After a year in the house, we are finally painting our bedroom. It seems a little silly to wait that long to make our sleeping quarters pretty, but we had so many social events planned that required us to make the common spaces more of a priority. Needless to say, I am ecstatic to beautify [...]
Archive > July 2010
Backyard Patio
This is the current state of one side of our backyard. Basically, its a big mud pit. This is a general idea of what we want it to become. A concrete patio bordered with river rocks. The seams in between the concrete pavers will be planted with low creeping Thyme ground cover or something similar. [...]
Feeling guilty?
I opened the front door and a delivery man handed me a bouquet of flowers in smiley faced plastic wrap. The card was signed by our window vendors apologizing for the order delay. Perhaps I was a little too vocal on the phone with the sales rep. They must of realized how upset I was [...]
Hog meet Lawn
Poor Nate has been trying to fix two broken gas lawn mowers for weeks. We inherited them and hoped we could save some money by fixing one up. Unfortunately it wasn’t that easy and at some point you have to realize the cost of a new mower out ways the time and energy fixing up [...]
