[speaker001:] okay tell me about your home
[speaker002:] well it's an older home it was made back in the early sixties it's a pier beam house
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] got three bedrooms one bath and that just makes me scream
[speaker001:] that's pretty tough what area do you live in
[speaker002:] I live in Houston
[speaker001:] oh okay I see is that pretty typical for your area
[speaker002:] well for the neighborhood I'm in yeah this is one this is one of the more uh established neighborhoods
[speaker001:] it is uh-huh that sounds really interesting I live in a suburb of Dallas and um I live in the basic three bedroom two bath home so at least I have two bathrooms that's not so bad but uh it's pretty typical for the area as well um I've always been interested in older homes personally so it's I think you can end up you can end up doing more with them it seems like what is it what about uh yard space do you have lot of uh a big lot or anything like that
[speaker002:] well the whole the whole lot I'm sitting on is roughly half an acre
[speaker001:] oh I see
[speaker002:] well half about half of that about a quarter acre of that I've got a garden
[speaker001:] hum-um oh that's nice because I have just a like a very small you know those basic tract houses like that we have a very small yard and um I do have garden but it's it's extremely small but uh it seems like though for your area that's that's sort of different in a big city like that most houses I would think would be sort of like uh what we live in just a you know a basic tract house
[speaker002:] well in the um newer neighborhoods development communities that they've put together the houses are so close together if your neighbors having an argument you can hear it blow for blow
[speaker001:] yeah that's exactly right that's the way we are we have uh one thing that we really do enjoy is we have a hot tub in the back so we have we have quite a few parties and uh it seems like everyone that lives around us ends up you know hearing every conversation that goes on outside you know with everyone so uh that's true that's one thing that I don't enjoy about it is the houses are too close together but uh you know it's it's fine for now hopefully eventually we'll move into a larger home the only thing that I don't like also is that the the rooms are so small you know it's it's very difficult to arrange furniture and and things like that so are are the rooms in your house bigger since it's a a sixties home it seems like then that they built the rooms much larger is that true
[speaker002:] and they've got better closet space than most of the new houses that I've seen
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah that's really it that's a plus at least we do have uh like three walk-in closets here so that's that's maybe not so so typical but uh
[speaker002:] it helps a bunch
[speaker001:] yeah it really does except when you you know have to fill them up and then you get those Visa bills in and so anyway um anything else about the area about um you know that it compare can you can compare your house to anything around there
[speaker002:] most of the neighborhood I'm in is pretty typical this whole neighborhood was kind of built in between sixty and sixty five
[speaker001:] yeah so it's just it's just
[speaker002:] so everybody's got a usually a pretty good size yard I think I've got probably the biggest
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] if not the biggest yard I've got pretty close to it in the entire neighborhood
[speaker001:] yeah that's nice that is nice but you know too the only bad thing about that is then you have to keep up you know you have
[speaker002:] well that's
[speaker001:] the yard to deal with and
[speaker002:] I enjoy that though
[speaker001:] do you you must have more time than than I have I'm sitting out here right now we had this terrible rain and I'm looking at the yard and seeing how tall the grass has gotten and it seems like now that's that's I almost wish I was in an apartment or something you know
[speaker002:] praying for rain down here
[speaker001:] but uh yeah well um I don't know do we just terminate this or or do you have to talk for a a certain amount of time do you know
[speaker002:] no we can the after you go to I think its five somewhere between five and ten minutes they'll get a little master recording on here that
[speaker001:] okay okay well can you tell me anything else about the house are you working on it I mean do do people around that area seem to do a lot of renovation
[speaker002:] yeah this entire neighborhood everybody keeps the places up real nice
[speaker001:] yeah that's that's nice yeah the the town that I came from is uh is a uh older town and it's like the typical the typical homes there are like you know early nineteen hundreds late eighteen hundreds
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] and I renovated a house there and that was you know that was so much fun I mean there if you don't live in a house that's at least seventy five to hundred years old you know you're just you're just nobody practically and that was really it that was a good experience for me you learn a lot of discipline and and uh that was what considered typical for that area so uh it it's it was quite a change for me to come to a house like this now that's just you know a very square little box and you know there's not there's not a whole lot you can do with it but uh anyway
