Joanie's Blog: Extremely Wonderful

More Extreme Makeover: Home Edition pictures from last week.

This was our first shot of the house when we pulled up on Saturday. Someone with Stylecraft Homes, the builder, said it took 106 hours to build. Not sure if that is after the slab is laid or not...but it is amazing either way. The house fit so nicely into that setting out there. Nice ranch style home. PERFECT!

Some of NationsRent's equipment that they were beginning to haul away. They were really a huge donor for this makeover. It was neat being part of that. We were really treated like someone special because of it.

Putting the final touches on. This was about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. They were still taking some furniture and decorations into the house. We got to walk everywhere but inside the house. It's amazing where you can go and what you can do if you just act like you know what you are doing. Kelly's NationsRent shirt and hat got us everywhere anyway, but I was all puffed up acting important....HA...nothing could be further from the truth!

Fuzzy closeup of Ty. You take your life in your hands in that part of Texas when you make the Hook-Em-Horns sign. I risked it later anyhow!

Here's a shot from the south-ish end of the house. Behind the house, you can see a small red barn. Then right behind that are the dog kennels and then beyond that is the new barn.

Inside the little red barn - I guess this was the kitty house. Look at all the pet goodies. I didn't see any of the kitties back yet. They probably couldn't have handled the stress anyway. This was just one side of that barn. The other side was equally loaded. There was even a pet tag maker in there - about the size of a video game unit you'd find at Fuddrucker's or other place like that. It was amazing. There was a fork lift busily unloading about 4-5 pallets (or more, maybe) of Purina dog chow. There wasn't even room to store all of that food!

Here are the kennels behind the red barn. I think all of the puppies were back. Lots and lots of dogs. I think there were pins/houses for about 25 dogs.

These are the dog runs/play yards for the pups. Nice fire hydrants!

Behind the kennels/dog runs was the new barn. Apparently these folks have rescued about 26 horses...though one of them is a zorse. We met their neighbors from the ranches across the street. One of the men had taken care of 18 horses and the zorse while the family was on vacation.