[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] okay okay um uh what's your house like
[speaker002:] well it's four bedroom two bath a brick ranch house uh on a kind of a quiet dead end street next to a big wide open field
[speaker001:] um-hum um
[speaker002:] but we're two blocks from everything you need including a small mall
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[speaker002:] and lots of businesses within walking distance but uh
[speaker001:] um-hum your city is a big city
[speaker002:] Austin's about a million people
[speaker001:] oh I guess it is big
[speaker002:] so it's it's it's it's it's a nice town it's real kind of a laid back place and uh kind of an environmentally conscious city
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum well my I have also have a four bedroom house uh we have three bathrooms two upstairs and one downstairs which makes it nice because um it's right off the garage so when Gene's working on his cars he can come in and take a shower without going through the rest of the house and then um I have a it's in a small city of like um eight thousand people and I don't know if you've heard of Modesto that's the closest big city
[speaker002:] I've heard of it I've never been there
[speaker001:] yeah yeah and it's on a cul-de-sac um which makes it nice because there's no through traffic you know about all the cars that come in here are people that just live right in here and uh
[speaker002:] yeah I like that feature about where we live that was one of the reasons we bought this house is because there's only six street six houses on the on the street so
[speaker001:] yeah it makes a lot nicer space I say I imagine you have little kids right
[speaker002:] no no not at all I have uh one kid and he's twenty almost twenty one
[speaker001:] oh okay well I have one also but he's he'll be thirty seven in uh February so but anyhow I have lots of little neighbor kids and they all love me and I just just worship them they can come in my house I have candy for them and cookies for them you know so I'm just like their aunt Rosy
[speaker002:] uh we still have there are actually no kids right in the immediate neighborhood but uh we just moved here about two years ago and we still have kids from the old neighborhood which is only a few blocks they come to visit they expect brownies
[speaker001:] um-hum oh yeah it's
[speaker002:] yeah they'll they'll stay till you bake a bunch but uh
[speaker001:] but anyhow as far as decorating my house and everything too I've uh stenciled uh practically in every room in my house which um it looked like it would be very hard to do but it ended up being really easy and it just really just makes the rooms you know I stenciled right above the right below the ceiling line on the walls like it looks something like a wallpaper border but it's actually is a stencil
[speaker002:] yeah right my wife and I've never tried any stenciling uh we've always thought we she wanted to anyway
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[speaker002:] uh somehow I feel like this particular house doesn't call for stenciling we've done some wallpapering and
[speaker001:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] uh my wife really likes to paint different colors and things so
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] that seems to be I think she ought to be a paint expert she's just in the wrong career field but uh we watch This Old House faithfully on Saturdays and do all of our own uh decorating work and repair work around the house and yard work
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] sometimes it's
[speaker001:] well you can't afford to have it done you know plus it's fun I enjoy you know going out and working in the yard and
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] you know just doing everything decorating the house up and changing it in fact I just bought a a large bird cage I had seen in magazines how they were decorating them that not that I want a bird I don't want a bird but I have decorated it up with flowers and I got a little nest in there that looks like it's got two little birds in there and I've got some dolls sitting in there it looks really really cute
[speaker002:] yeah my wife just remodeled since Christmas she's remodeled our bedroom with all new sheets comforters things like that and paint and she did a wallpaper border
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[speaker002:] new drapes uh looks it's just a whole different different atmosphere in there looks kind of like I like to hang out in there now during the daytime
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum yeah it's kind of fun to change too isn't it
[speaker002:] it's just yeah she picked a for the walls she picked a fudgesicle color
[speaker001:] fudgesicle color no
[speaker002:] yeah which well I thought well I don't know if this' ll work but when she finished it really looked good
[speaker001:] yeah it probably goes with a lot of different colors too
[speaker002:] yeah I don't think she meant for it to go with anything other than just fudgesicle walls and the ends the white trim
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um just to give it a little bit different look than what it's always been or been lately anyway so
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum well you are the first man that I've talked to
[speaker002:] really yeah
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