Six days and counting...

I'm pretty sure I'm ready for January '09 to be over and done with. This month has been way too eventful for my liking! However, it seems like life is headed back to normal (whatever THAT is!).

Things were turned a little topsy-turvy as the repair work on the house commenced. We are SO LUCKY to have good friends who were able to do everything that needed to be done: Jason, who called James up and said "Let's take care of that trampoline!" and Nick, whose company actually did the roof replacement, porch repair and took care of the tree. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!

Nick and his crew pulled up bright and early Monday morning and started ripping off the old roof, making way for the new, much improved(!) roof!







Within a few hours, the whole roof was stripped and ready for the new roof! I couldn't believed how FAST they worked. They almost got the new roof on by the end of the day, but they ended up having to come back the next morning a finish up.





While all of this was going on, James decided to get going on a project we've been planning for awhile- doing something about our bathroom AKA The Pit of Despair. Here it was before:




Here's what it looks like NOW:




This is the area behind the door. There used to be a full-length mirror there. (Aside- somehow we didn't notice this mirror until AFTER we were all moved in. The open door always covered it. The first time James took a shower in the bathroom, he started the shower with the door open. I shut it at some point during the shower, and when he was done, he drew back the shower curtain and was greeted with a shot of himself in the mirror! To say he was a little startled would be putting it mildly. Good times!)


Anyway, there was a bit of mildew behind the mirror, but more importantly we discovered the home of all of the ants that seem to invade our bathroom every spring and summer!

All of those dark lines are ant tunnels. There doesn't seem to be any ants in residence at the moment, so James is going to whatever needs to be done to insure they don't come back!

So at the moment, we only have one bathroom in livable condition, but at least everything outside is shipshape and shiny!

The new roof looks lovely...



The part of the tree that was on our property has been removed...(After five attempts to talk to the weird neighbors about the tree we washed our hands of it. I predict the tree will still be there a year from now!)



...and now instead of three columns on the front porch (The one to the far left was completely knocked loose in the storm- it fell off a few days later! Luckily it wasn't structurally necessary to the porch!)...


...we now have two! (Which James still needs to paint.)


Now that all of THAT is over and done with, I'm ready to think about other things...paint colors for the bathroom...finishing a book on the physiology of sex that I started a week ago...our garden...Valentine's Day...what I'm going to make for dinner tomorrow...you know, the normal stuff!