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electric is 2 feet deep

No more wires!

at purchase

today 

Well it took 4 months,  and $800 but I finally got rid of the awful electric wires that attached to the peak of the roof from the electric pole.  Man was that an eyesore.   You can't tell now that it's gone, but that shanty town vibe has lifted.
I don't know why removing those overhead wires make me so happy, but it does.   Now we have 2 feet deep electric cable.   We can FINALLY paint the top of the house and add the shutters on the new top window!

It is definitely fall now.  Peak temps mid 70's.  Cool into low 50's.  Very different from last home where it was always 80 degrees except for two very short months of a little bit cold.  I wonder what winter will be like.
I talked with an architect yesterday. We need to start a plan for a garage build. She explained we can do a two bay and then another two bay later to staged funding.  SWEET!!

I liked her. She has cats, is thin, my age, and knows about the not so big house. Even heard the author speak at a conference.

New window, start of the pantry!

Yeah! After waiting 5 weeks our new window w tempered glass is installed. It took them under 1 hr to replace it and trim it out.  Tomorrow I can prime it, after the caulk dries!
And the final city inspector is scheduled tomorrow as well!
Then the upstairs is DONE!
Except of course for the new stairway, but that's a 2015 project!

finished the back spalsh! 

cut out for eventual walk-in pantry, it WAS the closet in the bedroom. 

new window with required tempered glass.  J reused the old closet rod and made it into the stair hand rail. 

Cold today!

Wow.  52 degrees.  Should warm up again tho.  
Last night I painted the bathroom.  Home Depot had a quart of good paint w primer.  Only $2.  Already tinted a peach color.   Great deal on returned paint.  Also got a gallon of white returned for $17.  Plan on painting living room just to clean it up a bit.


So I painted till about 1 am. (The bathroom)
Can't say it's the best color, but it looks much cleaner.  Did the ceiling too.  It was gross before.
Ordered a coordinating shower curtain too.  That will help a lot.

Will need to change the window covering. But that's just a quick trip to fabric store.  And w an iron.  I'll be done in 20 minutes.

Also last nite I did the setting of the marble on the rest of the backsplash.   There is this problem area where the makeshift plaster is not sticking to drywall.  So a few of my stones are not sticking.  I plan to cut those out and add a bit of calk to make them stick before I grout.


Thursday the gutters were replaced.  I still need to buy two rain barrels.  These guys also said the roof will need replacing in about 5 yrs.  plan on $7000 for that.

Monday (tomorrow) getting window installed.  Then hopefully, Tuesday,  I can get final inspection and close out all city permits.

We r getting more pseudo closets from The Container store this week for all our clothes.  Then maybe we can get rid of more boxes.