Renovations

How do people blog more often? I seem incapable of doing it. My apologies to the few who actually read this blog.

When I get home tonight about 10 pm, I will find a wonderful Joe event awaiting me. Somehow as he was putting dishes away he managed to knock the stove hood halfway off -- it's now being supported by an upside down laundry basket sitting on top of the stove. Since we are actually redoing some things inside and outside, my first thought is to perhaps get a new one and have it correctly vented. I know the one we have does not do anything but blow hot air back out into the tiny kitchen. I will have to give that some thought.

Since Joe and I will be living in the same house we now own for the rest of our lives, I decided it needed sprucing up and it needed it badly. So I am being a bit bossy about what we are doing, and was told so, but I really want to be able to live with what we have accomplished when the money is all spent. I was the one who went to the bank, made all the arrangements, and I want to be the one to make the decisions this time.

We have already had old trees taken down and stumps ground down. Now I have to decide what colors to use. I am leaning toward dusty blue for the house with off white accents, including painting the front porch white. We are getting estimates this week on siding, windows, and roof. Yipes! In my mind, I see it as a beach cottage without the beach. It may be too shabby chic for Joe. Of course, anything is better than the faded avocado green, the half shutter left from the previous windstorms, and the graying and wobbly decks on the front and back of the house.

Hopefully I will write more often and keep anyone interested caught up on the details of our renovation.