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What started out as an attempt by a very mean spirited person to cause our family nothing but headaches became a very easy lesson to learn. We found out a few weeks ago that we needed a permit for our bathroom project completed in January of 2009. We pulled the info off the sight so as not to encourage anyone to do something they shouldn’t and called code enforcement. It seemed incredibly daunting at first, but in fact was very easy. The gentleman I worked with from code enforcement was very nice and helped me figure out the proper steps to take. I went to the building department not completely sure of what I needed to do, and they were even more helpful. The main guy there actually brought out a checklist of everything I needed to submit our fixes and even pulled out a sample of what it should look like. I must say I was not expecting that much help. He made it so easy I went home and in one day got together everything we needed – it helped that we had taken pictures of everything and documented it.

If anyone has any questions on building codes I highly recommend going to the main city hall building and asking the people who work there because they made it so easy.  So all in all it ended up working out for the best, we are permitted now and just have to set up the inspection when we get a free day.

So thank you to the awful individual that has nothing better to do with his time than make others as miserable as he clearly is, because what came of it ended up being a better understanding of the correct way to get things done.

We are working on filling our pool today! Here are a couple of pictures.

A friend that knows my bacon obsession sent me a link to this delicious looking thing: http://www.holytaco.com/if-i-die-bacon-related-death-id-it-be-because.

Since it looked so good, and I have no fear, we decided to give it a try. Here’s pictures of our progress:

Building it up:

Cooking it up:

And finally, the glorious outcome:

If you haven’t heard, we’re in the process of buying a house! We started looking for houses in around February and started finding houses we liked right away. We knew the market is still on a down-turn so we didn’t want to make any full price offers. Luckily our agent was fine with us “low-balling” (more…)