Update on the malposition: Ok here is how it looks after i took a piece of the shell off and made a small slit and peeled back a little of the inner membrane. It bled very very little after I did this but stopped bleeding within maybe 2-3 seconds. How does it look?
Update on the malposition: Ok here is how it looks after i took a piece of the shell off and made a small slit and peeled back a little of the inner membrane. It bled very very little after I did this but stopped bleeding within maybe 2-3 seconds. How does it look?
We bought our house in 1995. I was five months pregnant and we went out to eat. We had just finished remodeling our 50s ranch house, but we had a two bedroom house and a second child, a girl, on the way with a five year old boy in the other bedroom. I picked up the real estate magazine to browse, and found this photo:
We bought it the next day. Everything just fell into place, I truly believe it was meant to be. It was terribly abused and neglected, but we learned the skills to make it right over the next 7 years.
Our home of 20 years:
I love our home. It has been a great place to raise our family, we have three good dogs buried under the maple tree, and we have invested a great deal of sweat, blood and money into a sensitive renovation. We didn't restore it as we do like running water and electricity, but we didn't shortcut and skimp on what we worked on. All the damaged old siding was replaced with top quality western red cedar. I designed and built a garage that was in sync with the size and scale of the house. The cabinets were built from a tree harvested on the former farmland. We never dreamt we'd be here 20 years, nor stay until the house is so close to 200 years...now only 6 1/2 years away. We've been custodians, and helped to preserve the house so that it will outlast the surrounding subdivision.
The prospect:
It's only 115 years old so we won't see it reach 200. But it has 15 acres, a branch of the Flint River, rolling terrain, paved road, trees, and a wraparound porch. Room for more birds, though I will only keep enough layers for our own uses. Room for a horse. Room for my cars, my tools, and my accumulated "stuff". Dark skies to use our telescope. Outdated decor, but that's easy to fix. And buying would be financially moving downmarket, allowing DH to retire and take care of things, or to find a job he can do remotely even if it pays less, as we won't have a house payment any more. It lacks originality other than staircase and a built in cupboard and some trim. It's clad in vinyl siding (DH's first comments: it has vinyl windows and siding. I wonder if the wood siding looks good behind the vinyl?). It's only a few miles from my new beef supplier and our long time Christmas tree farm. It's only a mile and a half from a major freeway which will reduce my travel time considerably when I need to travel for work. It's 45 minutes closer to our place up north. And it's between two nice sized towns that offer all the services we could want, plus a city within 25 miles to cover anything else. It makes all the sense in the world. I hope it is what it looks to be...
The last one usually is!
I know I just married into the fam recently, and I am pretty exhausted and as a result, more emotional than usual, but I feel the love.
I'm constantly running out of ovations and it's probably >90% this thread's fault.
Update on the malposition: Ok here is how it looks after i took a piece of the shell off and made a small slit and peeled back a little of the inner membrane. It bled very very little after I did this but stopped bleeding within maybe 2-3 seconds. How does it look?
