Some fun....and lots of hard work!

Hi everyone....we are doing great! Working hard and really loving living in Owensville! Today...Sunday...heard church bells chime several times. Nice! One plus....I seem to be able to eat anything and not gain weight....so much more active. We can't get very many TV stations....so hardly ever watch TV....and instead work! Like the pioneers but with electricity, a dishwasher and a garbage disposal!

Have had good moments and very bad ones too. Lots of things wrong....Murphy is with us. On Friday our friends came to help us....and at the time the guys ( our friends and Mike) arrived with our big king sized bed...the other guys arrived with our new stove and fridge....well they brought the wrong stove! So our stove will come tomorrow. But the fridge is gorgeous! Pic will follow (maybe tomorrow). They had to practically take it apart....and the house apart to get it in here!! But it is in! Same with the bed. The guys had to take it apart to get it upstairs....but it is there...and we are sleeping (when we are able to sleep) on it...and it is great!

After all that stress......after the day was over....we all just relaxed with wine and beer and Chinese food. They all can see what this house will be like when we are done with it. It just needs little things mostly....but lots of them! But to relax with our longtime friends like we did that night was one of the reasons why we moved back here! Thanks to you all Ron, Jan, Barb and Charlie!

The next day...Saturday...my wonderful brother and his sweet Pam came up from Springfield to see us...and the house. They helped us unload the trailer so that we can settle in here for the next days... And for the months ahead when we go back and forth. We had a nice time with them. I am too tired to do pics tonight...but one of these days will get them on..including one of Pam and Stevie. They too are why we moved back here...to see them more often...grill and chill...and have some holidays together! Love you guys!!

Today I painted the kitchen...the first coat .....to change from a deep red (which no one who had seen it liked) to a yellow...so that I can continue my lemon theme! Tomorrow I will complete that (2nd coat) and then do the first coat on the living room. The rest of the house just needs touch ups for now....and Walmart has done an awesome job or matching the paints.....and they are good thick paints they have too....Kilz paints. I wanted, and intended, to do a "before" of the kitchen in red and then an after...but forgot. So will have to do with an "after". It will look great...even better when I get all of my lemon stuff down here!

Mike got some of the curtain rods up tonight until his drill died and needed to be charged. So that will happen tomorrow. He worked in the yard today and got it cleaned up pretty well....some yet to do. We have nice flower beds and blooming trees and it really is a nice yard. The owner before the last one did some nice things and took care of this place. The guy we bought it from did nothing much...and whatever he did do...did half ass. And then there were the renters....who were slobs! Never cleaned as far as I can tell! But anyway...that is all gone now except for an occasional cobweb I find when I am painting.

The people we have met here have been soooo friendly...we love being able to walk to the bank, the post office, the library, the deli and to shops and restaurants...and parks and, if Mike wanted to, the golf course!

Today we had a cold front pull in. The neighbors covered their plants. It may snow flurry tomorrow. Has been nice...but this is early April and things change. We leave for Michigan on Friday...and will keep working until then. Will get some pics up when I have time. Love to all......Judy