This Old Punk House

Sunrise over the Space Needle (and grain elevator) at Myrtle Edwards Park.

Train cars, golf course fence, cool clouds and moon.

I put together this bike station over the last couple of weeks. The shelves hold all our extras (lights, patch kits, tubes, etc.) and the hooks are for my gear because I had it spread out all over the place. hopefully this will make things go more smoothly in the mornings.

It’s been one decade in the little punk house that could, and we’ve seen a lot of changes. Interior stairs to the basement, a new shed and greenhouse, remodel of our bedroom and beautiful custom closet, and two new rooms that completely changed the look of our house. No wonder we’re tired all the time! Some of the plans for the upcoming decade include landscaping the yard, built-in bookshelves in the living room, closet build-out in the office, a new workshop in the basement and hopefully a kitchen/dining room remodel. If we’re lucky we’ll be able to squeeze a hot tub in along the way as well. And a second bathroom wouldn’t be bad. Oh well, a girl can dream.

Right now we’re still dealing with the aftermath of our recent burglary (which I assume our audience knows about since I suspect it’s really only my parents and April who read this anyway), but we probably wouldn’t have got to the landscaping until it warms up a bit regardless of our recent trials.

We’re looking forward to putting the end of last year behind us and moving on to new adventure!

I’ll try to get a better photo later.

Our trip to Victoria over Labor Day weekend: Victoria 2009

The concrete work is complete in our front and back yard. The front walkway from the house:

The back path, which goes from the basement door to the greenhouse door, the bottom of the deck stairs, and to the parking area:

The parking area and stairs to the new back path:

No more muddy shoes! Yay!

On Monday they’ll be back to pour the sidewalk and clean up. Here is the first look at the new walkways and parking area.

Parking area, from the alley:

Path from basement to shed and parking area:

Front, from the entry:

Front, from the porch:

The work on the front walk is coming along. The concrete should be poured next week, depending on the weather.

Just got an iPhone! This is a test post using the wordpress app.

Using a photo of Spiff sleeping.