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Upcoming Travel

With the Green House Project consuming whatever portions of our lives not taken up by work or sleep, travel has been a not-to-be-discussed topic, which is extremely unhealthy for both Brandy and I. Our wanderlust is itching BAD so with the end of Phase One of the Project coming to a close soon, travel has re-entered our conversations of late.

The Green House Project: Week 8

January 13-15, 2023

This week was pretty challenging. After sustaining an injury last week, I was doubtful I’d get much done. After returning to Coralville last Sunday, I did a self-check and was pretty sure I’d given myself a hernia. That may or may not be the case, but I was able to power through and get a huge chunk of stuff done.

The Green House Project: Weeks 5 and 6

December 24, 2022 – January 1, 2023

If you see my post from last week, you’ll see that we were unsure that Craig and Sue would make it up Saturday to help move our spare bedroom over to the house.

After some bitter cold, gusty winds and about 6 inches of snow on Thursday into Friday, they were still able to come up Saturday morning.

The Green House Project: Week 1

November 18 – 27, 2022

We closed on the house that will henceforth be known as the Green House on Monday, November 14, in Cedar Rapids. After all the documents were signed, Brandy and I made the 2 hour drive down to walk into the house for the first time as the owners.

We had some paint samples with us that we’d picked up at Menard’s over the weekend prior, as well as a handful of tools and supplies that we dropped in the house. We took down the curtains that had been left on just about every window in the house, threw them in a trash bag and painted some swatches of the sample paints on the wall, then headed over to her parents’ to drop a key before heading home.

Then, the real work began in earnest.