Next up: Remodeling!!!!!!

We haven't signed the final papers so writing this is pushing my luck but no one is shoving their way to the front to buy this has so Seth and I become homestead owners. We walked through the house a month ago with Grandma, Gramps, Jane and Stephan it was fun to hear everyone's story, it seems everyone in the family has lived in the house and boy do my Grandparents have stories to tell. Grandma hasn't said much but there is a picture of her with a dead bear and a gun and the kids in the front yard, I bet this house could tell some stories. I imagine the house would be a little under the weather if it could talk, there is soooo much work to be done but Seth is excited and I have caught his enthusiasm so here we go. The yard has beautiful lilac and rose bushes that I am itching to cut back and a huge yard that is filling with little cotton wood starts that need to be clipped, perfect job for yours truely.

Maybe from now on this blog will be a do-over, a remodel story of one old house. The roof will be redone first, than skylight out and lots of sheet rocking, wiring, some plumbing, new floors, new kitchen, 2 new bathrooms and lots of paint. There are three shacks with 5 cars outside all up to my Dad to move and than the garage with what is now 4 apartments, to become 1 apartment and 2 garages. Writing all that feel cathartic and constricts my heart into my throat all at once. We measuring the POS today and than headed to Home Depot to do some cost projections, Seth is drawing the house on CAD as I write. The most exciting part to me right now is that we have a friend who has a custom cabinet maker that is good priced so the kitchen will look great, also costed out hard wood floors for the rest of the house that doesn't already have them and it should work? The living room was put in by Uncle Bob or Uncle Brig depending on who you ask. A potential contractor asked us who put this roof on, Grandpa told him "The best goddam roofer in the area." That fool didn't get the job, Seth did, as well as deed.

So here are a few pictures to start us off, it is mind boggling that we will pull this off...............