Unbelievable

Backyard Jungle

Not sure how much you can really tell in these pics. We've got about a seven foot slope in our backyard - so I'm standing at the top at the back fence where I've had to do a lot of branch trimming. We've also got this one kind of crawling vine that has thorns and literally attaches itself to everything with these little things that wrap around fences and branches. I'm going to have to find out a good way to kill it.

I love all these trees though.

Ramen at the Beach

He's saying "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"


How cute is that face??

Art

This is some of the art we saw at Artomatic a couple of weekends ago.

There is no way for a picture to do these two justice. I really want this first one, but I'm pretty sure it's a few thousand dollars.





Love the use of rubber duckies!


This one is made out of Red Bull cans.

View From My Desk

It doesn't look as good in pics as it does sittin ghere.

Kitchen

I tried to do this as a video, but it didn't work out.





So this is our kitchen. It doesn't have a pantry, which is also weird to me. But that's ok. We might find we don't need those shelves eventually. In that glaring white space I'm going to put a small island. It's on order. That will give us another drawer, the kitchen only has one, weird thing three. It'll also give us a nice cutting board/work area and more storage space. The cabinets aren't all full, but Nerdstar has a lot of stuff that she'll be unpacking when she gets home.

New House

Ta da...

This is the side of the house.  (obviously)

It's a nice 12x12 or so deck.  Just enough room for a grill and a couple of chairs.  The yard really needs grass.  I don't mind the slope too much.  

This area is the rest of the room with the fireplace below.  We'll put the sofa and tv down here.  It's a nice open space. 

This is a nice old fashioned wood burning fireplace.  I've gotten spoiled with our gas fireplace in our apt. but I enjoy building fires!  

This is the downstairs master bedroom.  It's huge.  The closet isnt' great, but that can be fixed in time.  Lots of light and space!

This is a huge laundry/storage area.  There's a good fifteen feet you can't see.  

This is upstairs - probably intended for a formal dining area or something, it opens into the kitchen.  We're going to put the desk in front of this window and more bookshelves on the left side.

Bathroom 1 - this one is downstairs by the masterbedroom.

Bathroom 2 this one is upstairs with the other 3 bedrooms.

Spare bedroom

Spare bedroom 2
There's a third bedroom as well.  All 3 are on the top floor.  One we'll use as a real spare bedroom.  One will be for the workout stuff.  The other probably storage for now.

You really can't tell how big these rooms are in these photos.  We'll certainly post more once we get all moved in next month.  We didn't get any of the best part - the kitchen because that's where all the stuff for the inspection was.  The inspection went really well.  The house is in great shape.