Getting ready for the 1st

This weekend has been a busy one around the pondarossa.

Hubby washing, taping and painting Dedemona (check out the pic ) getting her ready for the Shock Rod and Hearse car show at Texas Frightmare Weekend this coming Saturday.

I will already be up there, I am staying the weekend and enjoying all the festivities at TFW, the movies, the V.I.P. party with the stars, all of it!

I am SO glad hubby is taking Dessie up there we should win something (maybe) last year two of their categories was "most likely to survive the zombie horde" and "most likely to star in a B-movie". Just look at her she should take at least one of those home!

Plus we have been mowing and weedeating and yet it looks like nothing has been done. All this rain we keep getting keeps it growing like mad!

My roses I got from Hubby's nanny's place when she passed last July are all budding if not blooming! I am very surprised since they laid out in the sun for a week and a half no dirt or water on the roots until we planted. But good old heirloom roses are hard to kill.

I need to find some boards to make some raised beds. Trying to find them for free but no luck.

Gonna keep looking. But I did get 4 tomato plants in the ground, they were leftover from my mom's little flowerbed garden she is trying out. No idea what kind so it will be a surprise if they make it.

I still have no sewing room so no crafty stuff happening due to that room is still a rental for our roommate and because of that I haven't been able to unpack my crafty boxes.(going nuts from lack of crafting!!) But on the upside, after the before mentioned car show I get to redecorate the car!!! New curtains, paint, ceiling, and seat covers! We are gonna try to hit the Hearsecon in Englewood, CO in June. So now I get to make a little redneck, horror home on wheels. This could be very interesting to say the least! I think a revisit to my Texas Chainsaw Massacre DVD may be needed for some inspiration. LOL

I haven't even really been in the mood to get my camera out! I don't know what is wrong with me. I've just been kinda Meh! I am gonna have to start forcing myself to get out and do something. Besides I have loads to do to turn my yard into someplace I would want to be.

My bathroom is done!!

I finally got the shower fixed, everything REscrubbed(stupid plumber making a mess on my walls...grumble grumble grumble) I got my granny's old Neil the Frog canisters, napkin holder out on the counter. And I got a great deal on eBay for two Neil the Frog hanging planters/candle holders which look good hanging from the hooks in the ceiling. Oh and I FINALLY found a cheap 84" long shower curtain for the shower in there, most I found they wanted $120 for. I think not!!And it is so AWESOME to have my very own bathroom(for the time being)
No nasty boy messes, my own personal sanctuary.

How not to grow tomatoes.

This is ONE cherry tomato plant. It covers an 8'X8' section of the yard. My MIL planted it and watered it everyday. Big mistake.
As long as she was watering it all it did was produce vines, no flowers. Finally after three months of watering it and no flowers let alone tomatoes she decided to just forget about it. Well that was when it turned white with flowers! Then by the beginning of October it was COVERED in tiny red tomatoes.
Needless to say we had plenty of late season tomatoes.

Oh and that is my handsome, 6' tall, hubby Ronnie picking some of the stragglers.

Photos of how we left the old house.

We took every window and door out of the house

And some of the brick off the outside too. Some frineds came in and ripped all the interior walls out for the wood and took the hard wood floor out too.
This is where the garage was, but we took it. Now hubby is thinking of calling the city and complaining about the how tall the county let the grass grow. Anything over 4" is a code violation. LOL we just think it would be funny.

my sewing/craft room before




And after, we are still looking for some kind of compromise on the flooring. I want one thing hubby wants another. Men!?!

Hubby's barter

Ronnie traded this MGTD kit car with out the motor for this


a all original Willy's pick up complete!

I recovered the dinning room chairs.

Before

and After

My new kitchen island

Pictures from this weekend

This is the rat snake we found yesterday in the back yard.

This is the scorpion from the bedroom Friday night, after I let it loose in the backyard

and this is the Mississippi Kite hanging out in the front yard.
I didn't get a pic of the hummingbird. But the feeder is out so maybe later I can.

The guest room

Is done!
All the way down to the plugs and switches!!
It is green with a faux rock wall.
It turned out great.
Well we still need to find curtains that will fit the windows.
Kinda hard to get the curtains I like they fit a 40" window and these are 23"
I think I shall have to make some.

