Next Door Real Estate

The house right behind us (back yard neighbor) is now listed for sale. This is the neighbor that was foreclosed on. It's listed at 42,900. Sigh. Property values are so low. She bought the house for about 80K. More pix on the link. You can see our house at the far left of the pic.

Snippets

Little bits of what's been happening.

Bob found Em's other pair of glasses in the van. Guess HE gets the reward!

I have developed a new "appreciation" for Hugh Jackman. This is mostly due to watching the X-men movies, which I had never seen before and exacerbated by watching Someone Like You over the weekend. (I ordered it on ebay.) Yeah, I know. I say "appreciation" - you probably say "obsession." LOL I plan to go see Australia now, even though I really don't like Nicole Kidman. Yes, it's still showing at one theater near me.

I really don't like the cold and spend my time huddling in layers of clothes and blankets, avoiding going outside. And it is definitely COLD. The kids don't mind though. As I look at them right now, 2 are wearing short sleeves, one is barefoot. I've bribed them to wear their slippers. Yesterday they did play outside, but I don't think I'll allow it today.

I went to a library sale the other night and got a few cool things - books, of course, and some VHS movies. Those are cheap now! LOL We still have a VCR so this is a good thing.

I have been writing - am up to almost 9000 words to add to my 2007 NaNoNovel. My goal is 2000 words every day, including Saturdays. So far this week, I've done it.

I have TONS of books to read, but I am not getting much reading time. I have only finished one book so far this month, but it was really good. A Christian Regency romance called The Falcon and the Sparrow.

Bob got the heating ductwork put in so the girls now have heat in their bedroom. Yes, we've lived here fifteen years and he's just now getting it done. lol He is also working on patching the hole in the living room ceiling (and the boys' floor) where there used to be a register for hot air to rise from the oil furnace that used to be in our living room when we moved in. There was no central heating in our house when we bought it.

We are considering new auto insurance companies. Bob's not happy with the cost of our policy.

I've been exercising 3 days a week and counting calories. It's only been 2 weeks, so I guess it's early yet.

Bob subbed in Sunday School for me last Sunday while I was scrapbooking and one of the students told me later that he did a good job! No, not one of my own kids! lol

I'm still basking in the afterglow of scrapbooking. What a wonderful weekend it was!

Ok, back to reality. The kids are watching a History Channel documentary on the Dark Ages on DVD. I got it from the library with interlibrary loan.

It's Yellow!!!!

Melted Butter

Our long-awaited project is.....



Yep - painting!

What would we paint that would need a 5 gallon bucket of paint?

Yep again - our HOUSE!

We have needed to do this for a couple-three years now and finally have both the money and the time to do it.

Yep - we are doing it ourselves. That mostly means BOB is doing it. The kids are helping. I'm nagging. lol They've been scraping the old paint and re-painting the white trim.

What color? Well, we decided we wanted a change. So, it's the bottom one in the pic here.



Yep = melted butter is the name of the color. I've wanted yellow for several years, but was resigned to grey again. Bob, however, was willing to make the change, so he pushed for that. When pressed for color choices, I specified that I wanted butter yellow, and this chip is the color I picked without even knowing the name of it. lol

Our house has been grey since 1994. Before we moved here, it was white with red trim.




Hopefully before snowfall, I'll be able to post a butter-yellow picture of our house. Won't it look lovely with the fall colors?