On the drive home.

Two Egg, yes, we went to Two Egg. The funny thing is there is NOTHING to Two Egg. It's a wide spot in the road and a Y junction. That's it. Sad. We have talked about going to Two Egg for years.


Donaldsonville. A mix of old and new.


Easter colored round bales of cotton!! There were powder blues later in the distance.


Picking up peanuts! Harvest time!!
Ok that was the extent of our commute home on Saturday.

Is it a wrap??

The back door.
There are literally no straight on shots of the back door. Hum. Apparently we concentrated on the interior. Yeah, it's true but this is an excerpt from a prior photo giving you an idea on how the blinds in the back door were.

They were metal, undersized and clanked every time you opened and closed the door if they were down.


Today this is how they look. I bought some cellular shades the proper size to cover the whole window for privacy AND put the bottom mounts in as well. NO clanking!!


Yay!!!

The rest of today was painting, waiting for paint to dry and painting again.

The payoff is huge!! Doors on all the closets!!
Before:


After:


Before:


After:


It seems weird to have closet doors now. I put in some door guides to keep them from swinging in and out.

I've even cleaned all my mess up too. One more coat in my "boo-boo" I did in the coral room and were all good! Yay. Productive few days here.

Work and play, work and! play

So today was another early morning. Yesterday it was a 4 or 5 am wake up due to the fridge noises. I did go back to sleep after that, but still interrupted sleep. Today was the sprinklers. It sounded as though some one was walking through leaves outside my windows. Crunch, crunch, CRUNCH, CRUNCH. Yeah, no, it was the sprinklers hitting the palm by the front door. Then I laid back down and got a text. To that persons defense there was no way they could have known that I was an hour behind their 8am time frame (7am here). Sigh. I'm up now!!

The "grass" looks deceptively green doesn't it?


Yeah. It's not. It's sparse and very iffy! Oh well there's time to make it pretty.

What did I do today?? I got up and went into the shed to see what paints I had left over. I had a tiny bit of trim paint. NOT enough to cover four closet doors. Drat it! Off to Home Depot for trim paint.

Of course before I left for Home Depot I saw the poison and decided to poison the yard (squirrel!!) and turn off the sprinkler system per Butch's request. So I poisoned the yard and went looking for the drain valve.

The sprinkler box was full of sand. I dug it out. Did I mention I LOVE yard work here as it's all sand. NO clay!!!! It's so lovely to work in!!


Sprinkler box all dug out!! No drain by the way!! Oh well, it's done. I texted Butch and he told me where the drain plug is. It's all drained out now!!



And the doors now have paint on the fronts!! Making progress!!


While between coats I saw a fluttering outside and wondered "what the..??" I liked closer. Can you see it??


Yeah, when I went out to take a picture I scared it. It eventually came back. A BIG vulture! He was eating a squirrel that had been on the road squished from the night prior.



Oh and on a side note our pumpkin seed are done and tasty!!

We hung out at the house for the day watching TV, napping and painting doors.

For dinner we went to Old Bay Steamer for Angela to have her crab legs for dinner.


We order a big steamer bowl with shrimp and crab legs. Yum!! Angela had her fill of crab legs. She was nice enough to share a few legs with her grandma and me.


It was a GREAT dinner!! We barely finished it all!

Fall Break in Florida...and some at home

Well Angie wanted to stay in town to go to the fair. Ok I can start my vacation (which, when you own a vacation house is NOT a vacation) but, hey humor me. Ok?

So the vacation started out as nothing like a vacation. Liz and her friend Madison came home due in part (and thanks to Hurricane Mathew) they came to the house on Thursday night. It turned out to be a LONG road trip for them as they were stuck in the mandatory evacuation traffic from Savannah. Yeah the 2.5 hr trip took them 5. Butch's poor cousins were stuck in the same traffic for over SEVEN hours!! They took us up on our offer to stop and stay at our house on Thursday night. Cindy and her mom (Aunt Mildred) called first but Mary, her husband and their grand baby Braxton and three dogs. Full house! All was well. We had enough beds for all.

They all got up early and made their way the rest of the way to ATL that morning.

We ate Korean, had Waffle House and on Sunday I did laundry at the laundromat for sleeping bags and larger comforters.


On Monday I went to the fair with Angela and Gracie. I went and checked out her art and walked the fair. I saw nothing that I hadn't already seen a thousand times before.


Angela's self portrait.


Her sea creatures.











New signs in the freeway.
We settled in and visited with Sally, had some dinner and headed to the beaches watch sunset.





























Ahhhh

Wednesday.
So the night prior I turned on the light in the master bath and it went semi dark. Sigh. It was a curly bulb so I figured I would just change it and be done. Yeah, no such luck.


The inside plug receptacle was loose and spinning. I was thinking that a wire got crossed. Well, no wires crossed. Hum...what gives??? So after all that I changed to ANOTHER new bulb and it worked. Sigh. All that for nothing. Well, not really nothing. I did tighten the inner receptacle so that's a plus. So light tightened and put back.

Quote for insulation requested and the guy came out and will be sending me a quote in email shortly. Yay!! No more hot/cold kitchen.

And in the light of day I took a picture of Butch's new grass. It's not much, but it's there.





