A Year of Progress

Chris was looking back on last year's calendar and he noticed we rented a moving truck one year ago on February 20. When I look around at all the progress we've made on the house it feels like we've been here much longer. Listing off the projects in my head makes me feel good about the hard work we've both invested, and I am especially proud of my husband's skills and impressive motivation.

The biggest changes have been in landscaping and remodeling the garage. We've planted 45 areca palms, 12 fruit trees, a killer pineapple patch plus we added planters along the front and side of the house and brought in a few truck loads of soil. Chris has done lots of repairs like fixing water leaks and toilets, making a drain so the car port would stop flooding, fixing rotten wood on the deck where a tree had grown through, plenty of painting and power washing, replacing appliances, building a "housing" for the electric meter, installing a vent in the bathroom and closing off an existing doorway, installing countless lights, fixing the broken gate, insulating hot water pipes, repairing and replacing screens and sliding doors, caulking, scrubbing algae off of the roof, fixing a boarded up window, carpet cleaning, and the list goes on....


A Google Street View picture taken before we owned the house:

Less than a year after we moved in: