Projects – 2008 in Review

I was sitting around trying to think about what we did all year.  It seems like 2008 was a slow year for us as far as the DIY scene was concerned.  In the early part of the year, around March, we spent a lot of time getting construction bids and filling out mountains of paperwork for [...]

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

I would like to thank all of the different persons in Alexandria for all of their hard work in helping clean up Gustav’s mess!  Thanks to the City, law enforcement, utility companies in and out of state, AT&T, insurance companies, local churches, neighbors, etc.  You all did a great job!  Gustav devastated the area and [...]

Gustav Aftermath

Well, you see the picture below of the dumpster.  Here is the same picture, except with a pecan on it!  Lol. I have more detailed comments on my other blog at: www.cenlahistory.wordpress.com but here are some pictures of what our backyard looks like now.  If the dumpster were not there, my car and my brother’s [...]

Gustav Aftermath

Here are the pictures of the area around our house.  The power is back on!  Yay! We had power for a long time last night.  In fact, we felt like a beacon on a hill — everyone around us lost power around 7 or so, our lights shone bright until about 9:30.  I thought that [...]

One Pecan Down…

No sooner did I hit “enter” on that last post did one of the pecans come tumbling down.  It took out my car and my brother’s truck.  Luckily, we had that large dumpster in the backyard and it took most of the brunt.  If it would not have been there, my dad’s Blazer would have [...]

Gustav and Cenla

Well, instead of working on the long list of house projects, I am sitting indoors, watching the weather and hoping that the two very old pecan trees that are in very close proximity to my bedroom, do not collapse on my house!  We had the above dumpster delivered so we could start demo on the [...]

Gettin’ Ready!

On Friday I arrived home to find that my husband had the above dumpster delivered in time to make good use of our Labor Day holiday.  Yipee!  We had already started some demo of the upstairs, but this dumpster gave us the authority to take our sledgehammer-ing to another level.  We now had somewhere to dispose [...]