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Monday, April 25th, 2011
posted by K | filed under Debates, Wishing | 7 Comments
I’ve been reading over some of my old renovation-related blog entries, since I’ve had renovation on the brain again lately, and realized I barely remember half this stuff. It’s all a blur now … well, except bashing out the tile and concrete floor in the master bath – that I will remember till my dying [...]
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
posted by K | filed under Exterior, Pets | 2 Comments
This morning the dogs woke me up before my allotted 10 hours of sleep were up (hey, I’m pregnant, and I have a cold) with a crazy barking fit outside. I banged on the window, which sometimes snaps Stanley out of a barking spree, but he just kept going. And going. And going. So finally, [...]
Monday, July 13th, 2009
posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Ooh, Pretty!, Paint, Simplify | 6 Comments
My official painting T-shirt is back out of retirement! The last time I busted it out was seven months ago, when we were preparing for our home study, and I decided impulsively to paint the hall bathroom with a pint of dark green paint we had lying around. Turned out there wasn’t enough paint to [...]
Friday, March 13th, 2009
posted by K | filed under Bedrooms, Simplify | 2 Comments
This has been a week of improvements – some small and easy, some large and complicated, all making life just a little better. 1. The 50-gallon water heater. We wanted a tankless, but that didn’t work out, so we bought a 50-gallon water heater to replace our broken 40-gallon one. This one is bigger but [...]
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
posted by K | filed under Demolition, Misfortune | 3 Comments
Okay, so our flood wasn’t quite of biblical proportions. But our water heater did spring a leak and slowly, stealthily soak the subfloor in the hall, ruining it and forcing us to at last make a decision about the flooring in that area. Before we got to that point, it took several clues for us [...]
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
posted by K | filed under Adoption, Bedrooms, Nursery, Shopping Disease | 8 Comments
One evening not so long ago, two gigantic cardboard boxes arrived on our doorstep. We sprang eagerly from our seats on the couch, because we’d been anticipating the arrival of the crib and changing table from the faraway land of Tar-jay. D turned on XM satellite radio’s 60′s on 6 channel, and we set to [...]