In case you missed my last post, I bought a house. And some land. Not that much, but enough to keep a city girl pretty busy. It's three and a quarter acres. And a three bedroom house from the 70s. And when I say that it's from the 70s, WOW, it is really from the 70s. See for yourself:
Yup, this really is a stone wall in my bathroom.
And the cutesy country kitchen.
When I arrived at the house on Friday afternoon, I have to admit that I was a bit overwhelmed. The house smelled funny, was grimy, and full of spiderwebs. I got mouse poop in my hair at some point while mopping bird poop off the floors. It was not a pretty sight. For a while there, I was cursing myself for jumping into this thing for which I was obviously not prepared. Also, it was really, really HOT while I was trying to do all this poop-mopping, so you know, that didn't really help things.
You can't see them in the picture, but spiderwebs and animal poops abound.
But then I got some sleep and some friends arrived the next day, and things got better. We got the kitchen into a not-so-disgusting state, and even got the faucet working. We went to the river to while away the hot days. And by the end of the weekend, the place was a bit more livable, and I felt like maybe I could do this thing after all.
Oh, and even though the house is grody and the land is neglected, there is still quite a lot of cuteness and potential. Once again, see for yourself:
A couple of grape vines.
The cutest little pears you've ever seen, right?
Lots of bees & hummingbirds visiting these flowering vines.
So now that there's a garbage can and a working faucet, I need to get to work on the land. Next up: mowing, tilling & irrigation, oh my!
