Fire!

his morning I went over the house to get some "after" photos. Look at the lovely yellow.

I cant say enough of about how much I like this color.

Now, on the "to do" list Ive added another thing, to get some white trim paint to get that doorway and eventually the window trim painted white.

yellow!

As you can see from this picture, my ceiling fan is missing light bulbs and, since Im quite short, Ialso need to get some chain extensions for the fan and light on the fan. These are items that are on my shopping list, which continues to grow more and more.

Today's project, just like the title said, was fire!

Ive always wanted a fire pit, to get a fire going and roast marshmellows and on cool nights just sit close to it and warm up. Today I finally got one. Dad has a bunch of bricks just piled up at his old house (which they are trying to sell). So I figured he wouldnt mind if I went over and took some. So here is my car load. He has a small amount of several different kinds, so I picked one, and then ran out and selected a second. Not knowing how big or tall I wanted it, we guessed at the amount of bricks we would need. In the end a second trip was required, but I love the finished look a lot.

We ended up building it three times. Mostly to make the two different bricks work together (which they never did), it was an interesting process. At one point I was laying on the ground frustrated because I had thought of a solution and had destroyed a whole side, only it didnt work.

After the second trip and the re-arranging. This is the finished product. I love love love it. The location is great, far enough from the house not to worry me, far from the trees on the side. So needless to say, after all the work, we sat and enjoyed the fire.

The picture below is the title to the house. My mom had called and told me I had a package from the title company. So today when I went over for Easter Dinner I opened it up, and sure enough, there she is. Now to safe keep that in a lock box.

Such an important piece of paper, the reality of me owning a house still has not sunk in all the way, it kind of hits in little spurts.