Princess Bedrooms

This is my room.  I am SO not pink, light blue and gray a person.  I've gotten paint - White Sage Glidden paint.  Have to replace outlet covers, sandpaper the gloss paint, clean the carpets and then paint.  Joy

This will be my sister's room.  She also plans on painting - LOL!

Wrestling Match of the Week

In this corner, two disabled women over 50!  In that corner, two government surplus file cabinets weighing in at a g-dawful wth weight!  Height of just over 2ft and over 3ft long.

The cabinets are still on the porch, we'll tackle bringing them in tomorrow.

Today we went in search of thrift stores.  I did find a computer desk a reasonable price.  I'll move the writing desk into my room tomorrow.

We're very tired today.

Brilliant Ideas - lack of abiity = comical/painful mess

Today we went to Atlanta to the Habitat for Humanity Restore looking for kitchen cabinets, bookcases or something that would work to begin our wall of bookcases.  The idea is to have cabinets on the bottom and shelves on top to prevent the cats from lying on the bottom shelves and tossing everything off.

We found government metal file cabinets - the long ones at a reasonable price.  Two volunteers got them into the car (which struggled a bit getting them home).  Then we faced the problem: now what the f*ck do we do?  How do we get them out of the car?  Sliding them over the carpet was not going to be easy.

I came up with an idea and told Mom to open the garage door and bring down the sledge hammer.  She stopped dead in her tracks.  "Just grab it, okay?"

She brought me the sledge hammer and I took it to the broken pressboard bookcase the movers broke.  I then put one of the shelves under a shelving unit and that enabled us to slide it out of the car and onto the dolly on end.  Unfortunately it was too heavy for the hand trucks we have.

Okay, now what?

We went to Home Depot and rented an appliance hand truck and then struggled to get it over rough ground (complete with rocks and small rain gulleys) and got to the back porch.  We tipped the darn thing up onto the stairs and got it into the porch.

Repeat for 2nd shelving unit.  We looked like the Three Stooges tackling a problem with a missing Stooge!

Step 3 (or is it 7?) - hope the strained muscles and disabled bodies hold up long enough to get the hand truck back to Home Depot.

At Home Depot we bought furniture coasters to move these things inside the house and a new weed whacker.

We left the shelving units on the porch for now.  We'll move them tomorrow.

We love Home Depot.  We love Aleve meds.  We love the friendly people in the South.

Welcome!

I am a first time homeowner of a house in a southern state in the US.  It is has been quite an adventure getting here (and darn stressful at times).  The house my sister, mother and I purchased is... challenging.  We got it for a low price which ensured it is... challenging.

In this blog I'm going to tell how we got here and the progress in fixing up the place.

Necessary fixes: hot water heater, electrical, plumbing, paint, cleaning the rugs, new locks, weed whacking, digging out the garden area, replacing the retaining wall, repair the A/C........

We love Lowe's and Home Depot (and Harbor Freight!)

Wal-Mart and K-Mart as well!

Looks great!  We were definitely intrigued by the pictures on the internet (what few of them were).  The listing said "custom paint" inside.  When we got here it was more like: "WTH? Were these people on drugs?"

In posts to follow, I'll detail the process of finding a house while living in California, buying it without seeing it physically, the trip across country with numerous cats, two small dogs, my mother and very little luggage in an old Ford Bronco in 104F weather.

btw: we do love the house and are up for the challenges (we hope)