Oh, um, p.s., we moved.
Our closing date on both houses was February 25. Our new house is in Lucas, almost exactly 10 minutes door-to-door from here to our "old house". We were able to start painting this house on the 23rd, and to start moving some things in on the 24. Two of our friends came over and helped us paint rooms, and do enamel in the office(the office enamel had been dark green), and even paint the office's ceiling! All of these ceilings are popcorn, so painting them is/will be no small task.
The boys' room is brown again, but this brown is lighter than what was in our other house. The girls chose yellow for their(our?) room, and the parents got a taupey color, like this: http://makeup-color.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/taupe.jpg
Mom's office is the same color that it was in our "old" house, a relaxing green slightly darker than this: http://www.agrob-butchtal.de/plural/en/grafik/farben/softgruen.gif
The house is of course smaller than our other one-it is a one-story and it was built in the 70's- but we have an acre and a half in our yard, which is an acre and a quarter more than we used to have! There is also 7 acres for sale behind us, and we are hoping...
Here is the house:
We still have our 2 guinea pigs, 1 rabbit and cat, and the previous owners left their 2 barn cats here, too, so we adopted them. I have never personally seen them, but some of the family have caught glimpses once in a while.
We haven't done as much work inside the house as we have out doors. Inside, we have painted, replaced electrical plug-ins, replaced a door, and created more walking space in the attic. But OUTSIDE...
Planted 13 fruit trees
Made (thank you, Dad) and planted 8 garden beds
Planted several raspberry and grape plants
Cut down 6 trees and 3 or 4 bushes from the front yard(THANKS, Grandma and Grandpa T!)
Finished fencing in the pasture
Lined the pasture with goat fencing
We're excited for fall, because with the house came 2 pecan trees, 1 fig tree and one pear tree, all already producing.
We have so many plans for this house, from remodeling the kitchen and extending the pantry to painting the brick fireplace and scraping all the popcorn off the ceilings and spraying them white.
Needless to say, some of those things (like remodeling the kitchen, for example) are a little more long term. :)
Our closing date on both houses was February 25. Our new house is in Lucas, almost exactly 10 minutes door-to-door from here to our "old house". We were able to start painting this house on the 23rd, and to start moving some things in on the 24. Two of our friends came over and helped us paint rooms, and do enamel in the office(the office enamel had been dark green), and even paint the office's ceiling! All of these ceilings are popcorn, so painting them is/will be no small task.
The boys' room is brown again, but this brown is lighter than what was in our other house. The girls chose yellow for their(our?) room, and the parents got a taupey color, like this: http://makeup-color.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/taupe.jpg
Mom's office is the same color that it was in our "old" house, a relaxing green slightly darker than this: http://www.agrob-butchtal.de/plural/en/grafik/farben/softgruen.gif
The house is of course smaller than our other one-it is a one-story and it was built in the 70's- but we have an acre and a half in our yard, which is an acre and a quarter more than we used to have! There is also 7 acres for sale behind us, and we are hoping...
Here is the house:
We still have our 2 guinea pigs, 1 rabbit and cat, and the previous owners left their 2 barn cats here, too, so we adopted them. I have never personally seen them, but some of the family have caught glimpses once in a while.
We haven't done as much work inside the house as we have out doors. Inside, we have painted, replaced electrical plug-ins, replaced a door, and created more walking space in the attic. But OUTSIDE...
Planted 13 fruit trees
Made (thank you, Dad) and planted 8 garden beds
Planted several raspberry and grape plants
Cut down 6 trees and 3 or 4 bushes from the front yard(THANKS, Grandma and Grandpa T!)
Finished fencing in the pasture
Lined the pasture with goat fencing
We're excited for fall, because with the house came 2 pecan trees, 1 fig tree and one pear tree, all already producing.
We have so many plans for this house, from remodeling the kitchen and extending the pantry to painting the brick fireplace and scraping all the popcorn off the ceilings and spraying them white.
Needless to say, some of those things (like remodeling the kitchen, for example) are a little more long term. :)