[speaker002:] living in the city living in the city has some advantages but given the choice I'm getting out
[speaker001:] yeah that's true oh really well I had lived in a small town for you know this this town was like less than ten thousand people and it was about sixty miles south of Dallas and I you know I didn't move out of there until I was you know twenty seven and out that was just you know so I I love the big city because you know I had lived in a rural area for for so long so I've enjoyed it but uh it can get it can get kind of tough it is like a rat race sometimes
[speaker002:] that's just something I'll never adapt to I don't I don't want to be a part of the rat race I want to be basically just kind of left alone if I want to if I want to sit around and mess mess with my garden I'll mess with my garden if I want to work in the flower beds fine
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah it sounds like you enjoy working outside as well I I really yeah I really do enjoy that I haven't planted anything yet or
[speaker002:] very much
[speaker001:] you know I usually have got flowers coming out the gazoo but I've I haven't done that yet I've had finals this week so uh
[speaker002:] uh oh
[speaker001:] you know I'm just kind of been trying to trying to uh stick in with that but uh since that's over with now maybe I can I can get this yard in shape do you do a lot of gardening
[speaker002:] uh landscaping more than the garden the gardening I've got my beans peas I've got some onions out
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker002:] tomatoes I'm not real sure what they're going to do this year
[speaker001:] I never have much luck with tomatoes I do I do plant a lot of beans because it seems like the the uh bugs get on them so easily and I have a real problem with anything pesticide like pesticides or anything like that so the only thing that I use is soapy water you know spray the plants because they say supposedly that will keep the bugs off them but uh I don't have luck with that on tomato plant so I hate to spray them with anything um what do you do do you have any tips you could give me
[speaker002:] um my favorite one is putting on the um tomato plant is to put uh seven dust
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] and that stuff has been around since the beginning of time and
[speaker001:] that's true that's true I've my dad is a farmer so you know I've heard him talk about that forever I guess it works but um you have to really wash your vegetables after that so it won't make you sick let's see what else do you do to your house
[speaker002:] well I've done some rewiring on it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] eventually I'm gonna have if if we stay here I'm gonna have to rewire the entire house
[speaker001:] oh really do you plan on uh like adding any rooms or you have enough space you could probably do that or is it
[speaker002:] I've talked well I've talked about adding at least one more room and definitely adding another bath on
[speaker001:] yeah I would think so if you only have one bathroom for three bedrooms that's that's tough that's really tough do you not like have a half bath
[speaker002:] not even a half bath
[speaker001:] yeah yeah that's that's rough the house that I used to live in had like one bath and a half and that was even just with two people that was a pain
[speaker002:] the only thing that saves it with the schedule I work and the schedule my wife works we're getting ready to go to work at different totally different times
[speaker001:] that's good
[speaker002:] so that it's not like we're tripping over each other in the morning trying to get ready
[speaker001:] really that that could account for a lot of marital problems I think you get to know each other very well if you have to share a bathroom
[speaker002:] yes it doesn't work if you're trying to shave and she's trying to put her eyeliner on and you're both fighting over the mirror
[speaker001:] no that's right it's it's not it does not make for a for a happy situation that's true well do you have any children
[speaker002:] got one
[speaker001:] one child and they enjoy they enjoy where they're living
[speaker002:] we'll he's nine months old now
[speaker001:] oh so he doesn't know right I guess he's a big help out in your garden right
[speaker002:] uh he he likes to dig around a little bit then his mother comes in and says how why did you let him play in the dirt like I said he was enjoying himself
[speaker001:] yeah  that's right it's healthy why not
[speaker002:] as long as he wasn't eating the dirt I wasn't to worry about it
[speaker001:] yeah nah it won't hurt them I I was a big dirt eater supposedly when I was a child and I turned out okay so don't worry about it just let him enjoy himself  so you think that you want to move away from the big city huh
[speaker002:] well that's what I've always I was raised up in a town that was about ten thousand people
[speaker001:] yeah so you're just the opposite from me you want to go back to that huh
[speaker002:] and then after you're getting married move ended up moving to Houston the Houston area
[speaker001:] yeah yeah so are you from Texas or you are
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] so it's not you know that's that's true Houston in itself is a pretty tough place you