To give you an idea of what I've been dealing with in this house and why you haven't seen me in a year and a half, here is a before shot of the outside:



[NOTE: The color of the before shot is skewed, the outside was slime green too!!! ]

And here it is after, thanks to paying gobs of money to redo the outside. New siding, new windows, new front door, new garage doors. There wasn't any way I could do this myself..it would take me years!