Progress in the garden!

It's been a while but I'll just jump in as if no time has passed at all. Here are pictures of our garden and the other fruits we are cultivating!

Decorating the House!

Today Laura and I put up the our tree. Here is my beautiful bride next to our very natural tree, we got a Lodgepole Pine.
No tree farm for us! We got a permit to go out into the woods and cut down a tree in a recently clear cut section of the forest. We help mother nature by thinning out the forest, and she helps us with a beautiful and natural tree.
Here is the house from outside for all of you who were wondering what it looks like. Our address is 3749 Lafayette St. Denver, CO 80205.

WE ARE IN OUR HOUSE!!!!!

I do not know if you can tell but I am excited that WE ARE IN OUR HOUSE!! It took a long time but everything looks great. I forgot to take a picture of the new colors on the outside so I will have to add that later.

Here are some before and afters

As you walk in the front door, you might notice that you can see the kitchen and there is not big mushroom.

Here is your view if turned around and looked from the back of the house to the front. I know what you are all thinking, we should have kept the kitchen the same.

These are the bedrooms upstairs. The before does not exist because this was the attic. The guest room is green and our room is the red-orange.

The House Tour

House Tour Part Two

Some New Holes

A tornado came and ripped the front siding off.  NOT.  It was the demolition crew.

Here is the pic from the back.  This is what our new house is going to look like from the garage.  Our plan is to throw on a deck in the back and a balcony off the back gable.  We've got a mountain and city view!

Down to studs.

I know, this is where I should have put a picture of myself with my shirt off--I'm failing my Manker sense of humor by not doing it--oh well.

Demo three days in

Hi everyone, this is Laura. 

Well, this has been quite the process.  We are three days in and we have already filled the dumpster past capacity with much more to dump.  Almost all the lathe and plaster are gone and we have found several artifacts like, a business card for coal delivery BY WAGON (yeah 1800's), Coors cans that must be opened with a can opener and SIX WEAPONS.  You can definitely see the progression of the house.  First it was a wealthy family who could live in the suburbs of Denver and then at some point transitioned into West Side Story house where a fight could break out at any moment.  I promise it is back on the up and up.

Here is the remains of the sliding doors dividing the formal sitting room and the rest of the house.

I must stay thank you to our good friends Ghis, Burke, and Tiff for helping us destroy our beautiful house.  Ghis we love to refer to as the porch demolisher, he took off our front, back, and back room porch thing.

Here is the back porch as Ghis analyzes the best way to take it down.

He is going for it.

I think it's going to go.

And gone.

Here is Tiffany pulling up all the tack, I hated that job. and Burke blowing out any wall he could find.

Thanks again to all who helped.

And the Demo begins!

Laura made quick work of the bathroom.  She took out the mirror, the tub, all the wierd framing and the six layers of drywall.
I couldn't believe it when Laura suggested that we move the shower away from the window so that it could be used for more "natural light".  She's such a hippie.
Here is the beginning of the end for the mushroom.
This is the only part of the house so far that has had the wire mesh behind the concrete.  That is nasty stuff.  I'm pretty much a HOSS in this pic.

Our New House--Unofficially

Start addressing our mail to 3749 Lafayette (in 8 months)!  Laura and I are ready to move into a real house.  We're all growed up now.
Here it is, our gem next to the Recreation center.  Really we'll have it looking like a gem in about 8 months.  We are in the process of buying it through the Good Neighbor Next Door Program.  We have to completely gut the interior and redo the outside but we're very excited.  We can't wait to begin working--let alone actually living in it.  Guapa is excited to go out in the morning without having to be leashed to one of us, and we are extremely excited about the prospect of growing a garden!  Booyah!