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 […]

This post was originally published March 26, 2014. Though I have not posted in a month, it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy! As will soon become apparent … After weighing the various outstanding projects, and taking into consideration the weather, which has not […]

This post was originally published Feburary 24, 2014. In a home in the ‘burbs, there lived a hobbit … um … a family … I recently spent a week at home in bed with the flu.  Any time that I spend that much time in […]