Category Archives: General Musings

As promised, I have finally found a few minutes to take some “after” pictures.   Enjoy Al Master Bedroom   Master Bathroom   Dining room   Dining Room   Dining room   Kitchen   Living room   Living room   Living room   Living room   Front door area   Living room   Give myContinue reading “Pictures of the new homestead”

Well, it is done!  After 6 weeks of ferrying boxes, pictures, clothes, bedding, aquariums, books, movies, music, plants (so many freakin’ plants!!!), we reached the end of the road on Saturday, March 23.  The big stuff came over.  What a day that was! I reserved a 2 ton truck from Budget Rent a Car onContinue reading “Home, Sweat, Home”

Hello all:  Well, we are that much closer to being moved in.  Every day I haul at least one load of boxes to the house.  By doing this, we will have a relatively (I HOPE!) easy move on the 23rd.  We have got our frineds, Angela, Roy, Bonnie, Dwayne, and Tina all helping.  Whew! AngelaContinue reading “The end is near!!!!”

Alex has a new pair of friends:  Our new washer and dryer.   However, we had a challenge getting everything hooked up yesterday.  We did not realize that the dryer needed a water hose attachment.  Since when do dryers need water?  Well, this one does.  Apparently, it has a steam setting…. So, we went toContinue reading “Washing machine blues”

So, yesterday was the first full day that Alex was in the house by himself (well, Nykie is there).  He is a man on a mission.  The amount of work he has put into the place already is incredible.  He has stripped wallpaper, patched holes, tightened things, repaired things, removed a myriad of screws, hooks,Continue reading “Home Renos begin!!!”

Well,  here we are in our new home. We have just started to move boxes in since Friday of last week.  We have no furniture here except for our air mattress but, we thought we would give it a shot.  Almost like camping except we have a furnace, bathroom, a function kitchen and carpeting.   NykieContinue reading “Home away from Home.”

Today I have good news and well, not so good news. First the Good News! Today we are that much closer to realizing our dream.  We met with the bank on Saturday to sign the mortgage documents and today we met with the lawyers to sign the conveyancing.  All the paperwork has been completed.  AllContinue reading “Nearing the finish line”

Well, the home inspection went better than I thought it could have gone.  Arne Larsen – West Coast Home Inspections – you are a god!!!!  You were so good.  All of my nagging concerns about the place were put to rest. Sure, there are things we will need to do to the place in theContinue reading “Home on the range…. update”

After a bit of a stressful couple of days (again) last week, we are getting sooooo much closer to realizing our dream of being home owners… Our bank, once again, decided that having 4 different documents was not enough, even though they were the ones that told us all they needed was the 4 documentsContinue reading “Nearing the “Home” Stretch and memories of my dad.”