It is really time for an update.
This morning, Feb 8, it was -7° after a night of snowfall. The weather since New Year’s Eve has so far been a jojo between extreme cold and full storm to severe thaw and now cold and snow again. I’ve been busy moving food kept outside in and out of freezers. Stupidly enough I decided that -15° was perfect for sorting my basement freezer, whereupon the temperature immediately rose 24° within hours …
So far I’ve spread salt and fed the birds #sarasspringcount24
I’m stripping last of the old wall paper today. We’ll see how far I get. So far it’s a huge mess.
There is a reason to start on this side of the room - electricity!
I need some moving and additional sources for things like micro, tiny freezer and whatever electric cooking and baking machines and I’m not allowed to do installations myself - for security and insurance reasons.
Walls have to be finished before I contact the electrician. #sarasspringcount24 #renovations & #redecorating
So here's a (long) story about how we ended up renovating two houses in two years. I don't know if the story has a happy ending yet, because I'm still crying myself to sleep.
In 2010, my husband and I bought our first house. It was about 80 years old and formerly a house on a Canadian Forces Base. It's small and has some issues, but it's cute.
This is what it looks like now (well, the picture is actually from last fall), after we had the outside painted. It used to be the sort of green that looked like it should have wavy stink lines over it. Now it's this cute blue and white.