Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Welcome to the Chocolate Lava House!

Updated 11-3-2009.

When John and I became homeowners in late February, 2009 (whoops, I mean March 5, 2009), we had all these plans and visions for what we were going to do with our spectacular house with equal measures of problems and potential. We sat down and made a long list of all the things we wanted to so with the house, things we needed to fix, stuff we wanted to upgrade, etc., from short term projects (cleaning up the extremely neglected yard) to those that took a bit of cash (swap out the toilets to more ecological/economical dual flushers) to long range goals (like adding dormers to the back side of the upstairs).
We started out making the changes and upgrades at a relatively rapid pace, and I'd tell different family members about what we were doing, leaving out details and forgetting to tell someone something that was going on. Soon, our enthusiasm for Home Improvement waned and I got tired of telling the same story over and over again, so I decided that a BLOG would be a great way to centrally locate all the projects AND provide motivation for completing them, one by one. Thus, the BLOG was born.
So now, instead of relating stories of our (too few) triumphs and (too many) failures to various people, I curtly tell them to read the blog.

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