Art on the house across the street

At least there are no squatters (that we know of) at this house anymore. Hubby painted it a very cool blue with big red dots (I loved it!!) and then someone had to come and do some pretty ugly artwork on top of it. I don't mind the stencils so much, it's the un-artistic spray bottle hearts and Saturn rings that I think look kind of trashy. Oh well. I'm sure we'll paint rectangles or triangles next time... see what they come up with then.

The Joys of Building and After

Since I haven't posted in a long time, I thought I might try to start up again. There are some pretty big changes about to happen at the homestead again. We have had Craigslist people come and take up most of the rocks we had in our front yard (we are planning on making it a more useable space with plants, a fence, deck and trees). We are also going to be putting up a gate in our driveway and fence in the front yard (too many weirdos coming onto our property to relieve their bowels and take our recycling - and by too many, I mean it's happened once... that was enough). We have installed cameras all over the place (this is how we knew the crazy lady peed on our porch) and are seriously trying to start building a shed for all our goodies (if this crazy rain would ever let up!!).

In the pictures, you can see our lack of rocks as well as the rocking view we have out of front window.

One of the happiest days of my life

I finally have gotten a pantry and a wine fridge!!

And the house next door comes down...

The Nightmares of Home Ownership

Well, a few weeks ago we were burglarized. Turns out they can't do much to a gaggle of 14 year olds who decide they want your flat screen tv and several macbooks. Here we are a few weeks later and we still have no front door.

Broken Window Experiment

Hypothesis: Spraying a power washer on the windows will clean them.
Conclusion: Yes, it cleans some of the windows but also makes the bullet hole worse.

Back Yard Project

Papa just delivered 800 lbs of Texas Native Mulch to our backyard. Wow, it's nice to have someone pay for it, pick it up, and then help shovel it out of his pickup!! This will basically be our back yard cover so it's not too muddy or dusty for the boys to play out there all summer.