Monday, July 20, 2009

Dylan on the front porch of where we are living. It is not my camera that is leaning, (look at trees behind the house) it is the house itself.


The scarest cat alive!!!! He will rub on your leg, bite your ankle and torment the birds in the trees!!


Here we have the kitchen window, the boys' bathroom window and Dylan's window. On the other side of the tree is the dorm for the exchange students. We share a wall with them.



On this side we have the window in the laundry area, the window into the master bathroom and the last two windows are into the master bedroom.




The little blue door on the bottom right side goes under the house and is where Teddy hides and stuffs himself on mice.





The only bird left that trys to attach Teddy. Teddy took care of one and D'Kota, with the help of Dylan's bee bee gun, took care of the other one. D'Kota is a pretty good shot! Stupid bird still will not give up.






D'Kota's back room. Just above his dresser is the window into the dorms. Yes, you can see right into one of the dorm rooms.







D'Kota's first room. You can see the door into his dressing area.








One of the useless cupboards in the kitchen. It is not wide enough for anything but cleaning supplies and mice tracks. You can see the mouse trap and the steel wool to help keep them out. That peanut butter is for mice only and that is why it is down there. You can also see to the left bottom the entry way into the next picture. I could not reach very far to clean into the pit.










This is the pit. My camera didn't even want to go into this spot. You can see just how far my arms would reach to scrub to clean it. The cupboard under the sink made this look like it belongs in the Temple.









Where the boys do dishes. One at a time because there is no room for them to stand next to each other and do dishes. And under the sink.











The amazingly clean under the kitchen sink. Yes that is more steel wool and another mouse trap.












The dirty that would not have made me gag if it was under the kichen sink.












Under the kitchen sink now. D'Kota told me that I should have taken a picture of what it looked like before I cleaned it, but I really do not want pictures of that. They will be in my memory forever. To the left of this picture was a shelf of some sort ( and of no real purpose) that only covered the mice nests. I think I scared the cable T.V. guys that day. They were here installing the T.V. Dish and I was screaming and cursing up a storm removing that shelf and vaccuuming, steaming, and bleach scrubbing under there. But look at it now!! :) Wow!














A look at the master bedroom. That is my closet (that is not attached to the floor at all!) And a little linen closet. There was mice tracks on the top of the closet as well as all over inside the closet and every shelf inside the linen closet was covered as well. You can also see some things I don't know where to put. And two bags of clothes that do not fit (the closet, not me) so off to the thrift store they go.















Yes I know, another one.















The view walking into the master bedroom. To the left is Eric's closet that, you guessed it, is not attached to the floor. And another container with stuff that I don't know where to put.


















The only place to put the computer which I hate!! I want it in the frontroom where everyone can see it. And yes these pictures are back wards. Just pretend you are walking backwards and everything is fine.

















The master bathroom. Don't you just love how you can see the pipes for the shower? Wendy said that is a wonderful place for them just in case you need something to grab onto if you need some support in the bathroom. "WHO DOES NUMBER TWO WORK FOR!!!" Silly Wendy! Those pipes are hot when someone is taking a shower!




















The view from the door into the master bedroom. The bathroom to the left and the computer to the right. The furnace (one of them) and Eric's closet. And yes more stuff that does not have a place in this house.





















Another view of the grand entrance into the master bedroom.



















The front room. The kitchen to the left. The master bedroom straight ahead. Another furnace to the left. Just behind me to my right is D'Kota's bedroom. Behind me to my left is the boys' bathroom and then Dylan's bedroom. To the bottom right of this picture, you can see my kitchen table. You can't? O, that's right! I mean the T.V. trays we eat on because this place is not big enough for my kitchen table. Or any kitchen table for that matter.






















The boys' bathroom. It was painted the same as the master bath but Eric could not take it anymore and painted it yellow to match the shower curtain yesterday.
























Dylan's room. It is amazingly not dirty. It is just so small that it looks dirty all the time. To the left is his closet that is also stuffed full of things and you can see that the piles are leaking out of the closet in the form of rubbermaid containers. He can't even lay his rug out all the way, there is no room.

























Here we have the view from in front of the T.V. . The back door to the left, the door to D'Kota's room and the door to Dylan's room. To the right just after the furnance is the boys' bathroom. That is Rufus on the floor there.

























See how big this room is? I am standing in the kitchen.
























The tiny walk way between the couch and the T.V. stand.




























My laundry space. Nice huh?





























The front door can not be opened when I am doing laundry. Of course I can not open my dryer door all the way either.





























The view of the kitchen from the living room. They had the fridge where the white shelfing is at first. So you felt like you had just walking into a tunnel when you first came in the house. And yes, everything is leaning to the left. Everything falls off the top of the fridge and I have no room for my food storage. I have done only little shopping sense moving here. I do not know where to put it when I do.





























Right now it is all on the white shelves to my left and on top of the fridge and inside the microwave stand with all the things that already belong in there.































Another view, I think I sneezed and took this one at the same time. Sorry.
































The stove that I had therapy with (and I scared the poop out of it, didn't I Mom? OK, it was mouse poop. But there was A LOT of it. And I scared about 90% of it out) and the cupboards that I pulled the doors off from. The one that is left I could not get off. Some one painted over the screws that I then dicovered were stripped. OK, that was funny and I didn't even mean for it to be. Get it? Painted over, stripped? Never mind. Any who, I think it makes it look better and you can now see that even thou I am not Betty Crocker, I do not have room for all my dishes and kitchen appliances. But the stove is clean, thank you SO much Mom!!!!! To the right is the only draw in the whole kitchen. And the mice love that one. It has my silver ware in it. Yum!

































At least the stained glass has a nice place to hang. Don't ya think? It is pretty nice piece. Bought it at a yard sale in Fort Collins, CO when we went to visit Ashly. I paid $7.00 for it. I know, good.



































This is my saving grace here in this house. Ever sense Allie dissappeared, this big lug has helped to make all of us feel better. His name is Rufus (Rufus Dufus that is). Isn't he beautiful? He is house trained and only barks when someone is at the door and has decided that D'Kota is his. At least he is nice enough to let D'Kota share the bed. D'Kota gets whatever is left over. And he loves to go with me in the mornings for my walks. He also loves to run on the track with Dylan.

































Teddy also thinks he is wonderful and is trying to convince him to lick his head like Sugar use to. Rufus has not had to desire to do so.... just yet anyway. But does like Teddy, most his food. My Father in Heaven loves me and this dog is proof. He was waiting here for us when we got here and no one in town wanted him. We are his now. Happily Ever After right?




































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