Here is a satelite photo of our home…if we can get this free off the web, what can the government do? (think of K in Men in Black….)

We have been working on redoing our masterbath this week. It was pretty wretched to begin with. It was a pretty significant project. We gutted the whole thing except the shower. The wallpaper was stuck straight on the drywall, without a primer. It was a bear to get off. We added a recessed medicine cabinet, rewired the overhead can lights to a new wall light, and put in a new vanity…not to mention some paint and crown moulding. We are pleased with the results.

It has been an exciting couple days in the Creason back yard! I came home yesterday afternoon that Cassie had found a four foot snake that looked pretty vicious (I wasn’t home and the experience was quite unnerving for Court). Well, today, I came home, and Cassie found her friend again. I agree, it didn’t look too friendly, however, I’m certain it’s a nonvenemous snake…albeit pretty sizeable (5′4″). In order to hopefully help give us some peace of mind about being in our back yard, I dispatched the snake in the quickest way possible (although now nearly 3 hours later it’s still squirming and Cassie is still barking at it…from the kitchen). I dropped the axe on it once and it was all over. If it were small like last year’s snake, I probably wouldn’t have killed it, just relocated it. But this one was too big, too close to the house, too aggressive, and crossed our paths twice within 24 hours. It had to go.

We bought wall bricks today to build a wall around a flower bed in our back yard…1300lbs of bricks. And we had to move them all individually. What a pain. My Explorer was sagging big time as I drove home with my load.

We’ve got our Christmas decorations up. Here are some pictures to give you an idea. We have had fun decorating our house together.