House for Sale & "Stuff"

Where do I begin? I have so much to tell you to get you caught up....so here I go...........

Our house is currently on the market. Here's the link if you want to see a tour:

http://tours.tourfactory.com/tours/tour.asp?t=489526

Jeff, (hubbie) is living in New Hampshire and I am here in Noblesville with the kids. Jeff is an electrical engineer who has worked for either the automotive industry or in the consumer electronics field for the last 27 years. He has worked for GM or Thomson Consumer Electroinics (they make RCA tv's). Okay, another cup of coffee and a post it note to my monitor to KISS-Keep It Simple Stupid.....I have a tendency to be a veeeerryy long story teller.

House-purchased it 1986, room/house addition began in 1999. Long ugly contractor stories with the room addition, tons of unbelievably bad work, everybody's blood on house like you wouldn't believe and completely destroying our children's view of what a "normal life" was all about.

So, a week and a half ago I hire a contractor to put a roof on our front porch. I have the highest praise for the R J & E Contracting Company, Eric and his crew!! I can't think of anyone who has had a 100% POSTIVE encounter with a contractor, but I have had the best crew of workers here for the past week!

Before roof:

Finished and looking beautiful!!

Well, you know how one project leads to another? The kids and I fixed the porch floor yesterday. This was of course after I spent the morning power washing the porch to remove the flaking paint so I can paint as soon as I can. It will look so cool when I finish!

Porch floor before, note rotting wood:

Just about finished porch floor, ran out of nails. I’ll go back to this after I finish a few quilts.

So.....also bought daughter Marcy her first sewing machine:

She's made this cute little cake pin cushion:

Here's her disappearing 9 block

I did get Janice’s monster quilt loaded last night and will be working on it today. I haven’t worked on anything this large so it will be good experience.

Also, I did sneak in a few minutes to work on Karen O’s quilt and here’s a preview of it laid out on the floor:

Lastly, here’s a pic of me that a kid took after a full day of power washing and porch floor repair: I’m thinking I really need to consider coloring my hair!! Geez!! When did I get so grey?!?!?

Hugs,

joanne