updates

The camera battery is dying so no pictures, just some quick updates. We lined up someone to repair the kitchen floor and finish the kitchen, laundry room, and sunroom floors in July. The painter is also contracted to start work in July, just after we get back from a week in Wisconsin. No real idea on exterior color yet, perhaps a sage green or a light grey close to the current color. We're thinking of doing the dining room in a brick red to match the hearth tiles. A dark, slighty orange red should complement the brown kitchen and bronze-green sunroom.

On the "actual work" side of things, Ted emptied one of the downspouts and Kelly did one of the gutters. The downspout was packed full to about 5 or 6 feet of what turns out to be rich looking soil, and the gutter was an ecosystem in itself -- soil, earthworms, tiny trees ...

Thus we continue to reclaim the house from nature and the ravages of time.