Not getting the hang of this...

Hmmm. Nate and I don't do physical labor very well together. This might seem like an odd comment until you've been a man (or a woman) trying to move a couch with a member of the opposite sex. It's like all of a sudden someone's sealed your mouth with alien-talk and given you 2 more legs that get in the way. We just don't do stuff the same way.

Remodeling a crummy little room with your husband over a rickety staircase on a ladder is much the same. Amplified by 10X. I don't really like to touch dirt (I wear gloves when cleaning, moving things, lifting things, etc), I'm bad at "letting go" of the thoughts that our open, drafty ceiling is the perfect breeding ground for the black widow spider babies to launch into my hair, the hood of my sweatshirt, even my pants waist and socks. Anyway, it gave me the creeps.

Sadly, these things happen and the camcorder isn't running...

Nate banned me from the indoor projects and sent me outside (in the rain) to go rip out the window. Here's what he did: Handed me a crowbar, a hammer and a chisel and said to try not to break the glass. So here I am, standing at the outside wall, like the outside wall of any house USA and trying to figure out what to do. I had too much pride to ask. ANyway 45 minutes later I had pulled out all of the stuff around it and the whole window. I was so proud of myself and I did it pretty much on my own. And NOT on a ladder...THANK GOD.

SO now we have Tacky House USA with OSB screwed over the window hole. It will be that way for a few weeks until we get it all replaced. And then are on to the next project. I'll post pictures soon. Once we find our still camera and/or I figure out how to load up video.

Uh...what?

We met our very, very nice neighbors the other day and Teryn, the lady, told me about how our neighborhood has a bear that wanders down from the mountain in the spring/summer and will get into your trash.

Um...really? Does anyone know where the for sale sign went!?!

Unfortunately we have ripped out 2 walls in the last two days, so I guess it would be hard to sell. We'll just put in double paned glass and not open the windows...ever. That should keep the bears out, right?

I'll post more pics this weekend...and maybe some video.

And then there was rest

We moved in on Friday
We cleaned and unpacked (slightly) on Saturday
We kept unpacking on Sunday and trimmed some of the plants in our yard.
We rested today.

By rest I mean we actually cooked a meal at home and sat down for a while. We've been doing so good on eating healthy and it went out the window when we didn't actually have access to our normal food.

Then we ran some errands to get Nate work clothes, went grocery shopping, and bought some software to plot out the actual dimensions of our house so we can figure out how a remodel would work. I'm excited about it...

No new pictures, but we're working on a video blog...stay tuned.

Our House!

These are the pictures from our listing. When we saw how messy it was, we should've known...