We Egress

The basement of our new house has an awesome space for the girls bed/play room.

Big closets.

Lots of space.

Peg board walls for hanging treasures.

One problem...no fire escape.

Patton Egress to the rescue!

I wonder how much a business like this spreads by word of mouth.

My neighbors had an egress window put in.

I saw it and said, "that's exactly what I need!"

I get an egress window.

My parents say, "thats exactly what we need!"

Anyway...I egress (hee hee)

They started at 8:30 a.m.

bye bye nasty juniper tree

By lunch they were cutting concrete.

The trim was being done by the time school was out.

Voila! Eight hours later this beautiful, safe window was in place.

Can you believe it?

8 hours!

It's awesome...they did an awesome job and I'm so happy they now can sleep safely.

For all those thinking that this will be a perfect escape for two teenage girls.

Believe me...I'm all over it.

I have a plan!

House Cleaning

I don't love house cleaning.
But who does...really?  Who does?
I do my best.
I clean the toilets, showers semi-monthly.
I do laundry every week.
The two things I hate doing are dusting and vacuuming...but I do them anyway.
Sort of.
I think my house is clean.
Pretty clean for having 2 kids, 2 dogs, and 2 cats.
Joe is out of town, back on the river.
So, instead of ripping out another bathroom...I bought a new vacuum.

WARNING.... GRAPHIC IMAGES FOLLOW!

This was one time around the upstairs only!

Good gravy!

Look at all that dirt and hair.

After I took this picture I went wild.

Behind the couch is clean (and the fridge and stove).

The stairs are clean.

I've dumped the bin twice!

Who knew?

eeewwwww!!!