Spring is Here

Gratuitous pictures of flowers in our yard... because I can.

Trees in bloom (with Steve's ladder in the background from the sealing-rats-out-of-the-attic project):

Little white flowers have popped up all along our walkways (somebody at some point had a gardening scheme for this place):

Orchids my grandma gave me (I especially like them juxtaposed with the construction debris in the background from the never-ending attic project):

I suppose I shouldn't say that the attic project is never-ending. Earlier tonight, after putting in many hours on previous days clearing out the last of the old, nasty loose-fill insulation, we finally put down new insulation in the section of our attic above the kitchen. Steve has been running speaker wire throughout the attic, so the whole-house sound project is moving along. Now that the insulation is put in, and thus now out of my way, I can continue my attic organization project. And there's been sporadic painting all the while. I am exhausted, but really pleased with how everything is coming along.

Spring is Near

The trees in our front yard are attempting to bribe me to reconsider my plans to chop them down.

By the way, I'm aware the fence needs work. We're researching options currently. We want to go wrought iron at this point, and we have a contact in that line of work, but we'll have to see how the estimate comes back.

For my next trick...

... I will make all of this disappear.

We emptied our storage unit today. All of our worldly belongings are now in our house. We sure have a lot of stuff... lots of cool stuff in my opinion. Wish me luck.