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Showing posts with label Driveway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Driveway. Show all posts

Sunday, March 28, 2010

My flower bed

About 2 weeks ago I noticed that my plants were starting to come out!!! I was very excited and took some pictures, but never uploaded them...

Today we went to Walmart (yes, yes, I know :-S) and we bought some cute garden lights, that can be either turned on in a white light or a color changing setting.

We got 12 of them, I wanted to place some of them in the flower bed and John wants to put some around the driveway, I was unsure about that, and none of our neighbors have them around their driveway, so I'm thinking about where to put the rest of them, should it be on either side or the driveway or around the patio in the backyard (if we put them in the driveway, I think I'll buy some additional ones for the patio)??? What do you think???

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Hace como 2 semanas note que mis plantas estaban empezando a salir!!! Me dio mucho gusto y tome unas fotos, pero se me habia pasado subirlas...

Hoy fui a Walmart (si, si, ya se :-S) y compramos unas lamparas para jardin que nos gustaron, y que prenden en luz blanca o cambiando de colores.

Compramos 12, yo queria poner unas en la jardinera y John queria ponerlas alrededor del area de estacionamiento de los carros, yo no estaba muy segura de hacer eso, y ninguno de nuestros vecinos tiene lamparas alrededor de su estacionamiento, asi que estoy pensando en donde poner el resto de las lamparas, alrededor del estacionamiento, o en el patio de atras (si las ponemos en frente yo creo que de todas maneras voy a comprar mas para poner atras)??? Que les parece???

Friday, August 21, 2009

Had to be done

There's a few things that as a new homeowner you have to do that are not as cool, fun or enjoyable as others, but have to get done to ensure that the house you're paying for remains in good condition...

A couple of weekends ago, I tackled 1 of them: sealing the driveway. To the untrained eye ;-) these pictures of the house look the same as previous ones, but I know that I went to Lowes, bought cement sealant and later on, swept and hosed down the drive way, and once it dried I applied it with a roller (just like paint), you can't tell on the photos, but in person it looks a bit shinier... And hopefully this will help so that the salt doesn't get into the cement, and we can have a crap free driveway for years to come :-)

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Hay algunas cosas relativas a ser dueno de una casa nueva que no son tan curadas, divertidas o disfrutables como otras, pero que se tienen que hacer para que la casa que estas pagando se mantenga en buenas condiciones...

Hace un par de fines de semana, me encargue de 1 de ellas: sellar la rampa de la entrada. A simple vista estas fotos de la casa se ven identicas a las que he posteado antes, pero yo se que fui a Lowes, compre sellador para cemento y despues barri y limpie con agua la entrada, y ya que se seco le aplique el sellador con un rodillo (como si fuera pintura), no se nota en la foto, pero en persona se mira un poco mas brilloso que antes... Y espero que esto vaya a ayudar a que la sal (que echan cuando neva) no se meta al cemento, y tengamos una entrada libre de grietas durante anios :-)


Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Drywall is Complete!!!

Hi there! Here my little weekly update. The house looks almost the same, so we didn't take a lot of pictures this time, but there are advances (like the new driveway), and I also got the official status update, that lets me know that this week they'll start working on all the cabinets (kitchen and bathrooms I'm guessing), maybe some of the doors and they're definitely going to start painting this week because we saw all the buckets there!!! Yay!!!

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Hola!!! Este es mi pequena actualizacion semanal. La casa se ve casi igual, por lo que no tomamos tantas fotos esta vez, pero si hay avances (como la entrada al garage), y tambien me mandaron la actualizacion oficial, que dice que esta semana van a empezar a trabajar en los gabinetes (de la cocina y el banio), tal vez tambien en las puertas interiores no se y definitivamente tambien van a empezar a pintar esta semana porque vimos todas las cubetas ahi!!! Yay!!!


Our brand new driveway
Nuestra nueva entrada
The breakfast nook great room and a little bit of the dining room area viewed from the kitchen
El area del antecomedor, la sala familiar y un poco del comedor vistos desde la cocina
The garage
El garage
This is our neighbors (to the right) house, I don't love their colors but oh well :-D
Esta es la casa de nuestros vecinos (a la derecha), no me encantan los colores de su casa pero bueno :-D