New Beginings

On March 1, 2013, we celebrated the arrival of our first grandchild, Jillian Grace in Evansville, IN.  She is a beautiful red-headed girl who has already stolen our hearts.  Both mom and Jillian were healthy and happy while dad is as proud as one would expect.

We also received an offer on Zelda the same day and upon returning back to the area on Monday, accepted and signed the offer.  Since we will not be able to live and enjoy Zelda, our wish is for the new owners to fill the house with children and take the restoration further than we have.  One item Brent planned on building was a wrap around porch, especially after he found out the house originally had one.  An older neighbor living just down the street had grown up in the house and explained alot of the history of Zelda to us.

Jillian Grace weighed - 7 lbs 13 oz.

Gram holding Jillian

Gram trying to pry Jillian away for her dad.

Jillian and "Pappy" meet.

Spring Cleaning In September

We drove over to Zelda on Saturday, September 22nd, and spent the entire day cleaning.  Jo Lynn literally cleaned the house from top to bottom while Brent reapplied a water sealer on the deck with a paint brush.

The yard looked great as Sara Workman has been doing  a good job of mowing and trimming the yard and the the spraying that Brent did on the fence line during the winter did a good job of killing the weeds.

The outside building is in the long process of being torn down as the Workman family is using the lumber for their new estate in East Carolina.

Still waiting for the right family, well any family to make Zelda their home.  We are now contemplating renting the house because the housing market with this current, and hopefully soon ex-president continues to be down.

The storage building in process of being torn apart.

The deck after Brent applied the water sealer.

Lynn did a great job of cleaning the house.

The house still looks great.

Cookie inspects the stairs.

Another Quick Trip to Zelda

We made an unexpected inspection trip to Zelda over the weekend.  We received an email from our listing agent who informed us that there was some sort of "fungi" on a wall in the Murphy Room and the living room.  Well the first thought that will run through your head is black mold, but after doing some thinking and internet research, we thought it would be mildew.  Well it was mildew.

We were able to spray and remove the surface mildew from the wall will little effort.  After researching the issue on the internet, Brent left the ceiling fan running in the Murphy Room (and all bedrooms upstairs) to increase the air circulation.  We also raised the heat downstairs from 50 degrees to 56 degrees and placed some moisture absorbing containers in the rooms downstairs.  The air circulation and the moisture absorbing containers (cat litter is also suggested to be used) were suggestions from the internet on how to prevent mildew.  It appears we are having this problem because the house is vacant, there is no consistent fresh air circulation (people coming in and out of the house) and we are in the south.  We will make another trip in a couple of weeks to see if it has returned.

Tried to take pictures of the mildew but it would not show-up from any angle.  It rained the entire time we were there except for enough time for us to gather another full sack of pecans.  Those trees this year were unbelievable.  We opted to eat lunch at Blackwoods Drive-In which serves good food.  The onion rings are great.