The story behind the name

I have always loved sea glass because of the beautiful green, blue and brown hues that are made even more breathtaking when they are tossed in the water. I am also drawn to pretty glass bottles, especially those with unique shapes, textures or stories. When we purchased our land, it had lot of garbage where our driveway now sits. Included in this garbage were lots of glass bottles in all different shapes, sizes and colors. As unappealing as this may sound, there have been many beautiful and unique glass bottles found at the property. While we obviously do not want to drive on a green glass road, the road itself was only made possible after lots of green glass was recovered. So therin lies the story behind the name of the Adventures at Green Glass Road.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

The house that Ebay, Craigslist and an auction built!

This was a very exciting a productive week at Green Glass Road. First, we were able to purchase a little more than 2/3 of our wood flooring at a significant discount from a wholesaler that was going out of business. Thanks to Keith's co-worker, Bob, for tipping us off to that auction. It is a beautiful color, and very high quality (see picture in the slideshow). The only downside is that we are now storing 1300 sq. ft. of it in our current home until it is installed this summer. Oh well, you get what you pay for, right? I can tell you, my husband is NOT going to be paying for storage fees :)

In other news this week, all the windows were installed. Very exciting to see them all up. Keith and Ronnie got them in very quickly on Saturday, so they spent most of the rest of the weekend prepping the garage and the front porch for the concrete that we hope can get poured next week-weather permiting. The weather has been crazy here, as everywhere else I am hearing. It will be 70 today, but last week we had flakes of snow. Overall, it has been a rather windy winter, with some really cold days, but not much snow (especially compared to our record breaking year in 2010). I am enjoying the warm weather with the kids, and the days which are slowly getting longer.

Julia finished level one swimming on Saturday, and she will begin level two this week. While she was doing her lessons a couple of weeks ago, Andrew and I were eating a snack and playing around with the camera. As you can see, he seems to like the camera quite a bit!

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