it's a snow day!

...and the snow continues to fall. See Cat's blog for more, but I think we're all happy for another day off. I will go drive one of the Subarus later though, I didn't buy all-wheel-drive to park them all day (even if I'm not going to work).

big moon

On the way home last night Zibby and I stopped to look at the full moon and some cows. She climbed in my coat and asked all about the cows in the field. When we turned around to get back in the car, we saw an orange sunset. Good times.

DONE.

All we have to do now is move back in and put all of our stuff away. I promise not to complain.

from new upstairs window

this old house?

(way) before…

we move back in a week?

(hint: don't sprint picture mail to blogger)

since I haven't put up any in a while...

These pictures are actually more than a week old by now, but newer than what has already been posted. They’ve finished most of the interior painting and have even started finishing the hardwood floors. We’re on schedule to move back in on the 16^th. We are more than ready.

stone on new front porch

watermelon in the bathtub!

paint colors

The light was bad, but this is the trim color.

fun and the house

We really can't wait to get back into the house. Apartment living makes us want to go anywhere but the apartment to have fun. Yesterday we went to the opening of the new RDU terminal. I'm not sure we'd have done that otherwise, but it was really fun, esp. since Cate and PIC met us there.. Then we went to chick-fil-a for lunch.

The house picture is the new front porch with it's columns in place. Once again, it's a new feature that looks like it should have been there all along.

new color!

this kid has style

Thanks to the Dianaverse for the shoes.

stone for the front steps

more pictures on a thursday

Pink stuff everywhere and bricks going in to raise up our front porch. The bricks will get covered with stone. I can't wait! I want my house back!

house looks good

Siding and roof done...

saturday photos

New front porch...

Siding looks good...

View from inside the new living room...

before and after

Ok, not really before or after. A before shot would really show the nice deck that used to be there, and we aren’t at after yet, but at least with the windows in you can see where it’s going. (This post was sent by email).

what I doing?

Well, I guess that's enough not blogging for a while. I guess I can use the excuse that I'm not currently in the woods. We're having an addition put on our house along with a few more improvements we've wanted to do since we bought the place. We aren't living in the house through all of it, we've moved into an apartment until it all gets done. Not being there has really helped Alan the Builder to work fast, so he'll be done sooner than expected. That's a very good thing- I want my house back.

If you've been looking at the only part of this site that has changed in a few months, Jim's very nice cell phone pic gizmo, you've probably already noticed our little construction project at the house. I need to add bigger photos to this site as the house changes, there must be some way to do that for lazy people like me that can't be bothered to log into blogger. Time to learn to email a blog... or get Jim to write me a bigger gizmo?

i came back

I guess I've been away awhile. But, as eBaby would say, "I came back."

This time with another project, or a project for a project. Many years ago, we built ourselves some wooden kayaks. When we moved to Mayberry, the best place we had to store them was under our deck. I built a platform with 4 wheels to roll the boats under the deck to keep them protected and out of the sun. When we moved to the current house, we finally had a garage, but the boats stayed under the deck because of the way the garage door was installed (or, actually, the way the garage itself was installed).

Somewhat connected to the next big thing, we are planning an addition to the house. But to build this addition, we have to demolish the deck. This left the boat furniture with no place to live. However, that's not bad news because I've had my eye on a new fancy garage door opener (geeks only) for a while now just hoping the old one would break. Installation of the Rolls-Royce of garage door openers freed up the entire garage ceiling to hang the boats. We should've done this a long time ago.

I won't give any details on the home addition yet, I'll need something else to blog about in a few months. Perhaps I'll attract more fiscal analysts by then.