There’s a long history of me taking on a rather extensive home improvement project only to have it interrupted by a medical emergency of one kind or another. For example, there was the time we were in the middle of remodeling the basement in our prior home when Jill went into labor six weeks early […]

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The DW and I have always wanted a roll-top desk. For the style we wanted, anything new was out of the question. Since it wasn’t much of a priority we asked the DW’s parents to keep an eye out when they were at household and antique auctions for something that might go under the radar. […]

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After all the heat and humidity last week, a thunderstorm late Friday afternoon was very welcome. It had being raining hard for the last hour by the time I got home from work. I had just walked in the kitchen and was being mobbed by the girls – even Peanut scrambles as quickly as she […]

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The last update on the kitchen was over a month ago when I left the DW with two 5-gallon buckets catching water from the sink while we waited for the new counter-top to arrive. Luckily for her (actually, luckily for me) things were like that for less than a week – it was supposed to […]

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I’ve written before about the minor work we’ve been doing in the kitchen the last several months (here, here, and here) and the Fourth Of July weekend finally brought a major phase of the project to a close. It may be a record – and not one I’m proud of – for the slowest update […]

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Here’s something we haven’t done in a while – actually, it’s been over six months if you’re keeping track. For those of you who weren’t around back then (or those of you like me that simply can’t remember back that far), Flashback Friday highlighted some of the initial improvements we made to the house shortly […]

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I keep a little list in the back of my mind of things that would be nice to have but I really don’t need enough to go out and get. Yes, obviously boys will always be boys and the list includes some far-fetched things like a small bulldozer for shaping up the waterways that drain […]

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At the tail end of a post last week I included this picture… The glass on the right is a glass of water… so is the glass on the left… straight from the tap. To make a very long story somewhat shorter, early last week our well water became noticeably cloudy (the picture was taken […]

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OK… let’s see… the DW and I have slightly disappeared the last couple weeks. Just to dispel any rumors, we’re still here. We haven’t joined on as roadies for Sesame Street Live or hooked up with a traveling circus as the resident clown family in training… though the later might by fun for a few […]

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Way back in February I mentioned our plan for some improvements on the house in the upcoming months. It went roughly like this… we wanted to add some more insulation to the attic, but needed to put a new roof on first since there were a few small leaks that would ruin the insulation. Some […]

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