More Yard Work

Okay, fast forward to August! Susan really got at it in the yard. She pulled out all kinds of ivy and weeds from the overgrown plant beds. She also helped me out in clipping back the apple tree and some more of the pine. The pine that looks barren on the bottom half is eventually going to get whacked as well. Here is some of her handy work.





We cut back all kinds of shrubs in the front of the yard against the walkway. The root was really dug down in there so I figured I'd put the Avalanche to use and rip that bad boy out of there. That was fun!

Cleaning up the yard!

Okay, so I took a couple months off from the blogging. Well we have been back at it full swing getting things squared away and the latest fun was dealing with the front yard.

Jason came over and we had some fun with the chainsaw back in the spring and here were some of the pics of the carnage.

These aren't very good pics of the before and after, I'll try to get some other ones as we go along.

LA trip picture link

Hey everyone, we've been delinquent on posting stuff about the house, but I did upload a bunch of pictures from our recent trip to LA. Feel free to check them out here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/bradrodriguez/LosAngelesTrip070604

Brad

The Big Move!

Well, I've been off-line a while, mainly because we were without internet for almost a week during the move process. This weekend we moved in with the help of some of our great friends who where a complete Godsend! Our gratitude and thanks go out to Jason, Jill, Sally, Seth, Dave, Paul, and Todd for helping out with the move. After 4 hours of moving, 3 extra large Dewey's pizzas, a 12 pack of beer, 4 trips with 3 vehicles, a competitive blowgun shooting spectacle, and countless sore muscles...here is what we ended up with!!!

Now we just have to unpack.....arrrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhhh!

Glassblock windows

On Tuesday the glassblock guys came out and ripped out the old windows and put these lovely new glassblock ones in. I don't have any great pictures of the old ones but basically they were single pane glass with metal safety bars on them on the inside. These look 10x better and not to mention the security which is the main reason we did it. Anyone could just have smashed the windows before and gotten into the basement. They look great and he did an excellent job.

Painting the living room

Here we are, the last room to be painted (other than the hallways which we'll do after we beat the walls up moving in). We always thought the room was kind of a greyish green, but after painting the trim white and putting on some of this green the old color just looked nasty. Here is Susan hard at work cutting in.
This is the finished color, we like it alot. Also notice the new light that we installed this weekend. In this pic the base of the columns is the old color as well as the door. The previous owners really had all the trim painted like a grey instead of a white and doing all this painting is just really making everything pop.
Still need to paint the pocket door to the entry way.

Pretty much finished kitchen

Well, here is the kitchen. Only 2 small things left to do, caulk the seam between the backsplash and counter and put in the trim piece under the sink. Other than that we are done! New additions are the under cabinet lighting, the now functioning microwave and gas range, and the white outlets.