Lynn Has a New House

Lynn has worked her magic and built a new 3-bedroom house in Mueller, a great neighborhood right next to downtown. She's even overlooking a neighborhood park. She's on a corner lot, so her side porch faces the street as well as her front porch. The park across the street has a playground, basketball court, swimming pool and a big field for Cicero to romp around in. Here's the front view of the house with her recycling bin on full display.

Speaking of the blue bin, Austin has an incredible recycling program. Everything goes into this one enormous bin. Paper, plastic (all 7 kinds), glass, cardboard, paperboard, metal -- it all gets tossed into this amazing blue bin and whisked away to be sorted and reprocessed into wonderful new stuff. We recycle so much of our trash now that we hardly produce half the trash that we used to. It's amazing.

There's no back yard, so the small yard you see in front and the fenced area on the side are pretty much it for personal lawn care. She doesn't mind, though, since she's not a yard-work kind of girl. I think her favorite part of the house must be her custom shower, which is family-sized with two shower heads and a bench to sit down on. My favorite part is the kitchen, which is huge and beautiful. Lynn doesn't cook very much, so it will probably remain pristine for quite some time. I wouldn't mind doing a little cooking there, though, and I'm hoping we get a chance to have a housewarming party for her soon.