Spring Gardens and Plantings

Charles built a raised bed garden for me and his Aunt Nicky provided us with an abundance of seedlings to plant. I can't wait to see how this turns out...

Our raised beds

Soil delivery

Planting area near pool

Hanging baskets

Jalapenos

Blueberries transplanted from my parent's yard

Seedlings in the ground!

Basement Remodel...Is This Nesting?

When we moved into our home in December 2010. Before we could move in, we had to have our basement completely demoed and spent a lot of our budget on mold remediation. Our home had been in foreclosure for about eighteen months and needed some serious TLC.

Projects got added to the list in order of necessity. Our basement had been torn out down to the studs and left. Three years later and we finally decided it was time to finish that project. Our basement is just one room extending to a porch and the pool area. We wanted to go with a functional look that would be easy to keep clean. I can imagine in several years, there will be lots of little feet running in and out of the basement from the pool!

Removing old ducts

Sheetrock going in

Spray in insulation prepping for exposed ceilings

New metal ducts

Thin brick going up on end wall

Concrete stain choices for the floor

Lighting added

The exterior porch

Opening the end wall

New framing

Peggy & Earl's Wedding

We went to Stuart, FL to celebrate Peggy and Earl's wedding. Charles and I enjoyed it but I was EXHAUSTED! I couldn't make it out for the late nights and couldn't keep up with some of the party-goers. We stayed at the lovely marina and it was a mini-vacay.

17 weeks pregnant!

Happily ever after!

My First Home

I was out running our pet taxi for work and happened to pass my parent's first home on Alberta Drive. My parents bought this house around 1982 and lived there until we moved to Shadowrock Drive in 1986. This is where I lived for the first two years of my life!

Updates at the Kennel

Here are some of the things we have been doing to prepare for our inventory to arrive~

Our sign is finally here!

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The front desk in progress

Late night work to be done!

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Lot's of painting to be done!

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It's all coming together...