Tomorrow, May 1st, we will be in the Muskogee Phoenix Newspaper. We met with a journalist who wanted to do a story on our house and the history behind it and we are so excited to see how it turns out. If you live locally, pick up a copy! If you are following from out of town, I think you will be able to view the newspaper online at www.muskogeephoenix.com. Let me know what you think!
As for the house, things are still going smoothly! The insulation was sprayed in by A&A Spray Foam Insulation and the closets upstairs are getting framed in along with the wall that will divide the master bath and laundry room. The electricians are still getting everything wired in, which has been a huge job starting from scratch and wiring the entire house!
The entire attic space looks like this and is top of the line insulation!
Because of the age of our house we were kind of worried about lead paint being present so I decided to head on over to Lowe's and get a test kit. Unfortunately the test results were positive(see the pink test stick in the picture) so we called a paint company, Reliable Painting Company from Eufala, OK, who specialize in lead paint testing to come out and do a proper test. Fortunately, after they tested the entire house, they only found it in a few certain places where the same color paint was used. So they are going to give us an encapsulation plan to seal it up and we will be on our way. They also told us that our workers aren't at risk because it isn't pealing and they aren't sanding it or messing with it so that was wonderful news.
On the side of the house where the garage will go there are tons of beautiful purple Iris flowers. We are NOT very good yard/flower people but from what I understand, these are pretty durable, so we decided to replant them in the back yard since they were going to get dug up anyway. We planted them around some of the trees in the back and I think they look great. At least for our skills they do! Ha! If they don't make it, then at least we tried.
It's a little bit harder to see in this picture because we need to mow!
Todd decided to venture up on the roof and I just happened to be in the front yard when he yelled down and freaked me out! It's a LONG way up there!
Just a note on the Irises. Those there and on around our property were the last ones planted by Mrs. Garrett (Judge Garrett's wife)according to her daughter Liz whom we bought our house from. I thought you might like to know, I guess the flowers have some history too! They should do fine if you didn't plant them too deep and they get watered but not overly so. I love them.
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