Sunday, May 27, 2007




if you click on a picture to enlarge you can see the texture/detail of the wood.









Monday, May 14, 2007

HELLLLLLP

Trouble on the home front.
The floors are installed. We are in the middle of the process which should be completed by Thursday. We have to decide the stain on the oak floors. They are red oak and I'm liking a natural finish which shows off the contrast in the shades of the wood and also keeps the house light and cheerful. Rickey is leaning heavily to a stain color called Early American.
I just want to be satisfied and not regret the decision. I want it to look classy and help the house to sell when we sell it.
I feel doubt with either choice....lol
Opinions?

Friday, May 11, 2007



We are totally consumed with household projects this week. Finally getting hardwood floors installed starting tomorrow. We had to move all of our furniture and stuff on the walls out of the rooms that are getting done. Also, this week we had the fescue (junk grass, basically) completely removed and then hydroseeded (sprayed new grass seed) the sides and back yard with bermuda grass to match the much nicer sod grass that is in the front. When builders construct new subdivisions they cut corners in every way they can get away with and the end result is two strikingly different shades of grass that grow at extremely different rates. The way the house sits- from one angle the yard looks great- but from every other it looks strange.
Anyway I'm tirrrrred tonight. Have a great weekend. I'll post how it all turns out soon.

Monday, May 07, 2007

9021NOOOOOO























WTF happened to Dylan Mckay Luke Perry?
Nooooooo!

Friday, May 04, 2007

I wanted to show off the hanging baskets I made earlier this week. :) I hope they live...I had to stuff some of them in.

you really have to click on pictures to enlarge to see how pretty. :)




I don't know what the name of this is, but I got it at Whole Foods last summer and it had gorgeous purple flowers. I didn't even know it would come back again--which I've finally learned that those types of flowers that come back every year are called perennials. I always get annuals and perennials mixed up-- I keep thinking that it would be annuals to come back "annually".

Tuesday, May 01, 2007



My endeavor into establishing a business investing in Real Estate is still developing. The foreclosure market is supposed to increase tremendously over the next year, but in the meantime the ones that I have researched in my area are not what I want for one reason or another i.e., they are either too rundown, too pricey, I wouldn't be able to make a justifiable profit if I sold it at normal market value, or as a rental couldn't make the necessary minimum profit to cover a mortgage and additional expenses. I recently expanded my search to include houses for sale that weren't foreclosed on and I discovered that you can find great deals there too, and definitely less repairs.
I have looked at everything from old houses to new ones, to duplexes and quadraplexes and recently started focusing on these two investment properties:


I was really excited, because initially they seemed reasonably priced for the city they are in, but when we examined the mortgage payment and learned of the standard rent generated from them, the numbers didn't line up. I need to make a minimum of a couple hundred over the mortgage payment to make it feasible. I also discovered that the area isn't the best and that you would tend to change tenants alot. That isn't at all what I'm searching for. First, I'm not going to buy anything I wouldn't be willing to live in myself, and so I have to like it on some level. It's not that I plan on ever living in an investment property, but you never know, and I want this to be something positive for whoever rents it, and something I can feel good about and proud of taking care of.

This would be pretty cool in my ideal world....
See...you can even see me over there on the porch :)