Meanwhile, in Bramberville...

I know, I know... long time no post. (wow - nearly a month!) Things have been nutty. We haven't had much time to head over to the house the last couple of weekends, but even in our absence, lots has happened on the house front.

Our new chocolate brown roof was finished 2 weeks ago and the siding has been replaced. The roof looks pretty good; however, the wrong style siding was put on the house! The contractor totally admitted it was their error and has offered to replace it with what we ordered, but they've also offered a pretty substantial discount off of our total bill if we stay with what we've got. And I think we're probably going to take them up on it. My concern is that the style we chose makes our cute little 1940s house look like a prefab mobile home. And I still mostly think it does, but I think we're going to sell out and take the money... I also think that with the addition of the black shutters we've purchased, a revamped stoop/front door and some actual plants around the front, it will look much better. Bryan says when we're rich we can replace the siding. :) I won't hold my breath for that...





The new windows upstairs are also in, but there were some installation issues with several of them, so there will be some reinstallation/replacement happening in the next couple of weeks.

Other bramberville news? We've continued to work on scraping the upstairs floors and cleaning up the hardware from the doors (which is looking great!). Bryan has been fiddling in the attic with clean up and wire-wrangling, and digging holes in the back to investigate our soggy backyard.







We've also been thinking about the landscaping as the weather starts to warm up -- we've got lots of mystery plants and bulbs starting to leaf and grow, so we are looking forward to seeing what we've got to work with. Casey and I worked on one of the beds in the front yard a week or so ago, and unearthed a lot of neon green, stunted bulbs growing underneath about 6 inches of dried leaves! One mystery bulb in the front yard has a giant bud on it, and it doesn't seem to be a tulip or a daffodil, so I'm very curious to see when it will finally open and let us see what it is!







Today we bought grass seed and fertilizer to try to bulk up the lawn a bit and took measurements for the big herb box we want to build and put along the front of the house (to the left of the stoop).

That's all the news fit to print from bramberville (...with Bryan involved, there's totally some news NOT fit to print, but you'll have to come visit to hear about it.) And, don't forget, if you want more photos, less talking, then check out our Flickr set. :)