This post was originally published September 11, 2014. I haven’t posted in so long, because I was out enjoying one of the nicest summers we have had in a long while. Usually the summers in this area are hot and humid, and after the 4th […]

This post was originally published May 28, 2014. Before we could start painting the house, we had a couple of other emergency tasks that arose: the water heater stopped working, the dryer stopped working, and water from the bath tub supply line in the upstairs […]

This post was originally published May 27, 2014. As I mentioned in my very first post, we need to paint our house. Once upon a time, it was a lovely dark teal blue. It has since faded to a sort of teal-ish pea green color. […]

This post was originally published May 16, 2014. Our new garden beds! We decided to expand our garden beds this year. Here are last year’s garden beds as they looked this past winter: We built these beds three years ago. The boards had deteriorated to […]

This post was originally published May 4, 2014. If you have been following my story, you know that my new mantra is “Identify issues and find ways to address them”. With this in mind, I decided that I would start with a small, simple job […]

This post was originally published April 27, 2014. With the bathroom now a cheerful shade of blue, we knew that we wanted to continue to improve it, but we were unsure just what we wanted to do. Flash forward a few years (yes, years) to […]