Jan 18 2008
It’s January and cold. Even in Alabama it gets cold. We are expecting 3-6 inches of snow tomorrow and I promise to take pictures! This only happens about every 20 years or so. That is just fine with me! I like to look at it about once every 20 years or so. To those of [...]
Jan 17 2008
I think this is a first for me! Two blog posts in the same evening! What’s up with Fay? Well, I found a blog of someone who is in the process of moving out of the city to the country. I hope my sweet friends will go over to her blog and visit while she [...]
Jan 17 2008
Well, Julia mentioned it and I knew I would eventually write about it so why not now? When we lived in Montgomery we had dust. Since we moved to the country we have DUST! The dust is incredible. The road on the north side of our property is a dirt road. That is the main [...]
Jan 15 2008
After a few more weeks of construction our lovely home was completed and we were anxious to move in. Our Montgomery house was rented and the people who had rented it were in a hurry to move and get settled. We are the type of people who do things ourselves and moving is one of [...]
Jan 10 2008
We are well underway with our lovely home at this point when my husband got a call from our builder saying that the tile we had picked for the kitchen was discontinued and we needed to go back to the flooring store to pick something else. We just couldn’t believe it! We called the decorator [...]
Jan 07 2008
Well, at this point we are going to the bath store to look at bathroom sinks and counter tops. This is an area of contention. I don’t like the bathroom counters or sinks. When I do the bathrooms over they will be replaced.
In the plans for the bathroom the vanity area was [...]
Jan 04 2008
I’d never given much thought to lighting before we set out for the lighting store. I knew that the house was going to have a lot of recessed lighting because the electrician was already hard at work. All of the houses I’d lived in up to this point had been built by someone [...]
Jan 03 2008
Ok! The flooring store is behind us and the cabinetry lies ahead. Keeping in mind that my husband is in a cast, we set off to the cabinetry store on a sunny day, but there are clouds in the sky. Just about the time we arrive at the cabinetry store the bottom [...]
Jan 01 2008
Even though I’ve been writing about putting brick on the house, I want to back up and tell you that when you buy your plans, buy as many as you can afford at the beginning. The builders you interview will want a copy and everywhere you go after that, they will want a copy [...]
