The Project Up Above That Felt Like Down Under

We were blessed to have Phil's parents in town for the past ten days.
Fortunately for us, we had two extra sets of hands and lots of extra LOVE.
Unfortunately for them, it was no vacation.

 As I've mentioned before, when Phil and his dad get together it becomes project central.  They accomplished more in ten days than we have in the past ten weeks.  The biggest project was re-doing all of the duct work in our attic.

 I had NO IDEA what that entailed until our house was turned upside down for two days.

 "Command Central"
This is where they reconstructed the new duct work.

This is all of the old duct work that was stripped from the attic.

As Isaac kept saying, "Big Mess!"

There were ten vents that needed to be reconstructed from the inside out.  

This is the inside of one of the old lines...full of mold.

These were original from when the house was built.  Lovely!

Phil spent two full days (15 hours on Friday) in our Florida attic.  It was 112 degrees at one point, and I was seriously afraid for his health.  His eyes were nearly swollen shut, and his fingers were like sausages.  He joined me in bed (at my sister's house down the street) at 1:00 AM and was back at it the next morning by 7:00 AM.

I'm so thankful that I have a husband and father-in-law that are not only knowledgeable on how to do these kind of projects, but they are also willing.  We are now comfortably settled back into our nicely air-conditioned home.

One of the other big projects was cleaning up some trees after a huge storm that blew through our neighborhood.

 This is at my sister's house, 

and Phil once again risked his life for the sake of a project.

 He told me to dial "91" and just be ready to push the extra "1" when I heard him scream.

 This storm also created a few other projects: replacing the garage door opener that was zapped, fixing a phone line that was zapped, and replacing the Internet router that was zapped.  What do we expect when we live in the "The Lightning Capital of the World"

Now...because all of those other pictures were kind of depressing...

Here's Clare Bear on her last day of school!

 Hooray!

Isaac is totally obsessed with his cars right now.  He lines them up one by one...over and over.  He will notice if one is facing the wrong direction, he will straighten up anything that gets out of line, and then he will move the line to another location in the house.