Day 130 in Our House

Amazingly, we've owned the house for 130 days. I haven't chronicled all of the progress in the past few months but it is coming along. I've continued to remove wallpaper from the kitchen and it is almost ready to paint. We've hung some pictures. We've repaired the kitchen and bathroom sinks. This weekend, Joshua and his brother Mike built a door frame to add a door in front of our furnace closet. Previously this was covered by a thin piece of wood paneling, I think with some sort of deer pattern on it. Ugly. We took that down and covered it in plastic, but it poured cold air into the house all winter.

Behold, the new door (they even added the vent--awesome!)

Over the past couple of weeks, since we actually had a couple of nice spring days, we've been trying to get the yard cleaned up. There are many, many weeds (dandelions mostly) and a lot of junk awaiting a city dumpster to be delivered to our driveway in another couple of weeks. Today, we paid another visit to Lowes and then spent the afternoon in the yard, planting the garden.

Here's our plan: We've got all the critical components of really good salsa, though I will still need to plant some herbs, maybe on the back porch. We'll also hopefully have the makings for salad, zucchini bread, jack-o-lanterns, and watermelon seed spitting contests.

It doesn't look like much yet, but we'll invite you over later in the season to enjoy the fruits (or veggies as it were) of our labors.

Who does that?

We've been in our house for 4 months now. We've walked up the stairs countless times. Today was the first day we noticed the gum on the underside of the railing/banister. 4 pieces left behind by the previous owners. Ick. How did we not see it in 4 months? Better yet, who does that? I'm willing to cut them some slack and assume that maybe small children did it. However judging by the munge we've had to clean out of so many other places, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't children at all. It did chisel off quite easily, but again, ick!