Birthday Present Update

On June 26th, the old car & the neighbor's boat named
"The Redneck Yacht Klub" were towed away!!!! YEAH!!!

They were totally moved out by the 15th of July
& Tom closed on the property July 28th.

So this is what we have now......
You can see the wheels turning in Tom's head.......
The possibilities are endless,but as he ponders & comes up with ideas,
I'm just happy to have the dog gone

& the cat no longer using our shade garden as his litter box!
Our plans are to have the house down before the snow flies
& just live with the vacant lot for awhile (hopefully a long while!).
We'll see what happens.....

The Den (AKA "The Martha Room")

Yes it was worth the wait!!!

After we moved the furniture out & into the family room , Mandy repaired all the nail pops & touched up the paint. Then it was all mine...I cleaned it & didn't waste anytime moving the new furniture in, along with the bookcases & the stereo!

The Family Room is Done!!!!!

Looks like Tom will finally be shopping for
his big screen TV, the old one just doesn't cut it !!!

TIME TO START DECORATING!!!!!

New Picture for The OZ Bath

Moving Forward

It's been 3 weeks since the siding repairs & I keep hoping for a hard driving rain to make sure the leaks are eliminated.....but No...we get nice straight down rain, a lovely garden soaker, all the areas around us get the driving rain!
So we discuss it, assume (you know the old saying...assume makes an ass out of u & me....let's hope this doesn't apply here) that the leaks are no more & go ahead with the drywall repairs in the family room.

Drywall repairs & a fresh coat of paint

Long as she's up there, might as well fix those nail pops...
a sponge taped to a long pole does the trick....

Might at well clean those ceiling fan blades too.......

(L click on any pic to enlarge)
Might we just impose one more time to clean the globe now????
Mandy couldn't reach the globe to unfasten the screw holding it on,
so Tom hooked the end of the hose to the air compressor
& attached it to the long pole
and just blew the heck out of the dust & dead bugs inside there!
Sure hope the paint was dry-that stuff really went flying!

Time to start the trim.......we're really getting close.

Window Warranty

I wasn't going to be home when the rep from Paradigm, the window company came. I had gone over the whole list (Yes it actually was a written list with details of each window issue & it's location) with Tom of the window issues before I left & we discussed questions that I needed answered. I admit I was actually considering canceling my appointment to be there, But Hey-it was a hair appointment!!!
Their customer service was excellent as we can attest to from Sept of 2006 when we had all the issues with the peak window.
Tom started going over the list with the rep & he just took it from him, told him they have had some issues with the film but not to this extent...No questions, they're replacing all 28 windows.
They're even replacing the one that "spontaneously cracked all by itself" when the house sitter was here! We were going to have them replace it anyway but now it's "No charge".
Tom didn't get all my questions answered but I'll take care of that when they replace the windows the end of August. Great customer service!