House & Home Scene

Ramadama...

umkrempeln, umzieherei, umbauen, renovieren...

I decided that this wordconcens.blogspot.com/ blog is too important an undertaking to klutz it up with personal stuff and, on the other hand ,I see no need to create more blogs on yahoo ,myspace etcetera and then totally lose track of what I've done...never mind alzheimer suspicions.

In any case, I will henceforth in german or english depending how I feel ;report on the progress of whatever realestate or personal stuff I'm working on.

The Florida house , renovations and repairs will have to wait til January or later. The pool area, lenai and garage door need to be fixed. New fence is needed. The place needs a few bucks to be updated. Hurricanes have taken their toll. The pool enclosure was totally demolished by falling tree bits and had to be removed. Hopefully I'll have an updated picture soon.

The Courtice villa; lots of interior painting and decorating, too cold and messy for outdoor work. Extensive yard clean up in spring . I may sell the place mid 07.

The villa was built in 1889, a time of outhouses, and gas lighting no running water. Just systerns and wells.

The old coachhouse had to be demolished a year ago. Several over 100 year old willows crashed into the creek one day. A stream "Black Creek" runs thru the rear of the property.

House by the Lake. I just bought another house, another old place in Cobourg. It needs a new roof right away, the inside has to be substantially renovated. This house was originally built in 1956. Very little has been done with it since. Counters and bathroom have the 50s look...not antique, just delapidated.

I will try to copy and shift some of the pics over from the worldblog if I can..that leaves me to keep the blog free from personal stuff...

The white siding house is in Cobourg, about 100 feet from Lake Ontario Beach, you can see the beach area in town from the backyard. I look forward to moving there, the nicest thing about living by the lake, no mosquitos..some spiders ok but no biterbugs...