Since we began this project, we’ve always said that we were going to have a big demolition party and let the kids ride their bikes and scooters in the house and write on the walls. Last night we had our gig and, in short, they’ve turned the place into a squatters hollow.
Some key shots:
Masters [...]
Well, we had the infamous yard sale this weekend. We had a great showing based on the Craigs List post and I think that between all of our friends, the property made about $2,000. Fortunately, our neighbor had a big estate sale on the same day which drove a lot of traffic.
The day [...]
…Beans don’t burn on the grill.
Well, it’s not quite a piece of the pie and it certainly isn’t in the sky, but we are offically residents of the Archstone Willow Glen apartment complex. We were very plesantly surprised. The place is clean, it feels secure and, most of all, it seems very quiet. [...]
We received our Personal On Demand Storage (PODS) unit this weekend. It’s a good thing that my Tetris skillz are tiz-ight cause we gotta jam a bunch of ackward shaped things into this big box. We got picnic benches and rocking chairs and all sorts of things that we want to keep, but [...]
We’ve had a huge birch tree in front of our house for the last 50 years or so. While it is a great tree, it unfortunately was going to be in the middle of our new living room. We can’t have a giant tree blocking the TV, so it had to go.
The whole process seems [...]
Wow!!! Wouldn’t that be cool if our house some how ended up looking like that? A’las, probably not. Too much to clean anyway.
We went window shopping (as in actual windows, not just looking at things we can’t buy) last night and I fear that we are going to blow through our first budgeted item. At [...]
Me.
Spent the weekend preparing the backyard for laying the foundation by taking down an orange tree and a lemon tree. Working on getting an after photo now. The orange tree (right tree in pic) is more or less where our master bedroom is going. The lemon tree, is where our back patio is going to [...]
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