Today is a good day! For those of you following the rental saga, here is the latest (and hopefully the final) update. After months of certified letters, emails, phone calls and face to face meetings that accomplish nothing we’ve finally decided to ask the landlords to release us from the lease come May 1st. We […]
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Um, did someone die in this house? Man it smells! (Evansville rental home search continues…)
I am going to be honest, this home hunt thing has really made me a downer lately. I know how boring and blah the posts have been and I am trying to not go on and on about the same crap, it is just hard to swiftly change perspective when nothing is actually looking up […]
Finding rental houses (not apartments) online…
I have never understood why finding rental homes online is so much more difficult than finding apartments. When we moved out to Flagstaff, AZ we rented several apartments over the course of 2 years. Apartment complexes just don’t make things easy for multiple pet owners and families with kids seldom want to live in an […]
3 months to go till we move, again!
Last week was the first week of being forced to showed our current rental home. The owners decided to put it back on the market 3 months into our 6 month lease. So, I was home last Friday when this Native American couple came with their agent to tour the home. The showing was fairly […]
Getting a tan and blogging…
Today is such a nice day! Yesterday we got rain so the air is all fresh and clean today plus the sun is shining and it is a warm 63 degrees out. As son as I got home from teaching I got my bathing suit top on, grabbed my towel and headed out to get […]
Birthday photos shared!
I promised to post some photos from my birthday and I try to live up to my promises! Since I got plants galore you will be subjected to a slew of bulb information and photos but don’t run away yet! We also have some adorable baby photos and some yummy fondue photos to share. First, […]
Woho… The crocus are in bloom!
That means gardening fun is about to begin for us! The crocus blooms are a beautiful yellow and are quite cheerful. They are kind of short, like they were planted too deep but it still so great to see them even if they are short. Do you have any early spring bulbs that are blooming […]
I have spring fever! Is winter over yet?
Well, we are moved in to our new place and it’s a bit like Christmas here every day! We are discovering all kinds of “surprises” each day as the snow melts. Some of the “surprises” are pleasant because they are signs that spring is around the corner, others a just odd. Yesterday we determined a […]
A rant about installation appointments
Well we are still waiting to have our phone/ DSL connected today. We had an appointment for a tech to come out between 12pm & 5pm today, it’s 4pm as I write this and nobody is here. The whole deal with service calls and connecting utilities is kind of silly. They need access to your […]
My body hates me- moving is rough!
Well, I am just now sitting down with my laptop for basically the first time in 2 days. We are moved in and it has been exhausting! Thanks to my family we got the majority of our junk into the new home by Sunday night. We stayed in the new, warmer, much bigger home Sunday […]
Fun with the family.. Video with adult language!
We made my yummy salt roasted chicken for dinner and then made some smores for dessert. Were having some fun before we start the moving process from the one rental to another… Here is a snapshot of our evening, good times! [youtube I90WJeO9RDg Fun with family- video]
Our oven works?? Now what do I do?
It’s been a long and annoying 2 weeks since our stove caught fire and today I am here to report that it appears we can actually use the oven on our new for us/ used stove. Oh, joy. Guess that means I can stop eating large dishes of jello like it’s going out of style […]
Moving tips?
A few days of nothing have been nice but now I need to get my butt in gear and start getting ready to move. We get the keys to our new place on 2/25 and need to be out of this place my 2/29.. It’s nice to have a few days to make the transition […]
Yay the insainty has passed!
Mmmm buttery toast! I am finally sitting down to relax, seems like it’s been the first time in two weeks! I feel like a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I am so thankful to be so fortunate. I knocked out 45 custom purses and they are on the way to their […]
Salmon on the stove top? :(
Howdy!! Do you know of a creative way to prepare salmon without the microwave or oven? I still only have a working stove top … the oven still doesn’t work and no resolution has been offered yet. We have to be out of here on 24 days anyway so WTF?? It would be nice to […]
Our stove was on fire!
Yep, you read it right… Our stove caught fire tonight! I baked some chicken breasts in the oven and then turned the stove off. N and I were eating dinner and this repulsive smell was wafting through the house. I mentioned it to N several times over dinner. Eventually the smell got stronger and then […]
The economy and house prices….
Well, today the owners of the place we are renting made us another offer.. You see when we first agreed to rent this place we were in the middle of contract negotiations and we were interested in buying a home but were not finding anything at the right price. We agreed to rent on a […]
Our new home (a photo blog)
We moved into our new place just a little over a week ago and we are finally settling in! Our new place offers more privacy, flexibility and a section of dirt to plant in. We are enjoying our new place allot despite the annoying move. Awhile back I posted a blog about how pets seem […]