Hi all!! How has your week been? Ours is fine, and the weather is gorgeous today. Lots of work going on here at the moment, and I'm considering going to a hotel for a few days. 😄 😜 We have two men painting today, and all three doors are open (since they are the things being painted). The breeze is nice, but we have a few bugs now. There are two tree guys here, and they're using chain saws and wood chipper, and whew! Oh, and the country music station is being played at a fairly loud volume. I think I'm going to have to put some cotton in my ears. 😉 In all seriousness, these men have been just great. They've been good workers, and so very amenable about what we want done, as well as being courteous, too. The exterior of the house is looking good now, but there's still a lot of cleanup to do. I'm so excited now about getting our new roof. That should be the icing on the cake. Isn't paint a wonderful thing, though? Having the doors and all the trim work painted makes everything look clean and new. It's hard to show that with pictures, though, because all the tools and equipment are still sitting everywhere. I will share a few photos with you -- try to imagine how things will look when the yard and porch are cleaned up.
Hello again all! How has your week been? Ours has been busy, but overall good. Work continues on the house; we've selected a front door, and now we're looking at front porch light fixtures. We've also had two tree people by here this week to talk about taking down several big trees.
I wrote earlier about our house getting a "facelift." I don't think I mentioned in that previous post that the house turned 50 years old this year -- it was built in 1971. It was definitely time to make some repairs and improvements. We were actually ready to get started on this last summer, and then Covid came along.
Hi everyone -- I'm glad you're here! Can you believe it's June? We're almost halfway through another year. My Grandma once told me that the older you get, the faster time flies -- she was so right. Did you have a nice weekend? We did; I wanted to write a post for Memorial Day but just didn't get around to it. We've been awfully busy for the past week now. The work has begun on our house, and I hope to have some pictures for you soon. My mom kindly got me some fresh strawberries on Saturday. She lives a couple of miles from a strawberry patch, and most years she pays them a visit (or two). :) These were very pretty berries, and I appreciate her getting them for me. My mom buys the already picked strawberries, although you can pick your own there if you prefer.
Hi there everyone. Are you having a good week? Can you believe it's almost June now?! This year is really flying by! Thank you all for your kind comments on my post about Duncan. We're taking good care of him and giving him lots of love.
Hello everyone. I apologize for the fact that I have not visited your blogs and commented recently. I will definitely do better in the coming days, if nothing else goes wrong. We found out two and a half weeks ago that Duncan has cancer and he's going to die. We were so shocked -- it was very hard to process. He's only seven years old. I mentioned a while ago that we were taking him to a specialist because he wasn't using his left rear leg when walking. Based on what our regular vet had told us, we thought we were going to be scheduling orthopedic surgery with the specialist. Instead we were told that Duncan has a malignant tumor in his hip and spine -- something called nerve sheath cancer, which I had never heard of before. It's aggressive, and we basically had three treatment options. The first was to treat with medications (steroids and pain medicine). The second option was to have his back leg amputated, and his prognosis was six months to live. The third choice was to have the surgery and do radiation treatments, which might give him a year to a year and a half. These last two would be very expensive, by the way.
Did you think I meant a facelift for me? 😎 LOL! I could probably use one, but that's not really on my to-do list anytime soon (or probably not in this lifetime). Anyway -- what will be getting a facelift is our house. Yay!! We've been saving our money and holding out until we could pay for this with cash, so our house will get a new roof, all our exterior trim work will get re-painted (and any repairs needed will be done). Our four front-porch columns will be replaced, as some damage from rot has occurred. We'll also get new shutters (probably the two panel style) and either a new front door, or at the very least, the existing door will be repainted. We've gotten quotes over the last couple of weeks, and made our decisions, so I'm ready for the work to commence!!
