Living Room and then All Those Beautiful Flowers!

There are beautiful throughout the yard.  This is our last weekend to get the place fixed up for many lucky families coming to enjoy this fabulous place.  Thought you would enjoy the flowers....

Bocce Ball!

We are fortunate for many reasons, but one of them would be our lawn.  There must be an acre of lawn in front of the house.  We are fortunate because our good friend Lorraine Hellum's sister, Mary Pittman is our neighbor and it watching over our house. We are fortunate because Mikey Pittman would like to mow our lawn to keep shape for football and make some summer money.  The Pittman kids along with their cousins came down to help celebrate the 4th of July with a game of Bocce Ball on the lawn.  It was a beautiful evening.

Sun, Sun, Sun!

The weather this 4th of July weekend has been spectacular. SUN, music, activity and lots and lots of work!  The outside furniture is done and we are enjoying the magnificent deck!  It is soooo big that we have multiple seating and lounging areas.  On Saturday night the Hard Road to Hoe winery had a band playing and we were able to enjoy their music and wine while we dined outside.  Hal and Jean went to work painting their "suite" and hanging drapes.  Mikey Pittman joined in to help Amelia cut up boxes.  Soon all the Pittman's and their cousins joined Amelia and Joseph on the back lawn for a game of Bocce ball game and then up to the garage for Ping Pong.  It was a good day.

Whew, what a weekend

Dining Room done!  We all got to enjoy the strawberries that Jean picked for us -- all 5 pints of them! Bob and Gina Barbee came over to help us figure out how we were going to put that dang staircase back in and Otis had so much fun running around the 4 acres that he couldn't keep his eyes open.  We are heading back home and then back on Friday with another U-Haul.

It is all about the deck!

We love this deck.  There is nothing about this deck that we don't love (except maybe having to stain it this fall.)  It is a 1000 square foot deck and there is a view from every part of it.  The bad thing is it needs a lot of furniture and all of that furniture needs to be put together. We got most of it completed and we were able to have our first dinner outside and enjoyed the glorious view.  Today we are back to putting together the dining room chairs, a dresser and a few more outdoor pieces.  Hal finally opened a well chilled beer and called it a day.
We will head home for the week.  We need one more U-Haul load next weekend and it may just start looking like a furnished house again.

GOOD MORNING!

We arrived!  I can't believe (or maybe I can) that I couldn't find my camera during the big move yesterday.  Pauline Duran and I arrived a day early set up the kitchen.  When we arrived there were three vans and a truck parked in the driveway and various people filling up what they could. Our new home was being looted -- at least that is what it felt like. We weren't exactly sure what was going on, but they all knew the previous owners and said that they were told they could come and take what ever they liked. We weren't sure who was going to show up next but they stripped the property down, including the hoses. They left us the garbage and a very dirty house.   Pauline and I went to work and the next morning Tom, Amelia, Jean, Hal and Otis came barrelling in.  What a picture to see Otis sitting in the front of the U-Haul!  But no, no camera yet...Mary and Brett Pittman (Lorraine's sister) came down to great us and they stayed to help un-load the truck.  It was a family affair with Mikey Pittman taking on mowing the lawn for us also. 

Yeah!  I found my camera this morning and what a beautiful day!  The pictures are taken from the deck, and just check out those kitchen cabinets!

MOVING DAY!

The day has finally come and we are moving all the "stuff" we have gathered on Craigslist for the last month in a 26 foot U-Haul.  I can't wait to post a picture of that!  4 beds, headboards, sheets, towels, kitchen stuff, kitchen stuff and more kitchen stuff -- I have to have a nice kitchen!  Pauline Duran and I are going first to unpack the kitchen and Tom will bring the U-Haul tomorrow.