It's getting there.

So during the day we went shopping and wandering around town. We ended up with a pumpkin!! Angela's request.

She dug right in as soon as we got home. I grabbed the seeds and brined them for roasting tomorrow.


While out I picked up an oil dispenser so that's filled. (Filling here)



And HERE is how far I got with the doors today. I got one coat of Kilz in before I ran out. So tomorrow I guess it's a trip to Home Depot for some Kilz. I need to check my paints too to see if I have trim paint in the shed or not.


Pumpkin in pogress


But in the mean time it was off to the beach to watch the sunset.








Butch called just as the sun was going down so no pictures for today. :(

On the way home a late dinner of Stewby's and watching Hocus Pocus


And Angela finished her pumpkin. :)


Both nights she abandoned me for a more familiar place to sleep. Fickle girl. Happy Grandma!!

The little house is open for business!

High season May - September		Low season October - April
week	day	week	day
$              641	$        115	$        550	$          98

Until I get the website and calendar set up, call me or message me for availability.

As this is a friends and fmaily rental you can opt to skip having the house cleaned by a cleaning company prior to your arrival knowing the house would have been cleaned by the prior occupant only.  knowing there could be dust and even a dead bug or two.  We have a quarterly bug service, so dead is all we have been finding when we go to town.  If you choose this option subtract $100 from the prices above.  All occupants will be requested to do the dishes and wash the sheets and put them back on the beds prior to leaving.

We also provide a number of paper products and would appreciate you replace what you use.

So - on to the house introduction!  Meet the Tiny House in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
It is 1166 sq foot and itching to have someone rent it and go play at the beaches or visit with Sally (she's right behind us!) 

The house layout.

The Living Room:

The living room features a queen size pull out sleeper sofa, two arm chairs and a love seat for a lot of seating options.  We have a 50" smart TV with cable and premium channel options of Starz and HBO.  The smart TV is connected to the internet, so you can stream your choice of on line services. There are also a few games available as well.

The Kitchen and Dining Room:

  straws, knives, dish towels and place mats.

Misc kitchen tools and silverware all to the left of the sink

 Dish drainer and a number of cleaning supplies under the sink.

Dishwasher for your convenience.  Just in case you can't reach the top items, a folding step stool is to the right of the dishwasher (for now)

 Open storage for your food as well as a variety of sizes of bowls

 Food storage, plastic insulated travel cups, wine glasses, plates, regular glasses and a variety of size mugs for your use as well as paper towels (the number will dwindle as these are left over form construction and painting!)

 The peninsula has a nice sized drawer under the microwave nook (microwave to be provided soon!) with a number of casserole dishes

Dishwasher soap is currently being stored above the pull out cookie sheet and splatter guard pull out.

  to the right of the stove, you will find utensils, pots, pans, strainers as well as stainless bowls with lids.

 A pull out waste basket with garbage bags stored in the back.

 The kitchen is set up with a table that expands to seat up to 8

The legs pull out to reveal a leaf stored inside the table.

Extra chairs are in the back left bedroom (in the coral room) closet as well as a high chair in the bunk room closet.

The Bathrooms:

Each of the bathrooms feature wall mounted sinks, original tile and toilets (meaning they are short!)  They both also have wall mounted mirrored medicine cabinets original to the 1960s house. Each has a good sized storage closet behind their doors that will contain all the bath towels, hand towels and washcloths as well as a number of toothbrush/toothpaste sized containers for, well, toothbrushes and toothpaste and/or makeup or whatever you would like to use them for.  If you store toothpaste, please remember to pop them into the dishwasher on your way out so they are clean for the next guest!

The Main Bath;

an oversize shower head with a wand feature.

Bedrooms:

The coral bedroom and the bunk room both feature towel hooks and a small mirror mounted behind their doors to ease the need to use the bathrooms for getting ready in the mornings. 

Each of the bedrooms closes contain extra sheets, extra blankets, suitcase stands and beach towels for your use while you are here.  Two of the rooms have rolling dirty clothes hampers and soon there will be a few clothes baskets for your use as well.

The Bunk Room:

yeah, I know, this closet is really a work in progress - the dresser needs to be painted a nice white to fit better in the room (soon, soon!)

The Coral Room:

The Master Bedroom:

The Master Bath (aka the half bath):

The Laundry Room:

would you believe I forgot to get pictures of the laundry room as we were dashing out of the house?  I know, shocking, right?  Sigh.  AND Mom and dad painted it so nicely over the weekend too.  Goodness!!  Let's just say it's a cozy little laundry room with a full size washer (with auto dispensing softener - my favorite feature) and full size brand new dryer (long story there!).  The washer still sports its instructions in the inside of the lid (complaint I heard from a frequent vacation renter friend of mine!)  There are a few laundry tabs and some softener in there as well - again - replace what you use if you would please :)

In addition to the LOVELY washer and dryer there is an AWESOME "wonder wheel" cart for your use at the beach as well as a number of beach toys, a few camp chairs, a beach umbrella and a sand screw (a must for an umbrella for sure!)

The Back Yard:

There is a nice cloths line to hang towels and bathing suits from.

And remember those camp chairs?  You can sit in the shade of the old oak tree and watch the squirrels play over your head :)