posted by Kristin | filed under History, Family | 7 Comments

As a Father’s Day gift for my dad, I spent weekend before last wrangling the information I’ve gathered about our family for the past few years into what I hoped would be a cohesive, easy-to-view family tree.
I found a large parchment-like family tree template with room for up to nine generations of names, dates […]

posted by Kristin | filed under Grumpy Bear | 3 Comments

No, I haven’t been on vacation, unless you count my extended trip to Lazytown. This was the first time in the two and a half years since I started this blog that I could muster no interest at all in writing on it.
It doesn’t help that we’ve done absolutely no work on the house […]

posted by Kristin | filed under Ooh, Pretty! | 2 Comments

This weekend we rolled up the dining room carpet, swept and mopped the heart pine floor, and laid down the new rug.
It looks much better - the nearly 2-year-old orangey-brown paint stains on the tan carpet were beginning to look questionable, even to me - and you can see more of the pretty wood […]

posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw, Exterior | 4 Comments

Most times, a dead tree falling on one’s power line and ripping the electrical box off the house is not considered lucky. This was a special case.
The tree in question stood beside our driveway, its dead branches mingling with the power line. Since we’ve owned the property, the tree has only grown more dead, […]

posted by Kristin | filed under Auction, Shopping Disease | 6 Comments

I’m a bargain hunter with low impulse control. So when I enter the auction house in Moundville, a neon sign flashes in my head - “Warning, turn back!” - and then I ignore it and proceed to spend billions of dollars (I described the auction experience in the post eBay: The Mayberry version).
I haven’t […]

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