I have decided to resurrect our defunct blog in order to make an official post and keep record of the finally completed resto-vation of our Parlor! This is for those of you who were not satisfied by the more simple 'before and after' pictures of the Facebook post, and want details on the nitty-gritty of a complete remodel. For those of you not in the 'know', this was the first room that I started on when we moved into our house 8 years ago. Three kids, a lot of steep learning curves, and numerous 'more pressing' projects later, and it is finally finished! Lets start with a few before pictures. I apologize for the clutter, but these were taken literally the day we moved into the house. View from the Living Room Facing East View from doorway Ceiling (notice cracks in plaster behind wallpaper) Looking out towards Living Room The first order of business was to strip the wallpaper. Not to hard, right? One would think not, except on...
Ok, so it has been a preposterously long time since we last updated this thing. My main excuse is that, as we did not have our own house to live in, I couldn't update as I didn't want to put a bunch of pictures on my in-laws computer, but if I'm honest with myself, I was just being lazy. But here it is! Rejoice, masses, for the Andersons have returned to the internet! So the last time we updated, we had just returned from a nice vacation to Michigan for Tracie's wedding. While we were there, Stephanie applied for jobs, since the odds of me retaining my job at ACA were diminishing by the day (although to this day I have not received official notice of my termination, although it is clearly assumed). Well, she got it, and so two weeks after she got the job we were packed up and heading back to Michigan, for good. But, before we left, our friends and various social circles held farewell parties for us. This was the general 'friends' party at the Wojo's house. I...
It's July 20, 1969 and a group of groovy cats have been invited to hang out with hippie superstar Hedda Leiss as she prepares to go on a cross-country psychedelic bus trip to the long awaited Beefstock concert... But then, as Neil Armstrong prepares to step on the moon, a blast rips through Hedda's tour bus. Hedda has been murdered! So which one of the psychedelic hipsters chillin' and lovin' at Hedda's pad was responsible for the dastardly deed? Meet the suspects: Juan Stepford Mann (A.K.A. Kyle Rosander): An 'astronaut and supposedly one of NASA's golden boys. A decorated Air Force major, he's bound for the moon on one of the next Apollo missions because he's got the right stuff...or so he'd like us to believe. He's been Burnette DeBrah's escort for several months. He doesn't really get the whole hippie movement, but he is 'largely' welcome when it comes to love-ins, and is known on the circuit as Apollo 13 and Rocket Man. B...
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