Did we buy a house or a jungle?

Here it is!  Our newest and biggest purchase, the Ohana Hale.  This is the view that will change the least in the next few years.  The rest of the place will be under a little bit of renovation for a while.

We got the keys on Friday afternoon, and I was there for maybe 15 minutes (waiting impatiently for the water company to arrive and turn our water back on), when I made the best discovery EVER (almost as exciting as homeownership itself)....

Four little babies (maybe 3 or 4 weeks old) living under the ramp to our shed!  I've named them Sheldon, Leonard, Rajesh, and Howard (they'll just have boy names even if they're girls, sorry kitties!)  Their mama, who I named Penny, is not happy with us yet...but she did eat the food I left for her.  Ohana means family, and family means no one gets left behind, or forgotten. Needless to say, we're keeping them!!!!

The first order of business is to have the house fumigated for termites, which is scheduled for Monday.  The "only" thing that needed to be done before fumigation was to have the plants in the yard cleared from the house.  You will now see why that was problematic....

There are more photos, but you can't even tell where the house is!  SO - we started hacking away at the bushes and plants right away and spent the remainder of the weekend chopping and sawing and hauling the jungle away.  Everyone helped and somehow...it got done...ish.

More to come...

LOVE, JESS