1910 Photo

A couple of weeks ago I was out working in the garden and van pulled up and out came about 10 people. They asked if I didn't mind, maybe they could take a picture. Well I dusted off and after a little chat came to find out these folks were all descendants of the Rimmer family, who built our house. They were in the area for a family reunion and they gave me this photo from around 1910. It's pretty cool, if you look close you can see four people on the porch, a dog in foreground and one on the porch that looks like a hound dog. You can also kind of see a side entry in the back. They must have added on the wraparound porch after this.

Since the last post Aaron redid the other bathroom by putting up drywall, taking down this weird stucco-textured ceiling stuff and repainting the beadboard underneath. He also took down the cabinets that were in there and we put in an over-the-toilet rack for the towels and some shelving above the washer and dryer. Oh and we painted it a light creamy yellow color and repainted the vanity and the light fixture above it. It seems a lot lighter and roomier in there. Here are photos of before and after, the before shot is the only one I have of that room and it's from when the old owners were here but you can see the dark cabinet and the weird greenish paneling that was in there.

We also had Sam, the plumber who redid the pipes in our old house, come out and redo the pipes here. This is after we had to call a couple of times to get leaks fixed. So now the pipes are nice and slug up against the house. And no more copper pipes, this should prevent the freezing-pipes problem we had last winter.