Beefing up Security

We've been increasing our safety at the house starting with our two new security guards - Fla and Bingo. Thank you Drew for the new recruits!!!

Fla (left) and Bingo (right) ready to take down any punks that even think about messing with our house. 

Kevin has also wired in a security light for the corner of the house along with an exterior outlet!

Cooking in a Camper

Pam's yummy chicken enchiladas.

The only reason why we haven't starved since buying the house and moving into the camper is because we have awesome friends. Pam and Dale and Matt and Alissa have cooked us many, many delicious meals. And we have gobbled them all down!

Monday I decided it was time to cook a real meal in the camper. My previous cooking experience in the camper has only involved reheating pizza, serving granola and making grilled cheese sandwiches. But now I have kicked it up a notch and made a meal in the slow cooker.

Top 5 Worst Surprises So Far

Here is a list of our top five worst surprises with the house so far. I will follow up with a top 5 best surprises so far soon.

Moving Out

Dan and Kev moving Kev's big desk.

Last week we finally moved out of our one bedroom apartment in East Duluth and into our no bedroom camper! We could not have moved out of the apartment without the help of Dan, Matt and Pam. Dan came over last Tuesday and helped Kevin move our big pieces of furniture down three flights of steps to their trucks and then off to the storage unit. On move out day Matt did several truckloads with Kevin and Pam came to my rescue by helping me clean and taking our electronics to storage.

Our storage unit is VERY full!

Finding the House

When we looked at the house in April we were able to at least see part of it from the street but not so much in July. The only solution was to buy a chain saw.

BASEMENT!!!! Part 2

Now that we have power and water, we have removed everything under the stairwell and have bleached/power washed the basement.

Yay, no more spider webs!

Dump Day - Chest Freezer

Around here, Saturday is Dump Day!!! This past Dump Day was special because we finally got rid of the in the basement. In the morning Kev called a few waste disposal locations to ask if anyone would take the freezer with the liquefied food still in it. Surprise, surprise - no one would take it. One of the people Kev talked to said, "No one on this planet would take the freezer with that s**t in it."