While most of the time has been spent laying flat, reading, and watching TV, there has been a few activities over the past few weeks…
And yes, you can also call this post: Aaron is clearing out his camera from old pictures!
(As always, click on the pictures for larger versions)
- We’ve been wanting to get a fence put into the front yard - it makes the outside of the house enclosed, so if we are BBQing, doing yard work, or just reading and enjoying outside, Molly can now be with us. So we hired some folks (clearly, I couldn’t do it myself, with or without the back condition) to put in our cliche white picket fence - very white indeed until it starts raining again!
- Joelle finally found planters she likes, and put them out on the front porch:
- Molly bought me a book on Macaroni and Cheese for Father’s Day, so of course, I immediately wanted Joelle and my mother to make me one of the dishes - asparagus macaroni gratin. Fantastic, albeit a little heavy, was the universal agreement. Perhaps better as a side dish so you don’t try to eat too much of it.
- Got a Get Well Soon cookie from some really nice friends - overnighted from New Jersey, OU-certified and everything:
- My mother bought Molly a necklace thing from the Edmonds Art Fair (she went with my sister). I am not one to know these things, but everyone commented on how pretty she was with it on - on her end, at least she didn’t mind it the one time she wore it!
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Look - you can’t even tell the house had polka dots anymore :)
go us for finding leftover paint in the garage! (and a small amount of primer).
Of course, I did very little of it, since I am still not 100% (or really, even 70%), but that’s a discussion for another post. But go Joelle!
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(Aaron again)
Reminder to myself for the future: https://fortress.wa.gov/lni/bbip/search.aspx
Been looking into getting some electrical work done, so this is helpful to make sure the people I speak with are licensed (and for how long they’ve been doing their stuff…)
While I am at it: http://web1.seattle.gov/DPD/permitstatus/default.aspx - look up Seattle Permit History on a house or building
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In a previous post, I mentioned ordering an historic photo of our house. (along with, of course, my posts on sketch drawings of the place.)
We finally got in the photograph of our house, from back in 1938 (and yes, it’s got for-sale signs in the window - it sold for 800 bucks that year. Quite a bargain!)
It’s amazing how similar they look (click for larger views)
And yes, that tree got much much taller, so for the angular view, it’s pretty dominating right now. In addition, notice the deck that wraps around the house that was put in during the 1980s.
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Joelle and I have been pretty lazy about cleaning up leaves that had fallen on our front lawn this past fall. To be fair: there’s a couple of reasons for this:
- Seattle’s been very rainy this fall/winter, and who wants to rake in the rain?
- I hate raking!
As yesterday turned into a gorgeous day outside (50 and sunny), we decided it was finally time to tackle the challenge.
So I pulled out the rake:
But then quickly realized, I still hate raking! Especially with the piles of wet leaves, this seemed like an impossible task, and I felt liking I was digging up the grass in the yard with each rake-stroke.
But, as a technologist ought to, I decided there has to be a better solution - so decided to make a quick trip to Home Depot and purchase a new Toro Super Blower/Vac. Highly, highly recommended. Not only did it do a much better job than the manual work. Actually made us want to finish cleaning up all of the leaves.
A couple of nice points:
- The blower was powerful enough to disrupt all of the piles of wet leaves and move them around.
- The vacuum swooped it up nice and easy.
- A nice neighbor lady stopped by to ask how well it was working; she was thinking of getting one. Anything that gets neighbors talking is a plus in my book.
And perhaps, even more importantly, it’s fun to use :)
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For the record, relating to my last post - I also drew up my vision of a house at http://drawahouse.com. Of course, I didn’t read the instructions that this was actually supposed to be our house - just an image a of a house in general.
Plus, my artistic skills just aren’t the same as Joelle’s:
So, no reason to put this one on the fridge!
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Many of my loyal readers have asked me for a picture of what our new house looks like…. Thankfully, Joelle finally took a good photo of our place!
Great job - this one goes on the fridge :)
(from http://www.drawahouse.com - not drawn to scale)
See if you can make out the:
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Wrap around deck
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Bench we put together
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Our chimneys (preserved for legacy sake - we’ve since gotten rid of one of them - damn rains!)
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bird feeder in front, including the cute little birdy :)
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rocks and plants and stuff
Missing, of course, are the raccoons :)
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I love when people having historic photos of their houses up as artwork, so I decided to search for the information on they got these (so we can have one too…)
http://www.raincityguide.com/2007/04/14/historic-photos-of-your-seattle-home/
has all of the info. Sending an email to them now.
Update, February 18, 2008: Pictures are now in (actually they came a while ago, but just posting today).
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Zillow.com recently started posting neighborhood demographic reviews (based off of US Census data). Interesting reading through them for all of the places I’ve lived to see how they compare to the type of person I was at the time. Pretty close, for the most part; I guess it’s true that people live by people like them.
In order:
- Oak Park, MI (very, very young) - http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/MI-Oak-Park-neighbors
- Southfield, MI (lived until high school) - http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/MI-Southfield-neighbors
- West Bloomfield, MI (high school) - http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/MI-West-Bloomfield-neighbors
- St. Louis, MO (”the college”) - http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/MO-Clayton-neighbors
- Redmond, WA (”the apartment”) - http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/WA-Redmond-neighbors
- Downtown Seattle (”the steps”) - http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/WA-Seattle/Downtown-neighbors
- Eastlake, Seattle (”the condo”) - http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/WA-Seattle/Eastlake-neighbors
- Queen Anne, Seattle (”the house”) - http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/WA-Seattle/West-Queen-Anne-neighbors
I’ll use this to read through these more and come up with some uber-analysis in the future, but for now, seemed like it was a good way to save away the full links.