...in a week or two.
It has dynamite views. I'm so damned excited about all this. The husband is FINALLY cleaning out the garage.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Where you'll find me...
...in a week or two.
It has dynamite views. I'm so damned excited about all this. The husband is FINALLY cleaning out the garage.
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Excited about the house? Or the clean garage? Sounds like the garage is winning!
It's pretty pitiful that I gotta move to get my garage cleaned out. Yes, very excited about the house. Even more excited to see the lifetime supply of nuts and bolts go. I'm sure Habitat for Humanity will be happy to have 'em.
is that the HOUSE??? goddamn!!!
that looks awesome!! wasn't that in david lynch's lost highway? hehe
Holy crap! That's freakin' gorgeous! So glad it's all coming together for you.
But, but, but. . . you never know when you might need a particular nut or a certain bolt. How can you bear to part with them?!
(The house looks very cool!)
Thanks all!
That be it. You can see why I was scared to even get my hopes up. But the owners turned out to be very cool people who took a lot of pride in the place and wanted it to be right. So we resolved the water pressure issue and they did all the needed repairs and we're all ready to sign the papers. But it's been a kind of stressful month.
The kids rooms are dejunked. I have to go through my own room and desk - a job I'm dreading big time. I'll put up some interior pics once we move and get a little settled.
And Bill, know what? If you need a certain nut or bolt, Home Depot has 'em! Isn't that cool? And you can go buy just the number you need and not an entire barrel.
Ain't modern life grand?
Now I know where to send my computer monitor bills to.
The house looks awesome, Mindy. I'm insanely jealous. Hope the move goes smoothly and without hassle.
And home Depot (or B&Q as we call it over here) never has that elusive sprocket you need. Broken sprockets, odd-sized sprockets and bits of junk that might just possibly be turned into sprockets have to be kept. In rusty tins with 'sprocket' marked on them in fading felt tip. And broken tools, too - you never know when they might come in handy. And bits of old bicycles, used tyres, paint pots with an inch of solid paint in the bottom of them, planks with odd-shaped templates cut out of them. All of this stuff is important.
Oh, that looks like a fantastic house. Congrats!
Gorgeous house! :)
Writing retreat at Mindy's house!
Seriously, it's gorgeous. Congrats!
Ah, Mindy, I see that ever-blue sky and miss it so, then notice the saguaro out front and want nothing more than to come back out to the desert...
Until I remember my hand always being cramped from clenching the ever-present bottle of water and the constant pain in my arms from the sunlight beating down and the omnipresent sweat and the lack of green-green (as opposed to the olive-green of the desert)...
Oh, but that sky!
Hope you enjoy this new house, this new home. It feels like it's gonna sing to you. I'm looking forward to the new, better-quality prose you're gonna be cranking out because of your new, hiqh-quality environment.
Enjoy!
You folks are all great.
James - on those sprockets: I should take pics of what's hiding in my garage before the husband does away with it all. He's cleaning and cleaning and cleaning out there. He insists he's pitching things by the bucketful, but it doesn't look any cleaner. I peeked in last night after another pitchfest and the enormous spring that used to hold up the diving board for our pool. The diving board we never used and that I plan to remove the bolts from the cement and pretend we never have is still sitting in the middle of the garage floor.
Why isn't it in the trash? Who wants an enormous broken spring? It will never, ever make a sprocket.
Ever.
Your mouth, God's ear, Forrest. Would that environment made the writer. One can hope because the last bit of the rewrite confounds me. I'm hoping that panic will provide the greater inspiration.
You could tan in the nude in your living room.
WOOO!
Congratulations. Interesting architecture. Lots of sunshine throughout the house?
What a spectacular looking home.
I'm glad you got it Mindy!
Awwww, I think the giant broken spring in the middle of the garage floor is adorable. It means complicated, interesting, fun people live(d) here.
Antiseptically clean organized garages give me the heebie jeebies.
Congrats on the new home!
Yes, Flood tons and tons of sunshine. That's why I like living here - all the sun. In philly, I worked in healthcare, my job involved working in a darkened room. In winter, I got up early, went to work in the dark, then came home in the dark. If I didn't get outside the hospital doors at lunchtime, it could be five days before I actually saw the sun.
Dink - my plan is that the new garage be cleaned, organized and only contain useful objects - like our cars. It will be heebie-jeebies on a nicely swept floor. I'll send you a picture, just to freak you out, okay?
eeeeeeeeee (a little pre-freak)
I bet you're going to dust in there too, huh?
Well, on a positive note in an emergency, you can use it as an operating room.
:-D
I'm just teasin' ...I'm really happy that you'll have the house ...okay, AND GARAGE that you want (but I still think that giant spring is pretty darn cute).
The palce looks beautiful. Congratulations.
So, when's the party? ;-)
So, when's the party? ;-)
I'm mixing mai tais as I type.
Come on down.
Wow, it's so cool! Congrats, M.G.!! I want to live there. =D
Put up the picture of the waterfall!
Glad they resolved the water issue...you're on your way, girlfriend!
Do you live in Phoenix / Scottsdale / Carefree / Fountain Hills / somewhere around there? I've seen this house! It's gorgeous. Congratulations! Now tell me what those cacti are called that get the beautiful orange flowers all up and down the stalk, cuz I can't remember.
You've seen that house, Southern? Where? Aren't you...in the south somewhere? The house is a custom, built by the current owners, but I'm sure it started from a standard plan.
The cactus is called an ocotillo. I have a cactus garden at my current house and I'm going to miss it.
Thanks, Kelly! I'm pretty happy about it all.
Maybe I'll put up the water after we're moved in and settled, Bonnie.
BEAUTIFUL!!!
I'll bring some more Mai Tai mix, because that's a house for partying.
Ocotillo! Thank you. That was driving me nuts.
If it wasn't your house, it was one just like it. I currently live in Mississippi, but I lived in Scottsdale for two years. Also Los Angeles, New Orleans, Des Moines, St. Louis ... you name it and I've probably lived there - but that house stands out and is hard to forget. It's not just a house, it's a showplace.
You're going to be very happy there and I'm happy for you. Save a Mai Tai for me!
Did I mention Vail? I lived there longer than anywhere - 20 years. Woo hoo! But I'm a native Southerner.
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