Quaint details of our home in Paradise

This is by far the most unique aspect of the house. This is the window of the half bath that is located just inside the front door. When you are at the front door this window is just to your right. What you can not see clearly is that this window does not have any glass; it only has a screen to keep out the bugs. Therefore privacy is not a strong feature of this bathroom. When you are taking care of business in the loo everyone and anyone who comes to the door can hear and/or smell you. It makes for some rather awkward moments. Quaint, don't you think!

The little crank at the bottom corner is the super cool way we open our quaint windows. I actually like this feature of the house except that it takes so much time to open and close the windows because you have to do each side separately. And one side has to be done before the other or it will not close properly.

When we first arrived here I was completely grossed out by the showers so I promptly replaced the shower heads with new, multi spray heads. The showers have been a source of much frustration since we moved in. For several months we either had no hot water or the water would switch from super hot to freezing without notice. This became such a problem that the landlord sent over several plumbers and even replaced our water heater. Finally after almost a year we just couldn't take it anymore so we headed over to the local Do It Center to purchase new shower heads in hopes of fixing whatever problem we were having. While examining the shower heads we read that if you have low water pressure the heads may not work and you would need to remove the low flow valve that environmental wackos had mandated be put in shower heads to reduce water usage. We were unable to remove the value so we removed the whole shower head and now water pours out like Niagara Falls. It's great!! Another worthless "Green" idea down the drain.
Unfortunately Kalie cleaned her room a several days before I took this photo so you have to imagine a pile of these little brown things about an inch high. These are piles of termite leftovers that are all over our house. We are literally being eaten alive from the inside out and the proof is everywhere. But remember all quaint old houses have their quirks. Our quirks are just ingesting our home and leaving piles of excrement. OK I don't think it is really excrement but it's something gross. They also leave their babies crawling around Kalie's bed which is not so quaint either. She is sleeping in Dalton's room at the moment waiting for the boys to remember to exterminate her room.