Our New House

 

We closed on our house last week and have spent almost every day working on it. We've had to do demolition in the basement to get out the moldy (and damp) drywall. We still have some mold remediation to do (involving washing the studs and then spraying bleach on everything). Then it will be on to priming and painting the first floor, and reroofing.


As you can see, the porch needs a little work. We have to put up a railing, so I had the idea of making a built-in bench along the side of the porch instead.


And these are the huge bushes that I still need to trim on the side of the garage. There is also a line of dead bushes in the backyard along the fence that need to be removed.


We've met some of the neighbors. To the left is a 90-ish year old man and his wife. His three children all live within six miles of him. The next day when Mark got to the house, the neighbor was shooting off his shotgun to scare away the geese on his lawn. (He was actually shooting the geese, just shooting above their heads to scare them away.)

Mark also met the mayor's husband, who apparently lives down the street from us.