{Not} Living Vicariously

Lindy's Big Adventure - Part 2

Back over Fourth of July weekend (remember I said I was behind!) we were up at the farm in KY. Lindy usually sticks pretty close to the farmhouse even when we are away. However, she has started to get more brave and this time she branched out. As we were leaving, she tried to follow the car up the long long driveway.

I got worried enough that I did go put her back inside the house and then we left. However, there are dog doors and she has learned how to get out of the house. Which is a good thing when she needs to go take care of business! We were in town most of the day, having fun at G's house. Aaron and I were the first to leave for home. After we crossed the bridge and turned into the woods road to head up the hill . . .

Aaron wondered if we'd see any deer. After all, it was about the right time for them to be out. Then we saw a little brown form darting down the road. Small deer? No, Lindy dog out on a "big adventure" . . . She came running down the hill towards us, we stopped the car and had her jump on in. She had the biggest dog grin on her face and who knows what all she got into while we were gone. I'm just glad she was home safe and I now know that she needs to wear her tags while on the farm in case she goes off adventuring without us again! Check out Two Happy Bellies for Part 1 of her Big Adventure.

Creative Storage 2

Our kitchen is bigger here than the old house. Yet somehow I still seem to have very little storage room. Maybe that is because I'm trying to actually unpack and use some of our wedding gifts. Anyway, I came up with some creative storage for our everyday fiestaware that adds some color to our decor and gives me more cabinet space for things that are not so pretty.

I'm pretty happy with it!
 

Front Yard - Old House

I got some shots of the work Aaron did. It really looks great.

He re-mulched all the landscaping, did some simple roof repair, and cleaned up the lawn. It looks great! (I put down all the new solar lights, so I'll take a little bit of credit . . .)

Our cute little starter home is ready to be shown to people - now we just need to find someone who will love her as much as we did.
 

How hot is it?

I've been whining about the heat quite a bit lately . . . I really need to stop that. I did live many years in Fresno and at least we do have air conditioning here. However, the Wednesday before we moved on a Saturday, said air conditioner went out at the old house. Which made it very difficult to be motivated to pack (which explains why I still have odds and ends at the old house - which need to be out this weekend!). And that Saturday was an extremely hot one. We did have my father and a few friends show up to assist (blessings on you!) once we finally got a moving van at 5 pm that evening. And I just want to share one picture of poor Lindy giving up on the us and getting her own drink:

I find it an accurate reflection of how hot it was!

*this should be part of a series of catch up posts - ones planned when I expected to have internet service much sooner, we'll see if these actually get written and posted*
 

Almost ready

We are almost ready to put the house on the market. And I can't wait! I wanted to show you pictures of all the work Aaron did in the front yard, but I haven't taken them yet. He is mowing it tonight and then I can take some shots. I'm really impressed with how it turned out. After that I just have one wall left to paint and then we need to clean the place. Our plan is to tackle that this weekend and put it on the market early next week.

I will admit I was supposed to be painting the wall tonight. However my head is pretty stuffed up and I'm due to get my allergy shots tomorrow. So instead of breathing a bunch of paint fumes . . . I walked the dog and am now blogging. It is only 84 degrees right now. So much better than the 90+ we have been having, even in the evenings. Summer is nice, however I'm really ready for it to be Autumn (my favorite season of the year!).

Creative Storage 1

Even though this house is bigger than our tinker toy house we just left . . . it is still missing some major storage opportunities. One of them being a coat closet! Luckily, Randy had made us a coat rack for Christmas, while we were still in the old house. We had not had an opportunity to accept receipt of said coat rack due to travel schedules, etc. But while we were up in KY over the Fourth of July we finally got our present and it is very useful here in the new house. Look at the craftmanship on this piece:

Come winter time, expect to see every hook in full use. I own a lot of coats . . .
 

New kitchen in the old house

Okay, remember a few months back when I actually showed pictures of the kitchen I'd been living with for the past year? Here and here? Well, while my father was out here last month helping us do projects in both houses, he and Aaron managed to replace the countertops . . .

and he and I redid the floors . . .

I don't know about you, but I think these look a thousand times better than they did! Why oh why didn't we do this for us? Instead of for selling the place??? Anyway, we had fun and learned some stuff as well. The best way to do projects.
 
 

Welcome Back?

So a month later (almost) we finally have internet set up at the new house. There were some issues, definitely. And while I am trying to be understanding of the fact that flood victims caused a huge backlog in moving our service from the old house to the new house . . . I would have been much more understanding if the provider had informed me of this up front, rather than implying my service would be transferred within the week and only after we complained three weeks later did we find out why there was a delay. Um, needless to say, we're now with a different provider.

I have worked enough customer facing jobs that I appreciate the issues surrounding this. However I have never lied outright or by omission to a customer and I am willing to take my money elsewhere if a company treats me this way. So, I look forward to entering the blogosphere again. And boy do I have some stories to share. Now I just need to download some pictures!

Chat soon . . .