Nov 30, 2017 | Home and Garden, Home Improvements, What's Happening
One of the things we’ve been wanting since moving into the new house is a nice deck overlooking the backyard. We spend a lot of time outside during nice weather so we wanted a place that was spacious for us and any guests, overlooked the wooded backyard and...
Apr 7, 2017 | Home and Garden, What's Happening
Yesterday Jason and I finally made our decision for the kitchen remodel – we decided to go for the gusto and replace everything. At first, we were going to sand down and paint the original wood cabinets, however on closer inspection found that they were in a...
Mar 4, 2017 | Home and Garden, What's Happening
A couple of weeks ago we said goodbye to the 200-year-old, 140-foot tree in our front yard. Did we want to? Of course not! But, it was destroying the foundation of the house and once it was cut down, we found that it was actually rotting from the inside out. Do you...
Dec 26, 2016 | Home and Garden, What's Happening
Ooops, we did it again! We sold our home on 11 acres and purchased an old home on Main Street in a tiny rural town in Kentucky. The house was built in the early 1900’s (I’m still trying to track down history to find the actual build date) and is in need of...
Aug 20, 2013 | Home and Garden, What's Happening
Today we went over to the old house to dig up a couple of the banana plants that have been out back for many, many years, before we close on the sale of the house ( hopefully this week ). We got three of them – the one pictured here and another about the same...
Jul 14, 2013 | Crafts, Home and Garden
As promised, here are some better photos of the new craft room setup. Please ignore all the white blobs on the carpet – Giant Dawg is in shedding mode and he is just…everywhere. This is my scrapbooking, paper crafts, etc area viewed from the doorway: ...