retaining wall

here are all those giant rocks, placed neatly along the side yard to form an awesome retaining wall.






and the back deck.

some landscaping

i don't know if you can see him/her or not, but there is a fox on the bog. click on the picture.



and finally some landscaping, sorta. last week was busy, busy with the front wall and walkway, as well as spreading loam. piles of mulch are waiting to be spread out front. this week its sprinklers and then grass. that will probably be it for a while. energy and $$ are low. anybody wanna buy our old house???? deerjumpproperties.com

give blood

how desperate am i to find something to post??? i gave blood yesterday and woke up to this nifty bruise today. there was a problem with the mechanism that switches from the big ole bag of blood and lets them fill tubes for testing. my nurse thought i had clotted or something and told me to keep squeezing. it wasn't me. really it wasn't. i kindly let them fill the tubes from my other arm, which doesn't like donating as much as the other one, but that bruise was not even worth a picture. so anyway, it doesn't hurt and everyone should donate. :)

rocks and walls

even though they dug up at least a million gigantic rocks here last summer, we STILL needed more for the retaining wall. sadly, we had to PAY to get them. aren't they large and just beautiful?? the girls, (for perspective casey) are the daughters of one of our friends from high school, sheryl. aren't they pretty?




these are the rocks doing their job and believe it or not we still need more!!



a little contouring of the front yard (if you can even call it that yet), where there will be another low wall.

fun in the tub

here are a couple more pictures of gramma's room. her bathroom and part of her closet. woo hoo!!





see what happens when you leave a girl unattended with a bottle of body wash.

gramma's room

is finally fit to take some pictures. since she is not here right now, we have kinda been slacking getting her things in order. thank you debbie for helping out!! here we go


this is the bedroom/back part


bureau


the living room/front




it really does look nice. still needs some pictures, but she will do all that when she comes home.

what did i miss

the guest room




a few more angles of the kitchen and family room

new furniture

the new furniture was delivered on tuesday. we still need to hang up pictures and bring in some lamps




red sox troll!!

snow

monday's forcast....less than 1 inch of snow.






it was mostly gone by tuesday and today the temp is 53....now we have mud

more moving

i love this dining room. the curtains still need some sewing, but that's them hanging on the chair


three pictures of the master bedroom

we've moved

i wanted to wait until all the curtains and pictures and mirrors were hung to update the blog, but there appears to be no end to the amount of junk we have accumulated over the last 20 years. so...every day we bring over more boxes and i never seem to get them all unpacked and put away. i did manage to find the camera today. very weak battery. anyway i took some pictures of some of the rooms. here they are.

master bath

master bath

side view i thought i edited this one so that it would be turned the right way, but i guess i goofed

screen porch, minus the screens, they are in the cellar waiting for spring

and this cute little nook is actually supposed to be a cabinet/bookshelf.....i am not sure how that got put on hold. i had a picture of it hanging up for the longest time. hmmm

moving

we got our occupancy permit yesterday!!! the plan is to move most of our things this weekend. we seem to have a lot of stuff. the next post SHOULD have pictures of some of that stuff in the new house.

gramma's room

two views of gramma's room




two views of gramma's bathroom




and the shower in the guest bathroom




i forgot to take a picture of gramma's walk in closet. i hope you aren't too disappointed. i will take it soon.

every thing is just about done now. we just have to take care of a couple of things so that we pass inpection and get our occupancy permit. maybe this weekend??