This marks the end of major construction. It's only been 6 months since we started. My goodness...we had no idea what this remodeling project was going to entail. There's still plenty of little things that need to get done, but we are done with contractors (thank God!) and can take our time on the rest of it. We opened our last box, so we are officially unpacked and moved in!

So, here's another little "before and after" story. In the hallway, there was this built-in desk. We were guessing it was original to the house; very quaint, but utterly useless. We ripped it out (another one of our demolition projects) and hired someone to build a custom cabinet for us. Here's the before:
And here's the "After". We had a local carpenter build a cabinet with bookshelves. Here it is already packed with books.

There's not much "in progress" pictures because we finally got smart and starting hiring the right people to do the work for us.

This weekend had some lovely Texas weather. Spring is coming and I can't wait. So, we decided to spend Saturday mowing the lawn and doing some other yard work. Well, we opened the garage and found a possum had made himself right at home in some leftover insulation from our remodeling efforts. He was a big 'un! He was quite comfortable in his little nest and had no intention of moving. We were debating what to do until we noticed that he was hissing at us! Needless to say, we decided to stay out of the garage and called the city. I must give some props to the City of Dallas. Within 6 hours of calling; an animal control truck came rolling up to our house. The man knew what he was doing. Within a few minutes, he found the possum, and picked him up by the tail (with his bare hands!) and placed him in the trap. The officer mentioned that the possum was definitely "well-fed." We asked what they would do with it and he said they would re-locate it to friendlier territory. I would say that's tax payer money well spent!