We received our tax refund on Friday. Because Steve is a student, we get a pretty substantial tax refund each year. It’s not often that we get a chunk of money all at once, so we try to use tax refund time to make any […]

It’s the last weekend of January, so it’s time to check in and see how the 2016 resolutions are going. I feel that I achieved about a 95 out of 100 this past week for my daily resolutions. My daily practices are starting to become […]

Hello, all! It’s time again for another installment of “Hey! The Dryer’s Not Working!” In this episode, the dryer sneakily gave every appearance of drying our clothes, tumbling happily and making heavy, thumpy dryer noises. Alas, when the end-of-cycle beep sounded and we opened the […]

I am a planner. I love to plan. When I am making plans for something (such as now with the rose garden), I am completely single-minded. I can’t think or talk about anything else. I know that it drives my family crazy. On this project, […]

I have been spending the last few weeks exhaustively researching roses, trying to select the varieties for our new front roses beds. I am particularly fond of the look of English roses, such as those hybridized by David Austin, and Old Garden Roses, such as […]

I was able to work from home twice this week, first on Wednesday and again on Friday. With the hectic schedule I have recently had at work, working from home was a welcome respite. I was able to get quite a bit of work done […]