veranellies: gw vol 5

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

gw vol 5

I don't have too much of an update for you. We have been so busy with "life" that the front yard got put on hold for a couple weeks. But here is a small update, the following pictures were taken about a week and a half ago..

We added a few portions off the box we put in a couple weeks ago, and started on another large box. This next box will also be double high and have smaller portions come off. This is as far as we got because we ran out of wood. So we just laid it out where we wanted it to be. The string going across is the "3 foot" marker that we will make sure to not cross again!

Over the past week things have started to go crazy out there. We haven't been able to work on the layout. But I went out and took some pictures just now so you can see how quickly everything is sprouting! Most of the irises are in bloom. The chives are coming up everywhere. And those arches and grape vines..thats what sold us on this house.. I will give you a word of advice. Never base a purchase decision because something looks cool. This house has been one major disaster after the next. We still arent even near completed upstairs (which is exactly why it looks abandoned if you can see into the upstairs windows) and now the outside has gone to pot -needs a new roof, new porch (both roof of porch and floor of porch) needs paint, and hole fixing, the list goes on and on. If anyone ever wins the lotto and wants to donate to a charity case- please remember me and my poor house before it just falls in on us!

I was really hoping to be able to get out there this coming weekend, but it looks like K is going to go visit his brothers this weekend out in Massachusetts, so I guess another weekend of no construction. Sucky-suck.

Well I hope everyone is having a fantastic middle of the week. I can not believe we are already mid May. How is this possible?!

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Stephanie · 671 weeks ago

Home ownership sucks! I miss renting. We just had all the pluming ($900.)replaced, and last fall had to replace the hvac/heat pump.($5,000) not to mention new fridge, washer and dishwasher, fence and rug in the living room. Next on the agenda: electric rewire, new kitchen, new shed, new tub, new carpet...etc etc...All for our "move in ready" home. Your front yard is CRAZY. Tim and I are going to make our front yard a garden but with lots of low maintenance stuff. Then we plan on mulching most of the back yard. Then we won't have to mow so much. Yippie!

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veranellies 79p · 671 weeks ago

it does suck. i was talking to k the other day about the simplicity of renting. don't get me wrong, there are definite things i like about having my own home, but the negative outweigh the positive. at least with our house. we were really stupid to take on such a massive project.

i feel horrible for you that you have had so many problems in a "move in ready" home. at least we knew that we had a lot in store for us. the list seems endless and the amounts to fix things are way more than we will ever have to be able to even attempt some things. i mean, for instance, the roof - it HAS to get done because it's leaking so it has stopped all work upstairs. but the quotes we got we all over 20 grand. who has that kind of money?! certainly not us, especially with what has happened in our lives the last few years with our jobs/finances. i have been trying to make small lists of what needs to get done to make it seem more manageable .. but it all just sucks and we basically just need to win the lottery or have someone feel pity for us and decide to either buy the house or give us lots of money to fix it.

not mowing is a good thing. we don't mow anymore. the front yard (well obviously) and the strip that is next to the road, this weekend is getting completely mulched over and that will be flower gardens as well. as for our backyard - i posted that a couple weeks ago with all the paths we created out of the free wood chips, the little areas that have grass we had planted all wild grasses that have flowers and mixtures in with the grass seed and we are just letting it go nutso. it actually looks really neat. k wants it to be "like a forest" so we just have lots of trees and shrubs back there. the girls absolutely love their lush backyard, and again -no mowing!!

good luck on all your fixes to your house - all those things you listed are very expensive too, so i definitely understand the stresses you have. hey but at least you have walls in your entire home right?! hahah

love and miss you!
t

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Stephanie · 671 weeks ago

That's true we do have walls. (for now) Yeah, we've considered the lottery too. 20 Grand?! Holy Crap! We had to finance the $5,000 and that was hard enough. We have to just take it a little at a time too. Townes says when he's a grown up he'll have a mansion and we can live in it...that's our attainable goal. Ha ha. Really though, I hope he does. We planted trees around the border but are going to mulch the rest of the backyard because of all the ticks around here. Sully likes to sit in the taller grasses and get eaten alive. North Carolina is weird. It's neighborhoods but so forest-y. We still get deer and wildlife in our backyard, but we live in the city. How is having three dogs? I really want a third lately. Love and Miss you too!