T.V. I got that painting in the back from a book/record/coffee shop. The owner is the artist, the place is called Mutiny Now. We liked it, and all records were $3.
We've decorated some, these are old glass bottles that the mason pulled out from under the house. And the glass door knobs that Sean bought me for my birthday, cause I want all glass knobs in my house some day. Isn't he great.
The train art was supplied by the Red Coach. Hey, Ben and Paul that big bottle of wine is full of gloog from Thanksgiving. I will say that it didn't go over as well then as it did with you guys .
This is our kitchen. It has a mini-fridge and microwave on the left and our sink/stove.
That's Sean's new stove-top percolator, he's very excited about it.
This is our bed/couch.
And yes this is our Charlie brown Christmas tree. We went thrift shopping and got this baby with lights already on it and all the fixings for about $10. Merry Christmas.

So now that you have seen it want to come? (Cathy I know you won't) Thanks all we will see most of you soon.

P.S. We looked into the Field Museum for the wedding, any thoughts?

Love Sean & Christina

The Red Coach Inn

So I don't think any of you have gotten to see the motel that we now live in. Only Ben and Paul got to experience it first hand. But if you want to come and visit we have an extra double bed in our kitchenette suite.



We are at the house right now and since I am currently unemployed I can't help with any work. I'm going to paint the house whether Sean likes it or not, that's fun stuff. It was really foggy this morning, and Wednesday is going to have a high of 20 degrees, with morning temps at 0 yikes! So like I said if you want to come and visit we have a spare bed.

Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving.

love Sean and Christina

It's My Birthday!!!!

Yup, it's my birthday and Sean threw me a party in the barn with some gro-col locals.....


and he got me some first rate clowns.....................................



to top it all off we had a magic show too!

then we flew away in a hot air balloon shaped like a birthday cake. can you see me waving?


Just kidding, well it is actually my birthday. we are about an hour outside of omaha-ha-ha. home for thanksgiving! then back to winter on the plains. the house is coming along very well. new floors next week, ooh! we are living in the lovely red coach inn, right next to doug kershaw's bayou house. i didn't know who he was till we went there(did you know that his songs were in space). hope everyone has a wonderful holiday.

love christina + sean

...but wait!

in a strange turn of events, our situation has been re-negotiated, and things are kinda back on track. here's the new deal:

christina's in chicago right now for a few days for some family/friendly stuff. she'll be back this weekend.

we're going to work our tails off for about a week between her return and thanksgiving, but this time we'll be back at the fabulous red coach inn in lucerne, commuting to and from the job. it'll be a little strange.

we'll drive home for thanksgiving, leaving here probably on monday the 20th (christina's BIRTHDAY!!!) and rolling into the IL state on tues evening.

we'll drive BACK out here to live in the motel for a couple (3 tops) weeks to oversee the last of the work happening (flooring, cabinets, last bit of plumbing and carpentry) and leave the house in as done a state as we can manage.

but we'll be back in chicago absolutely positively no later than dec 23 (colin's BIRTHDAY!!!).

i know, i know. like a rollercoaster, this blog. we're generally pretty happy about this turn of events, at least the getting to see the job completed aspect. sorry to get everybody's hopes up for a more timely return, but many many thanks for all the comments and encouragement the last few days.

xoxo
sean

(ps christine i miss the hell out of you! come back soon...)

no worries....

so we thought that you should all know that in spite of being disappointed about not finishing the job, we are happy about our choice to walk away now. we are leaving the house in good shape and it will be very easy for whoever walks in to finish the job. the only things left to do that are major are already contracted out and waiting to be scheduled. we had a very good time and have been grateful for the experience. even more so we are happy to get back to our families, life and wedding plans. thank you all for keeping us company on this blog while we were out in the middle0fn0where.

love -
sean and christina