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One more project finished!
Once upon a time, I would not have dreamed of breaking down the project of this house down into individual projects in terms of planning. I’d have gone at it whole hog, as the saying goes, and would...
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My garden experiments
Our yard didn’t have an established “garden spot.” We could see where one had been, once upon a time, long, long ago. Now, that area was thick and lush grass, as well as low enough that water pooled...
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One step forward, two steps back?
Another week…and not a lot accomplished. I’m not going to beat myself up over it. We have accomplished some things, regardless of their magnitude. So what did we get done? Besides the usual “have-to”...
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We owe, we owe, and more work to go
Ahh the joys of home ownership… We had an electrical problem. So, we went off to Lowe’s today. Granted, the first people we encountered as helpful staff were telling us where the boxes of sanity were...
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Dreaming?
We all look around our houses and dream. It’s our nature. Dreaming is good for us, it’s inspiring. So what do you dream about? Have you ever sat down and wondered what you would do with your house...
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The home office
The room we have decided will be our home office is officially a bedroom, but I’d hate to use it as such. It has a door that opens to the carport, which means that we often have traffic through that...
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Paint Prep in the Office
Okay, so we have one coat of the wall paint on, and the ceiling has been painted. For whatever reason, we had not primed the window frame when the other portions of the room were primed, nor did we do...
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Hot, hot, hot, it’s hot everywhere!
It’s not a good day. The mercury in the thermometer is soaring, but my spirits aren’t. A couple of weeks ago, I blew out a circuit when I overloaded it. Not a good thing, and requiring some repair....
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Green Acres, revisited?
Remember Green Acres? (It’s dating me, most likely!) If you don’t…you can watch it on Hulu. Watch the first season–it might be a bit hokey, but at the same time, it does poke fun at the idea of...
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The doors, 1948-style not rock band
The doors… In 1948, they were solid wood. None of this hollow core stuff. On the flip side, standardization hadn’t quite struck nationwide yet. They also could vary a bit more since a solid wood...
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Fire Ants & non-toxic semi-control
I met the fire ants soon after moving to the South. They are wicked, and when I get bit, it’s almost always on the feet or hands. It also takes weeks for the bites to heal, after they first blister,...
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Paint disaster or Making Assumptions
We’ve had a minor disaster. Not irreparable, more aggravating and humorous than disastrous actually. We have to work on painting in small bites, when one of us feels up to the challenge. So…one of...
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Foul weather & old houses
We have a natural gas floor furnace to heat our house. Essentially, it is nothing more than a burner below floor level that lets the heat rise up through a metal grate in the floor. Last year, we...
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DIY for the laundry
Everybody loves saving money. Most of us also like doing things that reduce our impact on the planet and environment too. When it really works, that’s when we get excited! My mother had been raving...
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Crappy situation?
We had been ignoring our bathroom. It worked, even if it was really truly ugly and in serious need of an update. We were struggling enough to cope with chronically ill family members, visiting...
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Energy Efficiency
We have always prided ourselves on being quite efficient about our power usage. Then, we recently had a jump in the bill. We tried a feature offered by our local electric company that would compare...
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