On Sunday Ryan built us a fire pit in the back yard – down near the lake.  The weather is exactly perfect for it and we’ll be able to burn our leaves and brush this fall.  It’s in a flat spot too so we can sit around it for an evening fire when we want!

On Monday Ryan and his dad had the day off so they started working on rebuilding the chimney!  What a beautiful job they did!  It looks so nice and once we get a new fireplace insert we can have indoor fires this winter too!

We also got the windows all ordered for the house, they will take at least 4 weeks so we won’t get them all installed this fall but hopefully some of the upstairs ones will get put in so we can do the indoor renovations upstairs over the winter!

We are working on a heating/cooling plan, Ryan’s cousin is going to do that for us.  We are moving away from geothermal as an option after pricing it out and seeing the return on investment in the range of 30 years – which is how long before you have to replace portions of the system – not worth it 🙁  But we have a few other options and once we make some decisions we will share!