Slowly but surely, the house is getting organized. Oh, I'm using a bookcase as a bookcase but I'm also using it as a printer stand -- and I bought a TV stand to use as a stand for my multifunction device and newer laser (bought when I thought the old LaserJet 2100 had died -- but, like Lazarus, it came back to life. That's an 11-year-old workhorse ( Read more... )

The tile went down last Thursday and Friday, the room was painted a bright spring green on Friday, the trim and inner surface of the door to the hall were painted a french vanilla shade on Saturday, I painted the closet doors a darker green as an accent on Sunday and touched them up on Tuesday, then painted the outer surface of the door (cream, to ( Read more... )

Thursday and Friday, the tile guys were here, and tiled the two small bedrooms (the larger one is my office; the smaller one is the bird room). They were done by 10am on Friday, and they did a great job ( Read more... )

Last Monday, we had ceiling fans installed in the master bedroom, my office, the bird room, and out on the lanai. The installer actually arrived earlier than he'd told us (a phenomenon we seem to be seeing a lot of here). I looked at Bobby and said, "Does he remind you of anyone?" He looked at me, grinned, and said "Gibbs." The guy was a dead ( Read more... )

So we ordered the washer/dryer combo with pedestals -- which will make doing laundry much easier on our horribly painful backs (not to mention my knees, which get worse every day ( Read more... )

In Florida, that is. I still can't believe we're here ( Read more... )

And we bought a house in Florida, and will be moving there in about 2 months.

In June, I went to Florida and spent 2 full days looking at houses with a real estate agent. We looked at about a dozen properties, but ended up with the house I'd originally contacted her about. We'd written it off originally, because when I called her in April, she said ( Read more... )