Friday, May 16, 2008

Fun Friday Quiz




Since the second floor walls have been opened, exposing 100 year old, wet plaster, an interesting smell has trickled into the building. This portion of our blog allows you dear reader to participate in the life of our fateful four by taking a quiz and posting your guess. A quiz of this nature will be posted every Friday. So, on to the question:

The smell that has trickled-into/enveloped the second floor since cracking the 6 - 9 coats of lead-based paint thus exposing and cracking the 100 year old, wet plaster most resembles the smell of:
A) 3 recently bathed puppies
B) a Maasai mud hut constructed of cow dung
c) a poopy diaper

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Our Story's Been Told Before

The Plumber


A plumber came this morning to help diagnose a leak coming from the second floor bathroom. Yup, it's leaking. Karen and Treavor were there to meet him and discuss the goings on of home repair in his native language - English. The plumber confirmed what our fateful four suspected... the pipes need to be replaced in the bathroom.

A slight reconfiguring of the layout will take place to maximize space. Demolition to occur soon! 

Oh, and Daisy found a dead rat in the basement. 

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Sick Puppy



The roofers arrived at 7am Monday morning. And of course, by Tuesday, with a chance of showers, they were no where to be found. Michael and Treavor called in Andy the Contractor to patch some holes and were told that there is no point in patching something that will need to be torn down in a couple of years - the only solution... replace everything... including windows. 

Karen tried to do laundry on sunday and found out that the washer doesn't wash. The washer fills then... sits. And this particular load sat with puppy vomit from a sick Daisy. Daisy is better now and so here you will find her up to her usual antics.