why here, why now?

Many things going on this time around the planet: G and I bought a house. I just had my birthday. We are coming up on our three year wedding anniversary. Last month, we got from a scuba diving adventure in Indonesia. All these happens made me want to create a space to share the stories of these adventures - and show off the photos to prove it! So here we are. An interesting process, to decide what gets posted and what doesn't. It has kept me from even starting - and everything has to start somewhere. And so, we begin.

We bought a house in a Northern suburb of Seattle. The house was listed with cork floors, something that appealed to the environmentalist in both of us. The previous owners decided to carpet over the cork (the entire upstairs!) to get a quick sale. Their choice of carpet became our heartache - nasty 100% polyester which sheds like an overheated Golden Retriever in a heat wave - and we are removing it. Our plan was to remove it in one room to see what condition the cork is in, and of course true to our nature we got carried away. So we removed the carpet in the spare bedroom (cork in reasonable shape for being 50+ years old) and then we tackled the master bedroom (cork mostly okay). In the process of pulling up the carpet in the bedroom, our new-ish bedframe busted. After many phone calls back to the store, there is a new bedframe on its way to our house. 

Maybe they can deliver a new floor too? The cork is in okay condition - we haven't pulled up carpet anywhere that covers a high traffic area yet, but I believe that we will find a not-so-happy floor when we get to that point. Of course, the floor that we have been drooling over is $18/sqft! (Of course it is!!)

Ah, the saga unfolds.