It's Getting Hot Down Here

The days are getting hotter and hotter......Blah!!!! Anyway, we make settlement on our Mobile home on Saturday and then we will start cleaning and assessing the situation down there. Here's a couple more pictures of the inside of our house.   The picture below on right is our kitchen area.  We plan on replacing the front windows with a large bay window with a window seat, plus for now paint the dark cabinets white and take down the wallpaper.

The other picture of the kitchen is looking into the living room (notice how dark the paneling is).  That will all get painted a light color now and maybe down the road we will drywall (not sure yet).  There's a bar where we can put stools on the other side of the kitchen counter.  Check that wallpaper! :)

The picture above is our 30 foot long porch. It's been renovated with new T11 paneling and new berber carpeting, so all we have to do out there is clean the windows.

Monday I am bringing Kate and boys here for a couple of weeks.  We will visit the beaches, try to go Kayaking, take the Ferry over to Cape May, have our Annual Summer Yard Sale and just bum around.  It will be fun....can't wait!

It's Ours

Well, the owners of the mobile home accepted our offer and we gave a down payment, so I guess it's ours!

It needs work, but we have two years to get it ready.  We hope to make settlement next weekend, at which time we will start getting rid of the furniture we don't want.  Then we will clean and clean and clean and then paint the dark paneling to a lighter color.  It'll be fun turning this place into Our Home :)

My Garden

Well, we planted four tomato plants and two pepper plants and some herbs.  Here is the garden a couple of weeks ago.

Here it is today - can you see the small grape tomatoes?

Also, my potted plants are doing good too.  Here's a few.


Still working on my compost, but it isn't quite ready this year to use.  Maybe by the Fall.

Waiting, Waiting

Well, lately I've been waiting around to hear if Leon and I will be purchasing this home down in NJ, which will end up being our permanent home once we retire.  We've put in three bids so far and I'm supposed to hear later today whether or not the owners will accept it.  We looked at other places, but felt this was best suited to us.  Once, the deal goes through, then I'll post pictures, but I don't want to jinx it.

I'm working out in my garage every day, going through boxes, setting up tables, etc. but it's very hot out there and there's so much to do...so I find myself taking alot of breaks.  I am making a dent though.  My garage sale is now rescheduled for July 2nd and 3rd.  Kate and the boys will be here to help me.

Starting to list on Ebay again....slowly though, but I have a ton of Summer stuff to list. (Ebay ID - helodolly).

Busy, busy, busy

My life is non-stop most of the time.  Today I was running around buying birthday gifts for this weekend, looking for decorations for the two boys cakes (It's Mikey's birthday today and J.D.'s on the 15th).  Now I'm ready to make the icing for the cakes and decorate them.  Tonight we will drive to NJ.  Birthday parties tomorrow, then Mattie's Dance Recital tomorrow afternoon.  Sunday we will be driving down to O.C., NJ to see another mobile home for sale....then take the Cape May/Lewes Ferry home.  Oops....I have to water all my pots outside before I go.  Talk later.  I'll put pictures of the cakes when they are done.....not as fancy as I usually do.

Taking One Day at a Time

The days have been beautiful.....I love Springtime! I've been working in my gardens in the front and back of my house and I enjoy it so much - it brings me peace and contentment.

I traded my Mazda 5 in for a Ford Taurus X, which I like much better. The Mazda was nice, but just a little too sporty and compact for me. The seats were not comfortable for long trips. Got a good deal on a 2008 Ford Taurux X (white with a wide gray stripe at bottom and thin one up further). It's wider so I have much more room and it also holds 7 people.  It's more of an "old people's car" than the Mazda :)

I'm still trying to figure out a date for my Garage Sale.  I'm so overwhelmed by the stuff in my garage that I don't know where to start.  I think I'll probably have it when Kate and boys are down in July.  Got to get the garage clean so I can pull my car in.