Peek-tures!

Finally, the pictures I promised!

We put up a new ceiling fan at the new house in what will be "my" room. The fan that was there before was this white, cheap fan, while all the others around the house were nice ones with a wood finish. So, we bought this new one to better match the house and gave the other fan to D's parents.

Also, here's the dining room light that I LOVE - we replaced a gold chandelier light with this one, and it's so neat:

Last but not least - the garden!! Taa-daa!!

That whole plot was flowers - and now it's veggies. The bare spot on the left is where I sowed carrot seeds, and the bare spot in the back is for more tomato plants. Yippee!!

Grrr

I'm getting into the joys of home ownership early.

Stupid garage door now doesn't want to work. THANK GOD we asked the seller to get us a home warranty, because we just got the paperwork in the mail so I called them last night and already got a call before 8 this morning from the door people that the home warranty people contacted last night (I have people :D). They're going to come fix it Thursday morning. Too bad there's no internet at the new house, because I have to sit there all morning while the door gets worked on. But at least we only pay the small deductible and it magically gets fixed!

Speaking of things we got in the mail at the new house, the mailman is apparently getting huffy with us for not having our names in the mailbox. I never had to do that at the current house. Is that normal?

And we also got our Menard's BIG card in the mail - it's the Menard's credit card cuz we've been spending WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time/money there. As far as credit cards go, it's kinda wonky. It's all sparkly and changes graphics depending on how you look at it. It makes me feel like I'm 5. It certainly doesn't look like a real "I'm-a-serious-homeowner/do-it-yourselfer-person" credit card.

Things are moving along

Well, we've been working on the house pretty much every weekend and many weeknights lately. We started by taking out all the crap we didn't want, then we moved on to buying a new light fixture for the dining room (lovelovelove), a new front door (lovelovelove even more) and a new garage door (well, I don't love it, but the old one was crappy).

We've bought new outlets and switch plates because the house has beige ones, and to me, if you have white walls, it looks better to have white outlets and light switches. We've torn down a lot of the spastic wall paper in the kitchen (it looks soooooooooooooooo much better!), and are having someone come to remove the rest and then paint the living room a sort of light-tanish-orangy color (still TBD).

I've done 1/2 of the work on new light switch plates with Gypsy's help, and hope to finish them at some point (so far, efforts have failed because I'm in bed by like 7pm every night that we don't go over to the house).

Also, last weekend was spent planting a vegetable garden! This house has gardens EVERYWHERE - and it's all perennials and flowers and stuff that I don't feel like taking care of, and so will eventually rip out. I'm starting small though, so as to not annoy the neighbors too much (they're overbearing, but nice). So, the future-mom-in-law and I tackled a large garden in the backyard on Saturday, digging up a bunch of plants that she wanted, moving others, and just plain tearing up the rest. I bought a tiller to help, thank god. But just to get the plot torn up and the tomatoes in the ground took the two of us like 5 hours. It was, surprisingly, nice to hang out with just her for a while (D and his father did stuff inside).

Then yesterday, I finished getting the rest of the plants in the ground and putting down newspaper and mulch, and then building a fence, with D's help. Pictures to come.

But as a teaser, it took 40 feet of wire fencing to surround the plot, and I now am the proud owner of a garden full of 5 different tomato plants (cherry, sweet 100s, early girl, big boy, pear), cabbage, broccoli, carrots, red, yellow and green peppers, basil, rosemary, chives, red onion, hot peppers, pickling cucumbers and strawberries. Rhubarb, dill, and brandywine heirloom tomatoes to come! :)