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October. We finally hung some extra lighting in the backyard last month. I've always loved the aesthetic that clear hanging bulbs provide to a space, had to have it for my backyard. -AP

Made another adult purchase today…

Dope-ass table and chairs, to be delivered Tuesday.

Bought from a place called Couch Farm. Coolest name in the biz? I think so.

-AP

:) Hung a lot of pictures today. The office, hallway, our bedroom and the front living room aka music room all look way better now. I don't want to post pictures because pictures and posters on walls really needs to be appreciated in person. -AP

Our attic looks like a winter wonderland!

We got new insulation and a “radiant barrier” which supposedly makes our house certified “green”.

Yay for lower electricity bills!

-AP

No more Zinsco fire hazard panel. The chance of our house catching fire just went down by a lot.

:) -AP

This is what happens a month after you buy your house when careless idiots have done the remodel.

Your sink falls because it wasn’t properly installed.

-AP

Garage door

Update: my handy man AKA lovah has miraculously fixed the garage door! Now we can both park in the garage like real-ass home owners. -AP

#merica

That, my friends, is a CUSTOM cat box designed by Dave Harris. This is an elegant solution to the age old “it smells like cat shit in here” problem, executed very well. It’s a tiny door in the kitchen that leads to a big box in the garage which contains the litter box.

The best part is, the cat actually uses it. It’s amazing.

Other than that, we’ve tackled a plumbing issue that turned out to be caused by “like, tons” (not literally I hope) of baby wipes in our mainline pipe, as told to me by Mr. Roto Rooter. It was causing our master toilet to flush only about 50% of the time, which was infuriating.

On Tuesday our water heater didn’t want to send hot water to our shower. Jacob called his dad after work, who told us to reset it and turn the temp up a bit and the problem seems to he solved.

Now we have to get a garage door repair person to come figure out why our garage door doesn’t want to respond properly to our button pushing.

Yay home ownership! -AP

What came out of the yard... Not bad for a 67 year old man and a 31 year old child

Cheers

3 years ago today, Jacob and I each exited our comfort zones and shared a first date with an internet stranger. Sparks flew as two introverts fumbled to keep the conversation going while drinking beer and not eating the artichoke dip we’d hastily ordered. I think we mostly talked about cats.

I love you, Jacob. Here’s to 3 more. And lots more after that.

The guys did yard work today. Holy moly, what a difference! Our house is starting to look GOOD. I still want to get rid of those extra tall bushes closer to the house though. They are seriously inhibiting light from entering the front of the house. -AP

TVs hung! -AP

Also, forgot to post about the recessed mirror being done. Not to mention we now have an outlet in both bathrooms. Yay! -AP

Beautiful backyard

Sunday

This morning I woke up to the sound of motorized yard trimmers outside my bathroom window. I got excited. I came out back and it's been transformed! It looks like people live here now :) Jacob and his dad spent the morning trimming the twisty bush on the far side of the yard, removing dead bushes and trimming and weeding the bushes next to the house. I can't wait til they work their magic in the front yard! I'm gonna come home to a NEW new house. :) Next they're hanging the TVs so we're reading for the cable installation tomorrow. Beef stew in the crock pot.. That's my contribution. -AP

Happy 5th of July!

Today they're installing the recessed medicine cabinet in our master bath and adding outlets to both bathrooms, and adding the second under cabinet light in the kitchen. Yesterday Jacobs dad also installed a big fluorescent light in the garage so we can actually see out there at night. Hopefully we don't run into any more unforeseen problems today. -AP

"Take a picture of me in front of my crepe myrtle!" - tipsy Ashlee

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