11th December 2009

 
I get the keys for it in 8-9 days. I am not sure when they started the 10 day countdown. I will find out more today, sign papers etc. I let you guys know about 30 minutes after I found out.

It is a turn of the century historic house which is 4 bedrooms/2 baths and an office. One of the bathrooms has a clawfoot tub. At my previous farm in Oregon, I had one of those and it was pretty sweet. Thankfully this one is not Pepto Bismol pink like the last one *L*

It has a large newer woodstove and some lead glass windows and doors. The only reason I could afford this is someone started reno's on it and evidently did not make payments, so it was a repo. I was not the high bidder, but I could close the fastest, so the bank took my offer. This was the 4th house I had actually offered on. I am glad the other ones did not go through. I would have put up with the others, but this one fits the bill and will feel like home. I have been basically living out of a backpack since July. I am not kidding. It will be nice to get the baby's room done up.

I plan to move in sometime in January, but first I have to rip out carpets. Either someone butchered chickens in the master bedroom or tore apart a big block Chev? I probably DO NOT want to know!!) Remove the lino in the kitchen and put down something else. Oh yes, you will be seeing the before, during and after on the blogs I am sure.

The resident skunk is being removed from under the house, which rather smelled up the kitchen and laundry rooms. No, I am not kidding.

It has a floor to ceiling pantry and a fully set up room which was an office for someone, which will work wonderfully as an office for DTTR and the press!! The whole house has high ceilings.

There are apple and cherry trees, a rosemary bush and I don't know what all else yet besides Vinca Major. And a huge covered front porch.

Most of the rooms need painting, except the livingroom which is a nice cheery yellow. The shower stall in the one bathroom needs to be replaced and the only thing which annoys me at this point is the bathroom ceiling fan in there. All the windows in the livingroom have been replaced with double hung insulated windows. Eventually over time, I will replace the others.

There is a insulated dog mansion for "Cyrus" if he has to stay outside for some reason. It is big enough to also be a room and I can easily stand in it. There are 2 chain link runs from it.

The garden is fenced in and has some raised beds. There is also a woodshed to hold a whole winter's supply. The garage needs to be torn down and redone (it is roofless and I did not go into the structure as I had a concern for my life), but there is a nice breezeway from the garage to the kitchen door.

The roof is a total re-do. It has 3 layers of shingles. But in doing it ourselves (my mom's significant other is a contractor and my friend said he would come down to help -- as they said I could not go on the roof -- but I bet I will anyway *wink*) and with the equipment we have to use, including safety harnesses.. it should go pretty well. (If I just did not jinx us). There are
many salvage building material places, so I am hoping to get wood flooring of some kind and put it in the livingroom and kitchen/pantry areas. Maybe in the office as well, but I cannot remember what kind of flooring was in there.

The town is a lovely and quaint old farming community and looks to be my kind of people. It has many parks and a awesome looking library, although I have not been inside it yet. There is a local farmers market and I don't know what all else, but it will be fun to explore it all with SweetPea.