Some of you who have been around for a while might remember how we had to tear down our deck last summer. The city wanted us to either build a new deck, or remove the old deck and board up the door due to the wood being rotted, and the stairs and sidewalls not being up to code. We knew… Read More
My ‘Green Thumb’ Better Start Growing
I’ve never been able to grow anything worthwhile – but back when I was in High School and talking to the life coaches in Minneapolis about my career path – I thought it would have been really awesome to go to school to become a horticulturist. Well, That following summer I tried to grow a garden, but had no success… Read More
Getting a New Floor!
I’ve written several times about my floor in my kitchen. And I’m going to write several more times! We moved into this house a little over a year ago – it was a foreclosed home, but the bank had obviously done a little fixing up before putting it on the market. But they did as much as they could for… Read More
What’s on my Christmas List?
I’ve been having a really tough time this year trying to figure out what *I* want for Christmas. I find myself more entertained by the toy section in the newspaper ads than I am by the ‘adult’ categories. I was *forced* to put together a list for my family members… so Here’s what I came up with. I had a… Read More
Sound Asleep Curtains
When we moved from our tiny condo to this house – we went from having all of our … 3… windows covered – to ONLY having 3 windows covered. It was one of the first things on my ‘to-do’ list… because Andrew was up at the crack of dawn every morning. I had someone come and measure and price out… Read More