Category Archive: other stuff

Thinkin’ About My Doorbell, When Ya Gunna Ring It, When Ya Gunna Ring It?

Thinkin’ About My Doorbell, When Ya Gunna Ring It, When Ya Gunna Ring It?

NEW! NIPPLE-SHAPED! DOORBELL! 5 years of homeownership, and for only the first 2 months did our old doorbell work. 1 new transformer, new chime, and doorbell ...

 

The Belated Birthday Post

The Belated Birthday Post

There are at least 4 things I'm not real happy about today: 1. I still haven't written the Letters to My Daughter Months 11 & 12 2. ...

 

Going The Way of The Amish

Going The Way of The Amish

Only with less delicious pie-baking. We're rounding the corner of 48 hours of no power. This is probably the longest outage we've seen since moving to ...

 

Going Dormant?

Going Dormant?

It's bad. Really bad. Over ten calendar days since I've posted anything. I have so much to cover, but no time to broadcast this tsunami-size brain dump ...

 

Deck Project: 97% Complete

Deck Project: 97% Complete

I am officially going to move our bed and camp out on our Party Patio/Deck area, because this is FRIGGIN' AWESOME!  Who's ready for a ...

 

Compare And Contrast

Compare And Contrast

This is what our house looked like when we moved into it. Huge landscaping up front, ancient garage (that was actually falling down in ...

 

New House On The Block

New House On The Block

It's done. The painting of the house on Winthrop, that is. Or as we like to say "The Winthrop Manor". Now, finally, the old girl gets to look ...