January 5, 2009

On the 5th we had a day of freezing rain (the day before it was 70*)
And that is the day I discovered we have bluebirds!
I had two cute little blue devils hopping in my drive way and playing in my twisted oak.
They are just so cute!!

Hey everybody!!

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My sister was nice enough to let me use her washer while she is at work so I actually have access to the internet for a few hours!!!
I know it may sound off that I have to use her washer but 28 days after purchasing my new one it crapped out on me.
Keeps saying the door is open when it is securely locked and it won't run.
LG is sending a guy out Tuesday to fix it.(Gods know that Conn's won't send anyone all they can do is lie to ya)
Any way I thought I would post a few pics of my dinning room suite I got off of eBay.
I think it was an awesome buy at $500. Seats six and looks great in the dinning room.
Which I forgot to snap a pick of before coming to my sister's.(so sue me!)
And my granny's 25th anniversary china looks spectacular in the hutch!
I have been waiting 20 years to have a place to put those dishes now I do!

In and Out

I just got off my phone with the phone company...I put in the disconnect order for my phone and internet! (sigh!)
So I will be on and off, I can still post from my cell but no pics.
Hopefully in a few weeks I will have my service up and running (at least in good weather!)
Take care.

Happy New Year

So they say what ever you do on new years is what you will be doing all year long... Well it looks as if I will be painting and do laundry all year!
but at least we now have the front bedroomCOMPLETELY done, living room is waiting flooring, kitchen has gotten new color on the ceikings trim and all cabinets.
How we found time to go eat lunch with my sister for her birthday I do not know.
Tomorrow we move in!!!

house update

Ok me and my sister shampooed the bedroom carpet. All that is left in that room is two pieces of molding and three window sills to paint. And hubby is changing out all the switches and sockets. Oh and we have to put the pretty covers on them.

never underestimate sisters.

Ok out kitchen/dinning room is big. It's total measurement is 28X15 with 8 foot ceilings. And the entire thing is covered in nasty 1970 fake wood paneling.
I hate that stuff, specially when it has been painted. And since we are going to repaint it I wanted all the little cracks and crevices filled in to give me a smooth wall effect.
Everyone told me it would take so long to do it, one even said a week. Well they don't know me and my sister. We had the whole room and even two little passage ways knocked out in 90 minutes!
Tonight I get to start sanding it all, hopefully get done, so we can start taping everything up to start spraying primer and paint.

changes are coming

We got our beautiful French Provencal(sp?) Dinning room suite. It has table 6 chairs, hutch and a buffet. It was made in the 50's and we make owners number 3.We had to drive an hour one way to get it but well worth the $500 it cost and the time to load. Gotta love eBay!
We are now shopping for carpet and paint. Hopefully by friday we will have the colors picked out and some new paint on the walls.
Oh and the washer/dryer combo will be delivered then. No more lugging heavy stincky baskets of dirty laundry around town. I have been do that for 10 years.
We already have two coats of paint/sealer on the concrete floor in the cat room, two more coats to go,then we are putting various carpeted shelves at all sorts of angles and levels so they have tons of places to climb and perch. We are also planning on installing what hubby calls "kitty stripper poles" poles that go from floor to cieling and wrapped in sisal rope for them to climb. I am planning on putting nesting box type perches on those.Not to mention the cool kitty toys I have made and bought for them to roll around on the floor with. So by the time I get done with that room I will probably want to move in there with them.
As soon as the floor and paint in all the house is done we are moving in.

Yesterday...

As of yesterday at 3:15 P.M. we became the proud owners of a house!
The relief is great.
Excitement high as we get to plan what to do with it.
Can't wait.

We have a date...well sort of...

We will be closing on the house we live now on Wednesday Dec. 10, that will make it 9 years to the day that we owned this place.
Then either Thursday or Friday we will be closing on the new place!

Then the REAL fun begins!!!
All the dirty work of paint, drywall, tile and carpet.
Can't wait!

It getting real...

We signed the loan papers yesterday.
Now we just have to wait until closing.
Wish it was next week.
I want this over with.
The past six months have been nothing but stress and anxiety.
I want to go home.