Here are the pictures of the shed.  Thanks to my family and Matt Lanner, we have a decent shed that stays dry! I have also attached other pictures of the primed house ready to paint.  It was exciting to see this layer, what Andy said looked like a ghost of a house, because it was…

In actuality the white is alabaster but Raekwon never talked about alabaster Wallabies.  That last line probably missed the intended audience for this blog by a longshot and is the reason Kate should be responsible for these postings. The house is painted!  We now have a blue house, and a blue porch, and blue cement…

While much of downtown Raleigh was busy removing fallen trees left by the massive tornado last month, Kate and I were busy cutting down perfectly healthy standing trees, albeit with a slightly guilty consciences.  Finally got my heirloom chainsaw back and proceeded to open up the backyard with hopes of starting from scratch with the…

Saturday, April 16, started out with an Earth Day celebration.  Andy and I along with a few friends cleaned up a very small and particularly dirty part of the Raleigh Greenway.  We managed to fill up at least a dozen heavy duty garbage bags full of trash.  We did something.  Too bad that afternoon destruction…

The photos below are very similar to the ones from the last post, except they have cleaned up the house and yard.  It is now starting to feel like we may have made a good decision and the house is beginning to feel like a home!  The contractor has also moved the HVAC vent in…

We finally took some more pictures in order to better see the progress over the last two months  The changes have not been very dramatic as of late but are vastly improving the home.  Over the last week and a half we have had much of the duct work for the HVAC installed.  Putting HVAC…

Last week they added the siding to the new addition and replaced some of the rotten and different siding.  You can no longer see through the dining room wall!  When looking at the new siding, we thought it was poorly aligned since it didn’t match up with the rest of the siding.  On closer inspection,…

They have got the foundation shored up around the back half of the house and closed in the old gaps.  The contractor also has the kitchen framed up and a new roof across both the laundry and kitchen in the back of the home.  It is a pretty dramatic difference between the original home with…

Last weekend, Andy and I went to clean up the yard a little bit.  We threw away three rusted box springs down to the metal, a mattress, another box spring, two tires, and various clothes, trash, and beer bottles.  There was another rusted metal box spring in the yard, but a tree had grown around…