Weston Says… Are We Done Yet?, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
And we say back to him… Oh yes… yes we are little man! More walks for you!
Archives
All posts for the day February 8th, 2009
Master Bathroom Sink Anew, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
And this is the master bathroom without the funky sink, the strange cabinet, or the red paint. Oh, and it now has a wall and a new shower. There is that. LOL I might sound a tad sarcastic, which isn’t quite my intention. It’s just that this place was a bear. The more we got into it the more we had to do and so on and so on and so… it was a big job. We started in October and yesterday (a BIG WOO HOO here) we signed the rental agreement with our new tenants and finished up the very long chapter of 11th street renovation. YEAH!!
It felt strange today. Our lives now our own again. We hung out this morning until we felt like leaving, then took the dogs for a walk at Cathedral Park, which was followed by a little shopping at Trader Joe’s, then home and a movie. It’s only 7:44 now and it’s been such a lovely day. We’re excited about next weekend, and this week, and well… all the free time we now think we have. Free time we can use to work on our place, to hang out with friends, to go shopping, to see a movie (at an actual theater), to go hiking with the pups, to visit with family, to accept dinner and activity invites from friends, to do whatever the hell it is we want to do, when we want to do it.
We were driving along 21st today in Northwest and Karen was looking around and said, “wow… all of these shops look different when you know you might actually be able to wander around and go in them”. We laughed after she said that. What a relief. We now have the time, if we so choose, to go in some of them. We are free, and life is good.
I bet all ya’all can hear the collective sigh coming from this direction…. ah…. deep breath and… relax.
Across the Living Room, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
Here it is, completed… across the living room looking into the kitchen.
11th Street Master Bath?, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
This is before the renovation as well. Dig the sink.
Bad Backsplash, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
Here’s another… from inside the kitchen looking at the wall between the kitchen and living room.
Kitchen – Pre-remodel, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
Ok folks… here it is. This is a before shot of the kitchen on 11th street before we remodeled it. Notice the dishwasher, the really bad backsplash, the fact that the cabinets are up on the right, meaning there’s a wall there in this shot. And now…
Hawthorne, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
This week’s hunt is all about bridges. I have taken, recently, to walking along the Eastbank Esplanade, downtown Portland, Oregon. It’s a great place to take the dogs for a walk. One of Portland’s nicknames is bridgetown. 10 bridges cross the Willamette and Columbia Rivers within city limits. Pretty impressive. The Hawthorne, pictured here, is one of my favorites.
I haven’t been in the hunt for awhile now. Too busy with life stuff I guess to be at the computer much more than to just load photos onto flickr, blog a word or two, and then get up to do other things. In the interim I’ve been through the holidays, had three feet of snow at the house, had no power during those times on three separate occasions… the last time it took the power guys 5 days to fix it and that was because they couldn’t get up the road until the snow plows made it out here. I live in the woods, it took them awhile, but actually it was faster than I thought it might be. I’ve also finished work on the rental project we were up to. It’s our second. It was a bear. Much more work than expected. Means that since October I’ve basically had two jobs. My day job, and then the night and weekend job of painting and mudding and taping and hammering and the like. It’s over now. Woo Hoo! And it’s rented. Now, thanks goodness, it’s sort of life returning to normal… LOL Whatever that is.
If you’d like to join in all the fun by posting the weekly photo for the hunt, CLICK HERE for all the details.
