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Planning for the fall

The summer has gotten away from us. We planned to be PRODUCTIVE! and finish the playhouse for the girls and swingset by the end of June. Then we realized that the back fence area needed to be dealt with by our adjoining property owner, which destroyed the fence, making putting girls in that space a very bad idea. We're still waiting to hear from the church about whether or when they are taking down the huge tree that's leaning over their building since that impacts us fixing the fence.


And then there's the flooding at the little house. We replaced ducts in early July to have them wash away and damage the unit in a massive storm. We're waiting for insurance (WE HAVE FLOOD INSURANCE) to tell us how much they will pay then we're moving hvac to the attic. And then putting on a new roof as well. It's going to be great. Our property taxes on the house tripled as well, so this year, the house is just a loss for us. Overall we're in the black, but we've owned the house for 14 years so it would be horrible if we weren't overall.


We still need to finish Little Pebble Creek, there's about a days worth of work there arranging the downspout, weeding, mulching, and making sure everything is working as we want it to work.


And we're trying to plan to get the girls bathroom - for which we've had materials waiting on hand for over 2 years, finished. It would involve painting, some demo, putting a tub where the shower is, stuff like that.


And trying to figure out when/if/how we ultimately build the closet in the girls room. Margot is almost two, we should have her clothes is something other than plastic bins in the dining room. the bins are pretty, but really. I have a bunch of dress up clothes for her from Madeline in the attic that I can't get down because Madeline uses half of the pretend rack for her own clothes storage. We've finally just hit the breaking point there.


Maybe some or any of this will be resolved by fall.

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