The New House

It's taken us a little while to get settled enough to post. We statred moving into the new place at the end of Feburary. Here are some before and after pictures of our work to fix it up:

This is a picture of the house before we started stripping the old rawhide. We had to cut the tree down because it was growing into the road and the driveway in a number 4 configuration.

After many labor hours of stripping, wood treating, and recoating with Log Home the front now looks like:

This is the before and after of the back corner of the hosue.

Before and after of one of our bathrooms (there are two).

And here is the famous clown room:

We still have a lot of work to do. Oh the joys of home ownership.

Winter Pics

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First snow of the year

Gidget is tired

Sometimes Max feels like an inmate

As an intellectual, Noodle would like to let you know ...

Welcome 2009, how wonderful it is to see you!

So Max, our beagle, does not like fireworks. We were hoping it would not be too bad this year being that it was -5 outside. They were going off from about midnight to 2:30 am. I did not know that max could fit under our bed.

Max is fine now and seems to have made a full recovery. If I didn't know better I would say that he was a victim of war by his actions. Gidget, our other dog was fine and took advantage of steeling Oran's spot on the bed. All in all, there was only two spots on the floor that we needed to clean up.

Oran's night included a lot of tissue (he is getting over a cold), a little champagne, and a small superficial stab wound (that will teach him to use the dishwasher as a hand rest). Jennifer's night fared better and we both made it into the year 2009 without any other injuries or mishaps. We watched CNN's coverage of Time Square where we herd Kathy Griffin yell to some hecklers with some inappropriate words and Bourbon Street's bawdy degenerates who were flipping off the camera and yelling obscenities.

This afternoon we welcomed the 2009 year with coffee and breakfast burritos snuggled up with Max, Gidget and Noodle. There are 18 days till the O day inauguration and we are hoping for the best for us and everyone we know. Maybe we can turn the heat back on in the house soon.

Happy Holidays!

We would like to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Great New Year's Day!

We are working hard planning our goals for this upcoming year, some of which include an upgrade in living quarters. We have not really talked about New Year's resolutions, but I imagine they will be the same as all the other wants without desires and thus hard to live up to. We are having one of the coldest winters on record up here. We are doing our best to keep warm without raising our heating cost too much. This includes taking as much heat from our dogs and cat as they will let us get away with. The big debate is whether we are steeling the body heat from them or they from us?

We are all doing well, other than the cold. Gas prices have dropped to $2.31 a gallon which saves us about $40 a week. Jennifer is enjoying her new job and having a lot of fun. Oran's job is doing well and we both have reasonable expectations for the future.