Move In Day

This occurred many moons ago, but it was the beginning of actually finishing massive house projects. Not saying that everything is great, but after a year and a half, it is much, much better.

My first worry was where was all his crap going to go and how was I going to convince him to trash the majority of it? If it was the 90's, it would look great! But 20 years later...well...it is showing it's age. And none of it was worth trying to fix or rehab. But I am now learning to live with it and it has kind of a neat feeling. Especially since Chubble sits on top and keeps watch.

Bees

I got a call from Holly saying that bees made a hive in the back door. I armed myself with bee killer before I got home and I killed them good. I did feel a little bad because I watched them die...slowly. But mainly because I think I could have made some money on the beads: http://youtu.be/5J2kc4oZTVU.

Glo Worm

I found an old Glo Worm. Pretty sweet. I put it in one of my lamps because I am still 8 and like a Glo Worm for a night light.

Shrooms!

Last year I had a big problem with mushrooms in the front retaining wall. The heat and then the cold was the perfect breading factory for shrooms to popup everywhere. The main problem was that the retaining wall was wood so they could latch on to that. The solution was to lay down a bunch of rocks. Rocks would retain heat from the sun and since shrooms needed dampness to live, it would kill them. So my dad and I went out and bought a bunch of rocks. They were heavy. A bag of rocks is heavy is you didn't already know. This was last year:

Books

One of my biggest projects over the past couple weeks has been moving my bedroom out of the guest room and back to the master bedroom. Why I was sleeping in the 10x10 and not the largest room in the house is beyond me. Wait, it was probably because I was too lazy to do all the work needed to live in the master bedroom. More on that later.

 The first step was clearing out all of the crap in the master bedroom. Right away I knew I was going to have a problem because it was the place I kept all my grad school books and books I didn't want to sort. Placing my grad school books was easy. I just brought those to work. The overflow books posed a problem.

 Last night I had to make some hard decisions. My house couldn't handle another bookshelf due to space, so I had to decide what I would ship to the book farm so they could run free. I thought it was going to be hard until I started looking at some of the anchor books (large books that sit on the bottom so the bookshelf doesn't fall over). It was a lot easier than I thought. Here are some gems:
 - 2003 FrontPage. FrontPage doesn't even exist, but I think I kept it because I built my first website in FrontPage.
 - 2007 Google Hacks. Me thinks a book on Google might have changed just a little in the past 5 years.
 - The O'Reilly Factor. I found this in the $.10 bin when I was at Goodwill and bought it for a gift for my very liberal friend. I ended up giving her a framed picture of a random child so the book just sat for a few years.

I Googled Myself

I haven't Googled my name for since before a few months now, so I didn't really know what was out there attached to my name. I did today and realized I forgot about this blog. It reminded me how much I loved writing this blog! So I am back ...for now. The few months projects on the house has stalled. But they are not dead! Mainly because the house still needs major work and I have to do them. So after nearly two years, here are some great pictures of my cats.

Damn you Hot Dog!

Last year I got this idea to test the back retaining wall to see what would grow with very little work. All of the vegetables died within a couple weeks, but the strawberry plants did very well. I didn't have to do anything but put them in the ground and water for the first few days.

Actually, putting them in the ground was kind of hard. I have to dig a lot and the ground was really solid. It took about an hour because I had to dig up the first layer of grass and weeds and then dig a hole.

A year later and the strawberry's are still alive! My new dream is to have a large berry patch in the back yard with raspberry's, strawberry's and other Berry's I need to research before I plant them.

I double checked on them today and they were still good. However, the berry's were all half eaten. I think I can blame my yard bunny, Hot Dog, and his bunny friends. I am still hopeful because I will probably never remember to pick them and I will have so many that some will survive.