Here are the floor plans for our remodel/addition. The rather light dotted line areas are our existing space.

This is the main floor:


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Margie, our remodeling general contractor submitted our house for the 2009 Tour of Remodeled Homes (with our permission, of course).  She said that often suppliers will give free stuff to homeowners such has appliances, hardware, flooring materials, window treatments, etc.  We won't know until later (maybe January?) if we're accepted but yesterday ( Read more... )

 Put my mom on a plane to go home last night.  She arrived 7/31 with the rest of the family for our family reunion.  Everyone else left a week later and we've enjoyed a long leisurely visit with her.  But now she's gone.  Tonight my dad flew in with his new girlfriend.  They aren't staying at our house but we'll be visiting with them Thurs evening ( Read more... )

Tomorrow we meet with our project manager/remodeler to sign the contract and pay the first $$ to start our remodeling/addition project on our house.  We've only been discussing this since early this year and it's finally starting.  The refi is nearly done (damn FHA for being so slow and examining the appraisal with a fine tooth comb!) which is ( Read more... )

The garden has officially started producing!  Yay!  I harvested (and cooked!) a big bowl of kale today.  Also picked a respectable number of sugar peas despite how late it is in the season.  I was afraid I wouldn't get any since our spring was so cold and then jumped into hot weather rather abruptly.  Should get an equal amount next week so maybe ( Read more... )

Boy, I was full of energy and words when I first joined LiveJournal.  And seemed like I had more time.  But for me time = energy.  When I don't have the energy, I don't seem to have the time.

The last month has been....hectic and...well...hectic.  Work is busy and we had a bunch of weird maintenance/tenant issues that I had trouble rolling with.  ( Read more... )

Thursday is our Weight Watchers meeting day.  Naturally my weight loss of the day before did not show up at my weigh in.  #!@%!   BUT...and this is definitely TMI...yesterday I made a much needed but always dreaded underwear purchase.  Underwear is, at least for me, a miserable clothing item to buy.  Decent underwear is way overpriced  IMO and so ( Read more... )

Happy Wednesday!  I tend to work four days a week with Wednesday being the "official" day off but most weeks I don't know until Wednesday comes if I am actually going to have the day off.  Such is the way a small business goes, especially property management.  Probably I do get more Wednesdays off than not but sometimes it's hard to plan ahead and ( Read more... )

Dang, but we're having a dreary gloomy spring here in Portland.  We had to turn the furnace back on a couple weeks ago (although we have the thermostat set low enough that it really isn't kicking on much) and we're still using our beloved electric mattress pad (way Way WAY better than an electric blanket, if you've never tried one).  Any bits of ( Read more... )

Wii Fit - Day 6

The Wii Fit continutes to be great fun.  We had several visitors over the weekend who all got to try it out.  Everyone who tries it so far has wanted one.  Even tired from gardening at Kathy's dad's yesterday and stuffed from a great meal at Macaroni Grill (sorry, Weight Watchers, we were bad...), we ended up putting on more than ( Read more... )