The house has been fumigated again and we have been safe and good.
That would be this cute little guy. A teeny, tiny gecko. Maybe an inch long.
It showed up!
The "Cousin It" bush/tree thing in the courtyard before...
The lovely "Secret Garden" tree after.
This is the part of the wall separating our back patio from our neighbor's.
This is just to the right of the picture above. From the patio out into the yard.
Again, just a bit further right from the last photo. Trench dug.
Can I tell you how amazing (yes, amazing) it is to use a large capacity washer and dryer after you've been using a stackable, miniature-person, teeny-capacity washer and dryer combo?
AMAZING:
Before in the itsy-bitsy washer we could wash at one time, maximum:
*2 pairs of C's shorts and one pair of mine.
*3 towels, and 2 washcloths. And, that was stuffed.
Here?! HOLY cow! I could fit like 10 pairs of C.'s shorts if I wanted to. AMAZING.
Friends, on the serious side - when you live without something and then magically it appears in your life it is pure sugar. Sweet, sweet sugar.
Note: Thought I'd show you the "room" our washer and dryer are in. It's "open air" and is located behind our kitche. (There's a door dividing the space. Whew.) It is so open air that yesterday three birds decided to fly in and scare the hell out of me. (I say hell, because there was no other word for it.) As some of you know, I'm not big on nature and am not one to welcome nature into my home.
Today, a cockroach also welcomed himself in the laundry room and I killed him DEAD with RAID. It was amazing. Then, I left the corpose there in his foamy deathbed until C. could get home to dispose him properly.
Unfortunately, the stove we wanted to get at Home Depot is out of stock and they don't know when more will be in stock. SO... we will get one at some point this week... just might spend a bit more than we wanted. Until then, this lovely little jobby will sit in our kitchen and hold water bottles and the like.
*Note: Thank GOODNESS for the toaster oven. :-) (Ironic, I know...) But I'm thrilled we're actually using a toaster oven in lieu of a REAL oven. You know, as all people should...
The washer and dryer showed up today!
YAY! YAY! YAY!
Who's going to have clean clothes tonight?
We are!!!
Yesterday we moved from Mykonos 201 B to the house on Fonatur.
I'm exhausted. And excited.
1.) It was 90 degrees.
2.) We had worked all day, then moved at night.
3.) We moved all of our stuff from the second floor, into our cars, to Fonatur, up about 12 stairs, a short walk and into our new house. I'm too old for this.
4.) Since I was in a new place yesterday, I didn't sleep well. Don't you hate it when you wake up every hour?
5.) We have no microwave (must buy) and our stove doesn't work. Thank goodness we have that toaster oven. :-)
I LOVE our new place. It's quirky, but then again - so am I, and whether he wants to believe it or not, so is C.
So, it's an absolute mess right now, but ah, well.
Last night around 11:30 p.m. we were both sweaty and gross. I tried to take a shower but found that there was no hot water. That was frustrating. Hopefully today there will be hot water.
Before. Ugly wood.
Before Ugly. Ugly color. Ugly light. Ugly combo.
After: The almost finished kitchen!
Stainless hardware and hinges
C.'s painted crown molding. So nice, good lookin'
New Light fixtures
This wall separates our patio half from our lovely new neighbors.
Happy with it. (More camera phone pictures.)
1. Water.
2. Cheese
3. Jalapeños
This made me smile.
Last night we went over to the house so that C. could put up some crown molding on the cupboards before the painters paint today.
We were there from about 8:30 until 11:00 p.m. He does everything perfectly. Precise cuts, etc. And, the poor guy had to use a little saw, nothing electrical. He's my hero.
Yay, the cabinets will be painted white. The painters were taping as of yesterday... I think painting should start today.Or, click here to see the dotphoto album thumbnails. (May be faster than the show above.)
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