My N.O.O. House; Overview

That's right, my Not Overly Obscene house.
We're finally moving out of the Cottage Cheese hell that is our apartment, and into a real, made-out-of-wood-and-held-together-with-nails house. Held mostly together with nails, anyway.



That's the view from the front door. Why yes, how nice of you to notice, the carpet is a violent shade of maroon. It worked for the previous tenants...That's all I've got to say. It was pink, but it worked.
However, I'm not pink; never have been, and that carpet runs through every rat-poxed room in the house but the kitchen and the bathroom.
God help us.

There are ceiling fans and a couple of window air conditioners, but my financial advisor has financially advised me that we can't afford to turn them on. So we're going to be renovating this whole house in the scorching south Texas heat, the only breeze being that provided by the broken windows. Better stock up on sweet tea.

The second-biggest problem (behind the carpet that I dislike), is the fact that the house is sinking into the ground. No, seriously. You saw The Secret of Nimh, right? Just like that. So before we can replace the doors, windows, drywall, or roof, we have to find a pack of anthropomorphic rats to come winch up the house and replace the foundation. Lucky for us, they're in the Yellow Pages under Foundation Repair. I hope to have some quotes in a couple of weeks, I'll let you know how it turns out.

While we're waiting on that, but after I get all me crap moved in, I'm going to be chopping down every green, growing thing in the backyard. A few hours destroying Mother Earth's pit hair will do me good.