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After having a yard sale (I made over 200 dollars!) to get rid of a lot of stuff that was more expensive to move than to replace, having our awesome friends over to help us load up the UHaul, and spending a day cleaning, running errands, packing up our campus offices, and other odds and ends, we headed out around 10PM (we just wanted to get out of town and make a few hours), stopping at a "Motor Inn" just East of the (not) lovely city of Dubuque. The hilly area of southwest Wisconsin was a killer way to get introduced to UHaul gas mileage (about 6 miles/gallon), although it did get better as we entered central Iowa. To save gas mileage we didn't run the AC and the UHaul had rudimentary entertainment options, so we entertained each other with things like reading out of the Cloud Collector's Handbook - an informative but hilarious guide to clouds. It included gems like "Cumulus: The little ones, by contrast, are only scary when they take the form of David Hasselhoff."
We camped the next night at Mormon Island State Park (fitting, huh?) in East Central Nebraska. Just before getting there we encountered a beautiful lightening storm to our north.
The next day was Western Nebraska and Eastern/Central Wyoming, which this gas station pretty much summed up.
Our new apartment is in an area called "The Avenues," an older part of the city that slopes slowly at first and then rapidly steeper up the mountain side. We are about a mile up, on one of the steepest blocks.
It took us about 5 hours to unload this thing - just the two of us :)
Here she is! We live in the right half and the landlord stays in the left half, when he is in town, which is apparently never. It was built in 1900 and used to be one home (originally just the front right four rooms. The left side was built a little later and then the back two rooms and bathroom added in the 1950s.
Won't you come in?
Some "before" pictures to wet your appetite - our amazing built in bookcases in the living room! When the two sides were connected that archway went to the other side (the tv is actually resting on some steps in this photo, that would have led up to the other side, which they did so that they didn't have to level the floors on such a steep hill), but it is now boarded and sheet-rocked up, with an outlet and cable jack for us to mount the flat screen on as soon as the tv mount arrives in the mail!
My favorite part of the house - the kitchen. It has a pot rack, a double fridge, restaurant grade gas stove with an awesome hood, a trash disposal, a dishwasher, a reverse osmosis sink as well as a large stainless steel one connected to the water softened water, a wood and glass backsplash, a wood floor, and laboratory countertops.
The back yard is very private, backing up onto the landlord's garage, where he keeps his massive pinball machine collection. I kid you not.
More to come!
We camped the next night at Mormon Island State Park (fitting, huh?) in East Central Nebraska. Just before getting there we encountered a beautiful lightening storm to our north.
The next day was Western Nebraska and Eastern/Central Wyoming, which this gas station pretty much summed up.
Our new apartment is in an area called "The Avenues," an older part of the city that slopes slowly at first and then rapidly steeper up the mountain side. We are about a mile up, on one of the steepest blocks.
It took us about 5 hours to unload this thing - just the two of us :)
Here she is! We live in the right half and the landlord stays in the left half, when he is in town, which is apparently never. It was built in 1900 and used to be one home (originally just the front right four rooms. The left side was built a little later and then the back two rooms and bathroom added in the 1950s.
Won't you come in?
Some "before" pictures to wet your appetite - our amazing built in bookcases in the living room! When the two sides were connected that archway went to the other side (the tv is actually resting on some steps in this photo, that would have led up to the other side, which they did so that they didn't have to level the floors on such a steep hill), but it is now boarded and sheet-rocked up, with an outlet and cable jack for us to mount the flat screen on as soon as the tv mount arrives in the mail!
My favorite part of the house - the kitchen. It has a pot rack, a double fridge, restaurant grade gas stove with an awesome hood, a trash disposal, a dishwasher, a reverse osmosis sink as well as a large stainless steel one connected to the water softened water, a wood and glass backsplash, a wood floor, and laboratory countertops.
The back yard is very private, backing up onto the landlord's garage, where he keeps his massive pinball machine collection. I kid you not.
More to come!
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Date: 2013-08-20 02:00 am (UTC)The pictures of Oink on FB were adorable.
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Date: 2013-08-20 03:29 am (UTC)I think that this when I finally embarrassingly admit that I watch Breaking Pointe, the reality show about the SLC Ballet company. Which I guess it one of the best in the country. The company, certainly not the show.
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Date: 2013-08-20 02:52 pm (UTC)wow, am i ever jealous of your kitchen! and the house situation in general. sharing walls with someone who's rarely there? you win!
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