Chromatastrophy

Here is how our old house looked when we sold it:



Here is how it looks today:



Even our mail carrier made a point of mentioning how, er.... "different" it looks. Love that lawn color, too.

Christmas Dreams

 

New Carpet (Old House)

Today we had new carpet installed at our old house.... only a year after moving out. The entire process was very quick: we picked the carpet on Sunday, the measuring occurred on Tuesday, and today was the installation. It's a touch darker (and a lot cleaner) than the old stuff. (The guy in the picture is removing, not installing :-)

The only thing remaining to fix up before we can put the house on the market is the front porch -- the first thing that people will see when they come for a look. A lot of the wood has become rotten, and it desperately needs a good coat of paint. We're hoping we won't have to stain the back deck, although it's looking a lot greyer than when it first went in.

Beaver Log!

We went for a walk around the lake today. On previous occasions we've noticed evidence of beaver activity, but nothing prepared us for what we were about to encounter:



As we got closer, we could see that the beavers had been very busy and quite ambitious: they had successfully felled several trees with trunks nearly a foot in diameter, and were well on their way on a few others:



One of the trees seemed like it should have already fallen over; only a slender twig remained holding up a twenty foot high tree:



No doubt the beavers will return tonight, and we'll be awakened by an almighty crash as they finally bring it down and drag it to the water.

Tomorrow I will go look, and if I'm lucky I'll have The Mother Of All Beaver Logs to put on my piano.