The Kangaroo Climber is currently in the ground floor level room formerly known as The Dog Room or The Mud Room. Either were very fitting names. We kicked the dogs outside entirely. Don’t worry they have the worlds largest dog house, our shed, at their disposal. We washed the mud stain dog silhouettes off the walls and cleaned the floors six times. We also resealed the tile floor, and unlike most times when I say, “we” but mean Kurt, I actually did this stuff.
This room was the coldest room in the house so I wanted a warm color. We painted the ceiling but kept it white and then we moved onto the walls. I realized, while changing out the ceiling vents, that five years ago I put filters over the vents. I don’t remember those filters being quite so thick. 
They started out as paper thin pieces of felt. They now had about a quarter inch of dirt on them and two inches of dog hair above that. Nasty doesn’t quite describe it. After removing the ‘filters’ the room warmed up A LOT, but I stuck with the color I picked out. After applying the new wall color we started calling the room The Mexican Hacienda.
This room leads into the laundry room so we also took to calling it The Mexican Laundromat. While Kurt threatened to paint the trim purple instead of staining it, I threatened to buy a front loading washing machine *pause for effect* in teal. After moving Kurt’s computer into this room, and because of the room’s proximity to the garage, and a bathroom within the laundry room it is currently known as The Man Cave. The man still doesn’t do laundry. I’ve tried.
The man is greatly disturbed by the Kangaroo Climber and says, “it’s not The Man Cave anymore. It’s The Kid Cave.” *insert boo-boo lip* As soon as the weather clears up again (probably this weekend) Sophia’s new toy will go outside as intended. It’ll go next to the 300 square foot patio Kurt worked on for three or four weekends.
I think you should leave it in there for a while–just for him! Lol
Christy – Oh you’re evil, I like it!
Kurt asked me if I thought Sophia would let him use the slide. I told him, “She may let you, but just once.” LOL
I like the colour it is nice and bright. I guess those filters must have been full of stuff to block the heat, now I suppose I had better go check mine, but I hope there are no spiders.
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When did Kurt put in that patio? I remember… um… mud. It’s all looking quite habitable. Nice work! Did you leave the texture on the walls?
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Smarmoofus – Yep Kurtie started the patio by removing the much smaller cement slab that was there, leveling it, and putting gravel down. He did that much in 2004. By the time you had come out here the weeds had started poking through the cloth weed barrier and the dogs were digging holes and tracking the gravel all over the yard and into the house. This year he moved the old gravel over, put down new weed barrier, smoothed the gravel back out, added more gravel, and finally laid the patio tiles. It took five years, but it looks fabulous!
So add to the task time table spread sheet – tiny bathroom = year and a half, 300 square foot patio = five years. 
Tell Kurt the patio looks great.
You just did.
Let the BBQ begin!!!
Henry? Henry? Henry! Where are you?!? Come look at the patio Kurt built!!! When are you going to do that? Hmmmm? lol
Susan Anderson – Kurt read this comment earlier today, chuckled, and said, “Sorry Henry”.