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The new carpenter guy showed up today, 45 minutes late . As I was waiting for him to show … I looked into my backyard to find out what the loud racket was. There were two huge bulldozers taking down tons of trees! I snapped a quick pic on my cell phone.

 

They put up little flags marking my property line. I heard they might be putting up condos. I dunno what to think of this yet. Will my property taxes be effected by this?
When the new carpenter guy finally showed up, he thoroughly looked over the entire house, even the crawlspace. He offered lots of helpful suggestions and advice. He will be able to tackle all of the repairs I would want him to take on. New subfloors, laminate hardwood flooring and lanolium, new patio door, and a new back door. But he didn’t seem very business-like to me at all. Not sure what I think of him yet. Youngish looking, ponytail, sort of hippyish :) I wonder if he does drugs? Well, what matters is what kind of estimate I get from him. If he gives me the cheapest estimate … then the hippy dippy drugee will be granted access to fix my humble little home :)

He’ll be getting back to me in a few days with his estimate.
Keep u posted! :)

I just met with a contractor that paves driveways. He said that all of the existing concrete will have to be removed. The driveway is tore up so badly, there’s no way he can just pave over the broken-up concrete. To pave the driveway with asphalt, will cost $4000! To pave my driveway with concrete, will cost $5500! And I have a small driveway! I’m definitely getting other estimates for my driveway.

The driveway guy said that condos are definitely going up behind my house. He’s going to be the one to put down paving for the streets and driveways back there. I hope my property taxes won’t go up because of this, or my house value go down.

I just finished mowing my lawn and I found a couple happy surprises! A few months ago I found out that my pine trees have these cocoons hanging all over them which contain a kind of worm that eventually destroys the tree. These worms pluck the branches bare and use the pine needles to build there cocoons. One of my pine trees in the backyard had many bare branches and I was afraid the needles wouldn’t grow back. Today as I was mowing I noticed new pine needles growing on the bare branches that the worms destroyed! I’m so happy! I took a picture with my cell phone. Nice little green pine needles growing :) YAYYY!!!

 

 

And the huge monstrous pine tree I have in my front yard is growing little baby pine cones all over :) So this fall my front yard will be absolutely covered with pine cones. Hundreds, maybe thousands! Anybody who wants some pine cones for Christmas let me know :)

I’ll try and remember to bring my camera to my house more often to take better pictures, instead of using my cell phone for pics. Especially when my roses start blooming.

Someone from Warehouse Carpet came to measure all of the rooms in my house today. She’ll get back to me tomorrow with an estimate on how much it would cost to put down new vinyl and laminate hardwood throughout the house. In order to save myself some money, I’ll be removing all the baseboard trim so when the new floors go down, they won’t have to mess with removing it and then nailing it all back. I’ll do that myself.

Thanks to all of you guys for your helpful advice and for giving me names and numbers of people who can help me! :)