Adventures at The Bunny Manse

While we were in Greensboro we stopped in the middle of the road and stared at a house. It had the exact shade of deep dark color we were looking for. We wrote down the street address and took pictures and forwarded them over to Sara, our tastefully purchased eyes and she found some really cool colors that scream US without it being right in your ear. We're going to paint swatches this weekend and see if we like them on the house!

 I went back to work on the 17th so have blissfully quiet surroundings. We started with three carpenters fixing the rot. Basically, they started on the porch and have worked their way around our house fixing any rotten wood they find. Along the way, they've found -literally - 400 lbs of squirrel nests. Squirrels ate through the crown molding and made nests in the eaves. At one point, these were fixed with metal soffits. We've replaced those with wood and are encouraging the squirrels to stay very far away from our roof and attic. We then added to the fun a set of roofers who are working on the total restoration of our slate roof. It was not leaking, it had been patched and tweaked over the years, but it had maybe 10 yrs left on it - and those 10 yrs would be full of $1,800 repairs when slates blew off (yes), the metal flashings finally gave way (yes), and the rot from water running in at weird angles. We decided to go ahead and do it now while we still have access to the s...