I am SOOO tired!

Today I have to force myself to take it easy, just getting things finalized before the baby gets here.

Friday, cut the grass here and at the orchard, Saturday, Sunday and Monday painted. Yesterday it got hot outside, so painting became a gooey endeavor. It looks gorgeous though - all of 1st floor is done (painting anyway). I have to put the hardware on the kitchen drawers (and soap so they slide!). Jim and I are debating moving the gas line to a better place. He helped me over the weekend, and omg, I don't know what I would have done without him and his paint sprayer! The upstairs will be a lot easier for sure. Will paint and fix bathroom later. We are now concentrating on getting me moved in and we'll take it from there (like for electrical).  Pictures to come

painting

Thursday spent about 2 hours sanding, cleaning and primer painting. I had to get some rollers because painting with a 2" brush ain't gonna make it. We had some bad storms rip through, and damned if I don't need new gutters both house. Oh well, it will have to wait because I'm officially out of money and way into debt. I need to get moved into the smaller house by mid-July, have big house ready to rent by 1 Sept so I don't lose money with time wasted. Now I have to learn to be a landlord. Website http://www.clevelandhousing.org/ is a good place because I can specify veterans! So that take a lot of worry from me. The bitch of all this is that I'm doing 80% of the work so far by myself - Jim's been working overtime, but Cortney has been helping. But I'm tired, way tired.

oh terrible storm!

sigh - I need new gutters on both houses - this sucks

some pics

my body hurts!

I hate that my body betrays me with so much pain - I know it's the bursitis. Cort & I worked on the kitchen (the toughest room). We're almost at the painting point (well, priming)

Work has begun!

Let's see - so far I've taken the kitchen (4) drawers out, too, hardware off and we really need to get in there and paint, at least the primer. All the rooms needs painting. And desperately need new electrical plugs, but I'm going to go ahead & paint, then touch up when electric is done. I did the back porch railing all by myself! came out so cute. I'll get pics later.

Yesterday, after doing the porch, I had to clean out the garage. The roof leaks :( but worse is all the wood that has been sitting in there for like-ever that had gotten moldy and make the inside of the garage smell horrible. I bagged up some other yucky stuff, not the least of which the 5 layers of carpets, linoleum and rubber mats Joe had on the garage dirt floor. I hope that nasty garage isn't why he got sick!

Got to run to HomeDepot (yes again) for screws & other little stuff.

Rain Rain Rain

well, as much as my heart wants to work next door, the weather fails me. Got stuff to do inside (like painting, lots of painting) and outside, fixing the back porch, stairs, gates. Windows can all open and we got the back and side doors open too. I'm excited, I admit it!

as of May 13th, 2011

I'm officially the owner of the little house now. Got the keys yesterday (Saturday). Garage roof leakes, but then it's been raining like the dickens, and I need electrical work done too (some). Very nervous about finding the right person at a reasonable price. I got the paints, light fixtures, spent $500, but well worth the investment. scary but excited...

ACK!

Been a bit since I wrote. No I still don't have possession of the house however Jim and I did put up the fencing in the back. I won't have it ready for when my daughter get here, but oh well. Slowly but surely. Having the house to work on will take my mind off of other matters, like the lumps in my left breast. Not sure what to think about all that