Welcome to Se Ramona Street!

So my spring break has all but disappeared, but I did manage to take some pictures of our new house.  I used some big rocks left behind to make a little path to our side patio, and I have garden plans.  Kyle is wrestling with a mosquito netting canopy we picked up at Goodwill for the small backyard deck- the top holds water, which is NOT GOOD in this part of the country. That's the extent of our outside work thus far.

We are situated right next to one of those "streets that is not a street", so there is a big gap between ourselves and our neighbors to the right- a nice family with a bunch of kids. On the left of our house is a really nice older man who lives alone, and the neighborhood cat who loves him, Zuzu.

A close up of my efforts:

This is our patio on one side, and the place I will be planting a lot of my garden on the other side.

The backyard is a mostly shaded utilitarian affair that is well fenced, allowing both Willow and the cats to wander around freely! Not much will grow back there, but it should be cool in the summer...

Now for the inside! The front door opens into the living room, then you walk through the kitchen to get to the basement steps straight back, or take a left to the bedrooms and bathroom.

This shows both ends of the living room, and the beautiful view of our cherry blossom trees from the windows.

Here's the kitchen, which has less counter space than our last place, but more cupboard space- and a sweeeeeet new gas stove- the fan comes on by itself! I discovered this last night while cooking:) Beyond it to the left is a little hallway opening to both bedrooms and the main bathroom.

These are the bedrooms- ours has an extra bathroom(!) and a door leading to the backyard. We plan on getting a futon for the spare room, to better accomodate our lovely visitors (and Amelia whe she finds mice in her bedroom). Kyle insists I show you the toilet seat in the bedroom-bathroom:

Pretty awesome, eh? I want to put a new shower curtain in there, but he says I can't until I find one that "matches the theme". Anyone seen shower curtains featuring giant stags on mountainsides? Yeah, I thought not.

Here's another view of our bedroom, including the mountain of laundry I did yesterday. The other shows the hallway straight back, where we have more storage, and then steps to the basement, which is clean and not scary at all! There's lots of open space down there, a washer and dryer, and a perfect place to put the litter boxes out of Willow's reach.

Cheeto would like you to let her out on your way out the door.

Come visit soon!

An "Eating With St'yle" Quickie

(Posted by Kyle)

We tried the new fake meatloaf made by Field Roast, the company that makes our favorite fake sausages. Texture-wise, very meatloafy. The taste isn't quite there. They have perfected the fake sausage, and their other attempts at fake meat, like the pot roast, tend to taste like the sausages, which isn't a bad thing per se. The quest for the perfect fake meatloaf continues.

Yes, it does look like a big turd.

Update

(Posted by Kyle)

We have not abandoned the blog. The lag in blogging was caused by us freaking out and finding a new place to live when the house we were living in went on the market about a month and a half ago. It's now off the market, but nevermind that because we are much happier with the place we are in now. We are getting settled into the new place and putting some stuff up on the walls, so we'll get some pictures up here soon.

So long, little Lexington house!