Sunday, April 21, 2013

Home ownership continues!

We have been busy little bees and I think we are getting settled into a routine.  We are completely unpacked except for that one closet that will probably be in every house we live in for the rest of our lives.  You know that closet.  I am sure you have one or two.  It is full of that stuff that you really should have gone through before you moved and pitched most if not everything in there.  At the time of the move, however, you found yourself completely lacking in energy or motivation and so you just threw it in the nearest box and called it a day vowing to go through it as soon as you got everything else unpacked.  Yeah...best intentions.

So far we have:
1. Painted the living room.
2. Painted the dining room.
3. Plainted the hallway.
(thanks to my awesome father-in-law who happily came down and helped us blitz the house before we moved in)
4. Ripped up the carpet in those rooms.
5. Laid down new thresholds for the bed rooms.
6. Ripped off the wood paneling in the 3rd bedroom.
7. Re-patched a poor patch job in the living room floor left by an old floor vent.
8. Hung curtains in the living room and temporary ones in the dining room (will be making new ones for the dining room)
9. Started painting the master bedroom
10. Converted master bathroom tub into a shower...sorta? Funny story to come on that.
11. Skim coated the nail holes and the seam lines in the 3rd bedroom (prepping for painting)
12. We ripped out the front landscaping.
13. We replaced old shrubberies with knock-out roses and azaleas
14. Replaced the mailbox with a new black and white cedar mailbox.
15. Planted some purple and orange flowers (I have no clue on the names...I'm such a green thumb, I know)
16. We mulched the beds in the front. 
17. Tilled up garden beds and planted tomatoes and peppers.
18. Trimmed back trees and shrubs in the back yard.
19. Planted poppies in the side yard.
20. Added chair rail to the dining room.
21. Changed out some of the face plates of outlets. 

Shew! The "To Do" list is getting shorter! It is pretty exciting though and Mark and I both absolutely love keeping house and making everything ours.  It is tiring, but it is a good kind of tired that is really satisfying when we lay our heads down at night.

So funny story about that shower I was talking about.  We had just added the shower head in our master bathroom. It was still a work in progress so we had removed the handle on the faucet (planning on updating the fixtures) but it worked.   I was taking a nice hot shower. I reached my hand towards the spigot to turn off the water and my hand got this weird numbing, tingling sensation and it kind of ached.  I pulled my hand back and paused trying to figure out what was going on.  I reached out again and the pain increased.  I jump out of the shower as it registered that I was feeling an electrical current coming out of the spigot! So after some charged tests we realized that there was a ground wire that was charging the metal in the shower and oddly enough the toilet as well! No wonder Mark and I had been shocking each other and the dogs every time we touched! What the crap?! So needless to say we are very very thankful that we have a second bathroom because in my estimation that shower is OUT OF COMMISSION!  My brave husband still uses it but I refuse! I look forward to the day when we get it fixed though.  

Here are some pictures of the progress we have made so far : ) ENJOY!  We sure do!
Master Bedroom with color

lots of piles of brush

Exterior before
Exterior after

Guest room

Living room view 1

Living room view 2

Living room view 3

This week has slowed down some so I am going to try to post again before the week is out to talk a little more on the spiritual side of my life and some of the amazing opportunities and real treats God has brought to me.  But for now,

TTFN!
REM