Saw this crawling around the floor of the "computer room" a few minutes ago (Sorry for the shock bair )...


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Told my son, in the unlikely event he starts feeling the house shake with the magnitude that might be equivalent to the earthquake seen in the videos shot in Japan, not to worry about his "stuff", just run outside! Stuff can be replaced, WE can't be replaced! This house would collapse in a few seconds under even a LESS powerfull quake ( Read more... )

Day three of the home foundation repairs have officially begun...


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HAD to sleep on the couch last night... bed was dissected yesterday when the workers started on the bedroom. They aren't finished yet, so the bed wasn't re-assembled. Eastwood is still persistant in wanting out of the living room, no matter what I do to try to quiet him down. There are still a few open spots in the floors of the bedroom and kitchen ( Read more... )

Work on the foundation of the bedroom has begun...


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As of this post, my kitchen is pretty much "floorless"... workers are on lunch break...


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Expecting people from a local foundation repair company here sometime today. Getting the back part of the house leveled (as much as it CAN be leveled after years of settling), and getting the majority of the floor replaced ( Read more... )

We seemed to have developed another leak in the ceiling in the kitchen ( Read more... )

The house I've lived in all of my life has changed a bit in appearance, what with remodelings, add-ons, and aging, since it was first built in 1963. Here is a brief "timeline" of this house over the decades...

Around 1964
Yes, believe it or not, it's the same house!

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