My Dad asks... "So is Jonathan a plumber or an electrician today."

Well in this very moment I would call him the cable guy. He just finished running and installing new phone lines and cable lines through the house. When we moved in we were the proud owners of one single solitary phone jack. Now we have phone, ethernet and cable running rampant through our home. Now we just need a TV and cable service to go along with those wires... not likely any time soon. This past weekend I would have called Jonathan more of a mason. He completed the plumbing in half of the basement and we poured cement over his handy work. While the cement has been curing he has re-wired the basement outlets and light switches and hard wired the fan in our bedroom. (The pull chain busted inside the fan. Due to our absence of A/C our only source of survival at night is ceiling fans. In order to keep the fans going and turn out the lights we were having to unscrew the 5 light bulbs. A little tricky for a short pregnant lady.) Following are a few pictures of his work in progress:

I would label this picture "Mr. Manual Labor." You see in order to completely redo the plumbing in the basement there was a lot of cement that had to be removed, old pipes taken out, old drains removed and filled and new lines put in. This is Mr. Jenson during one of MANY MANY MANY cement removal sessions. Notice the fine white coloring of his hair. This happens each time he puts in another "session." The fine cement ash spreads very quickly and thoroughly throughout the house. A few days ago I asked Adam to take something downstairs for me. He opened the basement door took a few steps down and said, "Mom, there's a cloud in the basement." Yep, that's a usual around our house. I used to dust. Until the cement removal ceases I think I shall start dating the blind slats each time I walk by and draw smily faces on the piano.

These are Jonathan's cave man tools that he retreats to his cave and makes lots of noise with. This particular session was the removal of cement in the closet under our stairs... yes there are pipes looming everywhere.

Through the fine haze you can see a patch of dirt that was once old plumbing covered in cement. After Mr. Manual Labor dug it all up and laid new drains and plumbing it will someday be the drain work for my new laundry room. I was really sad to discover that all of the plumbing work had been covered by dirt before I got a picture of it. Under this trench lies much blood sweat and tears. It was soon covered with cement.

This is a glimpse of the man cave.

This dazzling picture is just for kicks, and yet another project of a few weeks ago. Due to the removal of various walls and the design of our new bathroom we (I say we... Jonathan) had to relocate the clean out on our chimney stack. He cut a hole in the cinderblocks and moved the clean out door here. I missed how he did it, but he did a good job relocating the hole and filling in the old one. Just another day in the life of Mr. Jenson