Mar
9
2009
It’s taken way longer than it should have, but I’ve finally finished painting the “master” bedroom. I put this in quotes because it’s as small as the other bedroom, it just has a french door to the back deck.
When we bought the house, the color was a very dark blue. When you’d turn on the light, it felt like the light was being swallowed up.

Dark room
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Mar
9
2009
I spent part of this weekend pruning. I ended up filling the entire green waste can and didn’t get close to finishing. I took a picture of the bushes in the front. It cracks me up. At least half our house looks lived in!

Half-pruned
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Feb
23
2009

Patching - Early stages
In the living room, we had a few places that needed patching. Millou (our agent) recommended Peter as the master texture/patching guy. He came by on Thursday, and I showed him what needed to be done.
On Friday I left him in the house and when I came back, I found a lot more patching than I realized was required. (Our sheet rock is starting to buckle and seperate, and these places needed to be scraped and patched.)
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