March 6, 2007

this year's house plan

The first little tastes of spring are in the air and we're planning our next steps of working on the house.

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a house nearby will probably be on your television

A house up the street will be on a new, more renovation-oriented house flipping show. It is already a good story and they haven't even started yet.

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March 7, 2007

that many tools do not belong in the kitchen

We've ordered a toolshed. Hopefully it won't be too large or too small.

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March 11, 2007

the beginning of a picket fence

We started working on the picket fence out front this weekend and it being all unfinished will taunt us every time that we leave the house until at least next weekend.

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key-key goes back outside

The "bring the outside cat inside experiment" has failed miserably, unless having everything that one owns peed on by a cat is considered a success. Key-key is an outside cat again.

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March 15, 2007

everything is coming up green and pink

Almost 2 years ago, we planted 2 thundercloud plums out front. Hinting towards spring, they've bloomed this week and some random bulbs have started to sprout.

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now with a shed

The man came and built our new shed this week.

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March 22, 2007

ladder abuse

As it gets to be working-on-a-ladder-season around here again, let us all take a moment and a deep breath and consider what not to do.

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March 25, 2007

making rounded fence pickets

Two weeks after planting the fence posts, we pulled in an actual skilled carpenter and made a bunch of rounded-top fence pickets.

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tommy the cat

Now that Key-Key is back outside, we've attracted a new scruffy boy cat that one of us has decided looks like a "Tommy".

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March 29, 2007

little purple flowers

The abandoned house next door is in that first nice blush of spring; it is all down hill from here.

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