Mitzie is even tired of it...

November 19th, 2003
Snow Day!

Our first snowfall in the new house. Only took two years to happen.
Question: What does a Mitzie Dogg do on a snow day?

She watches me. What else?

Or she sleeps.

The new back yard. Scroll down for a minute and look at how it was before.
Go ahead. We'll wait. 144 paver stones and 5000 pounds of rock later,
it's looking pretty good!
Just in time for our Summer "We Married You" Party!
(Mitzie helped a lot!)

April, 2003
Diane gets yet another cast.
Bummer.

I have done this so many times I could do it in my sleep.
Perhaps that's the problem.
Either that, or the bathroom is haunted.

February, 2003
Diane Decorates for the Spring Holidays.

Diane had her foot surgery on January 13th, 2003 
and is recovering very nicely. Special thanks to everyone 
who sent flowers, cards and nice thoughts.
Nice looking cast, huh?

(Those are shamrocks.
Not bad, really,  considering it's made out of fiberglass.)

((Mitzie says "Hi"!))

October 8th, 2002
Our new addition!

This is Mitzie. We adopted each other.
We are sure she will have her own page soon.

Visit Mitzie's Page Here!

September 15th, 2002
Another Birthday.

Rob gets to wear a fish on his head.
What more can I say?
Nothing to do with the house,
other than I am getting older
and don't move as fast as I used to.

July 18th, 2002
The Great Break

This is an X-Ray of Diane's right foot.
Give your self 10 points if you can find the fracture.
Diane spent the summer in a cast, and now the doctors say she
might need surgery for it to grow back together right.
This has a lot to do with the house. Being as how she needs to stay
off of it as much as she can, Diane couldn't work in the yard as
much as she wanted.
More on this story as it develops.

April 2002
Where the City of Vancouver
Drops the ball...
(and the bark dust.)

ooo

Refresh you memory about the front of our house.
Notice anything different?
That's right! The juniper is gone! Dale and Rob pulled them out with
a chain on a large truck.
Then the City of Vancouver landscaped for us.
Not willingly of course. In fact, it was all a big misunderstanding.
Ask Rob for the details.

(But let me tell you, "free" is a great price for a crew of eight
to come and rake, bark dust and lawn seed your front yard.)

January 17th, 2002
at McGrath's Fish House

Guess who had a birthday?
Better yet, guess who got to wear the famous
Fish-On-The-Head hat?
This has nothing to do with the house, but I thought
this was a nice picture.

Visit Diane's Personal Page here!

October 22nd, 2001
The Great Kitchen Sink Disaster

Innocent looking picture, huh?
So much for things going smoothly.
Diane tells the story much better than Rob does.
Lets just say the floor got mopped REAL good that night.
And I bet the neighbors are still talking about Rob being outside
at the water meter wearing only...

October 21st, 2001
Let There Be Light...

The original hall light. I think we kept it.
That's not Rob taking it down. That's how it was when we moved in.
Don't even ask how the wiring was...
Diane and Rob have become, much to our suprise, quite the handy persons.
Rob's brother Dale helped install a new hot water tank in our first weeks in.
Several light switches and outlets needed replacing, and it was a bit of work
getting the washer and dryer installed. But things seemed to be going smoothly.
Rob replaced the baseboard heaters without shocking himself too badly this time.
 

The original bathroom light. We tossed this one.
Notice the mirror image effect. (I planned that.)

October 16th, 2001
Deck Removal

Where Rob removes his nemesis.
We don't know how many times we hit our heads on the roof walking out to the back yard.
Who owned this house? People under 4' 9"?

The back deck didn't want to move without help, so...

...here's Rob helping it out.
Notice the For Sale sign. We kept that.

September 4th, 2001
The Saga Begins...

Here it is! The home of our dreams!
We didn't get any pictures of the inside. Too bad! Under this quiet exterior was a monster!
Leaky sinks, no hot water, no heat, yard filled with weeds and smoke damage.
 In other words, perfect for us!
You might remember that September of 2001 was an eventfull month for America.
It was for us as well. Our beloved dog Snookie passed away just a few days before this picture.
Diane's Grandfather passes away a few days later.
She got home from the funeral on September 8th.
Rob had his largest wedding to date on his birthday, the first weekend
after September 11th.
We still don't know how we  managed to buy it.
We think the file is still sitting on someones desk.

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