I haven't posted any house photos in a while. The interior of the house hasn't changed much except that now the floor is covered in cat toys and the whole place smells like Fresh Step. Meanwhile, we've been very slowly getting the front and back yards into order. The house was left vacant for almost a year after it was foreclosed on, which was ( Read more... )

First tomato from my garden. I'm inordinately excited.


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We finally had our housewarming party a couple of weekends ago. Since we cleaned the house for the party, I decided to take some photos. So here it is: our house at the end of Stage One of renovations. For extra fun, compare it to the first set of pictures back in January.

The foyer:


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Once again, it's been a long time since the last house update. This house stuff keeps you busy!

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Sorry I haven't posted house photos for a couple of weeks. My mother visited for a week to help us unpack, and then my beloved gooseneck Mac finally died for good, and I was without Internet for a while. But I'm back! And I have photos of toilets!

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Last weekend, we moved into the house! It's taken me this long to post because we had some trouble getting the Internet hooked up at the new location. But everything's cool now and I have a few more photos.

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We've been working on the house for two months! We move in this weekend! Are we ready? Absolutely not!

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Has it been seven weeks already? We have to move in the weekend after next, so we're getting down to the wire.

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Not too much change this weekend. We only worked on the house on Saturday so we could have a Super Bowl party on Sunday. And it was awesome. But the house now has the magic combination of heat, water, and (some) electricity. And we painted stuff, as usual.

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I didn't get any pictures of Week 4 because I forgot the camera. There wasn't much to photograph, anyway. Mostly we just bought bathroom plumbing and lights. Yes, picking out a dual-flush toilet was exciting, but I probably couldn't have captured the magic.

This weekend, though, we were back to painting and fiddling with stuff.

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