I won’t be posting much this week – I’m too busy hiking, window shopping, and sleeping in. We’re up in Bar Harbor – Teague is here to put a screen room on his parent’s cottage, and I tagged along for the views. Right now, I’m listening to drilling behind me – so even though I’m […]

Gary’s latest post over at This Old Crack House reminded me that Antique Show season is upon us. I have always loved garage sales, thrift stores, and flea markets, so antique shows leave me squealing with glee and wishing I had won the lottery or been born a Hilton. Ok, maybe not a Hilton – […]

Back in January, we got all exicted about a fancy Pegasus kitchen faucet we bought at Home Depot – only to find that the spayer handle leaked, persistantly, even with replacement parts. You can read about the debacle here. With budget problems mounting, we decided to leave well enough alone for a while and put […]

We are officially DONE sanding floors downstairs. It was the longest weekend in recent memory – the only other time I remember working this hard was when we were laying tile floor in preparation for our open house. We worked straight through the weekend, except for a quick run to the local townie bar to […]

Yeah, so you know that easy “repaint the dining room” project I mentioned a few days ago? Well, like any fixer-upper undertaking it tripled in size, turning into “repaint the dining room, twice, strip and sand all of the beadboard, and stain it to match the floor”. It added about 3.5 million hours to our […]

By now you’ve probably noticed our new look. Pretty snazzy, right? I thought it was time to clean up and simplify. What you might not notice is that the software running our blog has changed. After building a few sites in WordPress, I fell in love and decided to wave bye-bye to MT. Non-techies won’t […]

Just a note to let you know the site is in transition – I’m moving it from MovableType to WordPress, so if you see some bugs, missing images, or other sloppiness don’t worry…….. it should be back to normal momentarily!

We don’t have a “garage”, exactly – we have two small tool sheds instead. Teague keeps them pretty neat, but with all the goodies we’ve got in there it’s sometimes hard to find a spot for stuff. What we really need is a 2-car garage and a heated workshop. Until we win the lotto, we’ll […]

Once again, we spent the weekend painting. What can I say – we like color. Alot. This time, we took the dining room out of the pink and into something a little more natural. After much speculation and a few heated arguments, we decided to paint the top half of the room with Sherwin William’s […]

Well, it’s official – we’re waiting until next weekend to start sanding down the other 2 floors. I can’t say I’m excited about pushing our timeline back a week, since it means our house will be ripped apart that much longer, but I suppose we’ll survive. The living room floor’s last coat of varnish is […]