Adventures at The Bunny Manse

Morning at the Bunny Manse

Cause if you say Aunt properly it sounds like Ain't. Ruby was my grandmother. She was one of several middle siblings (9 total) who every Christmas converged on my Aunt Susan's home. At least 100 people would show up and eat, talk, cackle, and swap presents. It was only as an adult I came to realize how odd the whole thing was. Women my age have grandkids which means my mother's cousins have great great grandkids.  My Aunt Susan's house is nice, but 100 people meant half in the yard, men out in the shop, and tripping over kids. As a child I most remember that there were only two bathrooms and I wasn't really supposed to use Aunt Susan's and Uncle Jim's. No clue if that was an official rule or something I came up with in my own mind; I came up with and self imposed a lot of arbitrary rules on myself as a kid. Anyway, one of Barbara Ann (Virginia's daughter and hence my mother's double cousin)'s girl folk loved Christmas because she got to eat A...

Our view has dramatically improved from this ...  Our front door. Harris recently removed the wire screening that covered the larger grey panel.   And then we thought - wait a minute... we have painters here... what if we... Crap. There's a ton of glazing and crap from where they took the original panel out and all that. Better clean all of that out.

Thoughts and opinions welcome. The upstairs porch looks...off somehow.  With less direct glare of the sun.  Even less direct glare- the sashes will soon be SEQUIN yellow. That same faded butter on the porch trim you can barely see because overexposure.  Isn't is weird to talk about exposure when there's no film involved?

I just posted a ton of pictures without any content. This is because I see this as a place to collect and frame my thoughts about the house process with some images to trigger the ideas. We're so close. After this last stage (paint, gutters) we have some tile repair in one bathroom, some tile work in another bathroom + installing new fixtures, and then we just have PHASE 4 which is master bedroom + sunroom. We're not doing PHASE 4 for awhile. We need to pay off some credit cards and the like. Oh? You didn't know that at some point everyone who is not independently wealthy puts part of their renovation on credit cards balancing who has to be paid in cash and who you can float? You didn't realize that 0% interest for 12-18 month cards will provide you an interest free loan to buy materials that you then pay off in installments or move the money to other 0% cards? Yeah. We've got probably $30k of our project sitting out there on 0% credit cards right now + an equ...

Harris is working his way around the house fixing little bits of carpentry here and there. I guess in our zeal to get the porch and roof fixed last fall things like cracked weather boards and inadequate drip cap missed our gaze.  Harris put in new drip cap above the windows, fixed a sill and did something else. All window work here.  Here's where he put new weather boards up the side of the house by the porch. The originals that are unbroken will get used around in other places. 

Lots of pictures of the painting process. It needs to stop raining so they can finish.  These are pictures over October. Prepped, then interrupted by rain. Primed, now interrupted by rain again.  The blue you see here is the tinted primer. 

Link and zelda (queen Bernice, queen if France, just a princess)