Adventures at The Bunny Manse

Staying busy! We found a pair of lights for $25 at an estate sale. Between the two there was enough for Harris to make one really nice newel post light. He has a flicker light in it. I don't like the flicker light. Owel.  He also installed the fretwork in the hallway!  And upstairs too! From the landing and then looking down the hall.  Everything is getting ready for interior trim paint! So very close to having painters come in and tear the house up to place the final touches of wonderful.  Thoughts on which white to use for the trim?

Jessie Gladdek came over on a Saturday morning and caught my girls in their natural habitat. Margot full of smiles, Madeline full of fun. The one serious of the shoot. Full album here 

David Glick fixed the broken glass in our attic window!

Two pairs of new shorts, one grey one green. A pair of jeans, a pair of slacks or two. Underpants, lots of underpants. Socks: calf, ankle, cuff, black & white. Three button down shirts, two polos, two undershirts, five t shirts. A robe. New slippers. Monkey pants. Cozy pants. Exercise shorts: two pair. A hoodie.  Note cards, batman stamps, journal. Pictures of me, pictures of them. Rodger lion. A nice pen. Shampoo, soap, toothpaste. Floss. A razor, shaving cream. Nail clippers.

The wonderful Sara mailed our tax credit application in February and shared pictures she took the day we bought the house. Since April 2013 we spent at least $275,000 on demo, electrical, plumbing, asbestos, flooring, termites, exterior rot and damage, plaster repair, chimney repointing, new window sashes, installing a single kitchen, and a replacement slate roof. We sold two houses and a vacant lot in order to make this happen. Then we got a mortgage. Deep Breath. The front of the house When you first walk into the house... The stairway and windows I saw and fell in love with.  The view from the stairs. Notice the clear NO TRESPASSING sign taped above the fancywork. The room where Jazz was born sometime in the late 1990s. This is now our dining room. From the other side of the dining room. This floor was shot from termite damage.   This is a little room off a little hallway that we currently use as storage for the vaccum...

Snow day at Oakwood Park...  The view from the beveled window out to the world all covered in snow   The view from my window when we woke up! Winter wonderland indeed!

ByDeath toll =0 Near death toll= Harris, pipes, furnace Tuesday 2-17-15 = Ice storm Wednesday = Natalie gingerly walks to work after picking up breakfast at Scratch where the other three sit and enjoy their food. Madeline playing outside, Margot napping, Harris goes outside, slips on the back stairs, and hits his head- hard - on the concrete steps. He blacked out, forgot part of the morning and after Natalie got home, he was taken to the ER. No crack to the skull or brain bleed, but he's on brain rest (no screens, quiet, rest, lots of sleep) for a head injury just the same. Thursday = our lemon of a furnace is replaced. Coldest day in years, recording breaking really, and we have no heat downstairs while Harris is on brain rest upstairs. Girls leave the house for lunch and shopping. Natalie is sick, but not as sick as Harris. We wandered around the Trosa thirft store, southpoint mall, target...anywhere warm where the baby could be pushed in the stroller. I know we l...