Category Archives: The Ins and Outs of Us

drumroll please….

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After two and a half years of work on this darn house…let the before and after pictures begin!

A little history…the home was built in 1910 and therefore will become a centenarian in just a few short months. I belive it is considered an arts and crafts style home. We have done ALMOST all of the work on our own. We just recently hired a contractor to help finish a few little teeny things but otherwise we’ve done it all…lots of elbow grease folks.

The house has all of the original woodwork including doors, pocket doors, etc. Oak downstairs and yellow pine upstairs. EVERY little piece of wood was painted some odd color upstairs…I swear to you! We have worked really hard to keep all of the original woodwork by stripping it all and refinishing it to its original color. Uhhhh, yeah…more elbow grease.

We do not know the original history completely yet on the house but we did find this photo behind a wall when doing some demo in one of the rooms. On the back it says Simon Fuller Overturf and Minerva Eastlake Overturf and then below that it says man & wife.
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So…here is the house when we first purchased it:
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….and today:2009_10_18 662
So, what have we done so far to the outside: privacy fence around entire back yard, wrap around deck (first ever deck that Adam built~high five to him!), power washed and painted the eaves & trim, etc. New doors & windows. Landscaped. New lighting, number plate, yada yada yada. I would really like to still replace that front picture-type window. I can’t stand it. I mean I REALLY. CAN’T. STAND. IT! This is kind of what I am thinking but we’ll see…IMG_9030

 

Still to do (next spring/summer): New roof and gutters. Lets face it, we are fresh out of money folks and the bids we got in for the roof and gutters equals roughly the price of a 2010 Ford Focus (no joke~not sure if it is the steap of the roof or what). And, no…I would NOT buy a Ford Focus it is just the point that we could go literally buy a car out-right for the price of our roof.

UPDATE: The house with the new roof! (also the day we sold the house)IMG_0695

Your underwear goes INSIDE your pants

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Okay all…you may have seen this but IF not I would recommend you watch it. It is an unfortunately true depiction of America today in many ways.

I especially like the part about the obesity epidemic and I guarantee you WILL laugh at about 4:15 where they explain the whole “underwear goes inside your pants” part.

There are a few things that may take you by surprise……. Not for young viewers or ears!

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A leetle bity update

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Adam saw the specialist again today. He has been done with all of his medicine for over 24 hours now. They see no more “issues” inside the eye. All is healed, they say. They sound fairly sure that he is recovered to his max at this point. We hope he is WRONG. We are still going to pray for more recovery.

Before the accident his vision was beyond perfect at 20/15. His vision is now 20/50 and they recommended he get glasses. We are going to hold onto the prescription for the glasses for a couple-three weeks and then decide what to do. I can tell Adam is disappointed. I am, too but…we have to remember that he still does have sight at least…it could have been a heck of a lot worse.

a little ball

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This past Saturday I got to watch my niece play in a volleyball tourney. She is a senior this year and excels at both volleyball and basketball. They won the tournament and I think she is pretty darn good…no prejudice here AT ALL. I was a little envious of the parents who were lugging around stadium seats as I developed bleacher butt but oh well…
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<p style=”TEXT-ALIGN: left”>I can’t believe she is a senior already. AND, she is thinking of going IVY league!!!! I am sooooo excited for her.</p>
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Tuff ‘N Easy

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WARNING: Whatever you do…do not type in the title of this post in a yahoo or google search.

Adam is working on installing a shower surround today in our guest bath. It is an American Shower &amp; Bath brand from Menards but the model is Tuff ‘N Easy. So…he wanted to see if he could find some info online about the installation of it and googled Tuff ‘N Easy Shower and was taken back by what the search found.

Even funnier is that he was searching under videos. Needless to say, he will require counseling now to rid himself of some of the nasties he saw so very briefly!