And the windows...

We finally replace all the windows. No more water leaking in the house! I assume that also means no more heat/cold leaking in our out, too. At least not as much heat/cold leaking in and out. . . Some other exciting features of the new windows - working locks (good-bye burglar bars!) and screens. (Oh - and Chad made the curtains with our new sewing machine.)

In progress:



Finished:

Friends of Rooster Haus 2

Two developments on the animal friend front:

First - Chad finally got a good picture of the rooster, who has been strangely absent from our lives the past week. I wonder if he became an Easter coq-a-vin? We always threatened him with that, especially when he peered in our kitchen window to cluck at us while we cooked, but we never would have acted on it. So if you see this rooster, please tell him we didn't mean it. He can come back to roost in the tree by the kitchen. We promise not to eat him.



Second - Chad and I briefly fostered a little dachsund whom some friends found roaming the streets. During his brief stay at Rooster Haus, we called him Jerome. He was a perfect gentleman throughout his stay, excepting some amorous overtures toward our friend Chrissy. But allergies finally got the best of us, and Jerome has found a new home where he can be a bed dog, which was pretty much his ambition in life.

Something there is that doesn't love a fence.

And that something, or rather someone, is Chad. . . and me. We disassembled the chain link in front of the house. We plan to create a front yard garden using the fence poles and burglar bars for plants that need a little support to grow. (More pictures when this plan becomes a reality.) We've got some tomato plants, rosemary, okra, and sunflower seeds. We also had some collards, but the aphids enjoyed them before we did.

Here's the before:



And the after: