Brooke here: My sister, who is heavily pregnant, called me a few weeks ago and said she had experienced a hormone meltdown while on the phone with our mother. She was stressing over how soon it was before the baby would come, and how she and her husband still hadn’t bought any of the essentials, […]
Brooke here. As promised, here is the rant about Homax “Tub and Tile,” which seems to have been taken off of the market since the time I purchased it. No surprise, really, considering that people actually want to use their bathrooms after they refinish them. When the renovation was begun, the bathroom looked a little […]
Brooke here: My apologies for the silence, but I needed a few weeks off. From blogging, not from home repair. Every so often there’s a swelling of arghwtfblechtothemartinimobile! that comes from chronicling various stages of destruction, and it’s best to not touch a keyboard during such moods. Case in point: we finished one larger project. […]
Brooke here: Remember this post about the Vestigial Lawn and the bits of pottery shrapnel I kept digging up? We still have no clue what this stuff is. The all-knowing Internet has provided options but no answers, and comments and emails from blog readers have not given any clear resolution to what these odd bits […]
To Whom it May Concern at Angie’s List:* Stop calling me. Stop calling me. Stop calling me. Listen, I appreciate how you’ve let me access your site for the past year, even though I only paid for six months. That’s very classy and I will definitely renew my subscription when […]
Brooke here: Thanksgiving has come and gone, leaving a wake of chores. We hold it here and the week before is constant cleaning, followed by a week of family, followed by another two days of cleaning. Brown and I spent yesterday on the couch, too tired to move except to scrounge the occasional scrap of […]
Brooke here. Guys, this post is all for you. For obvious and not-so-obvious reasons, Brown and I watch a lot of DIY Network. Obvious, as we’ve bought a home that is the quintessential “Before” shot, and not-so-obvious, as we have widely different tastes in programming and this is the only compromise that allows us to […]
Brooke here: Thanksgiving looms. Thanksgiving looms large. We had two major projects to finish before family arrives. The first was the small bathroom, and the second was the landing between the primary fence posts. The weather was lovely last week, so we flipped these and went after the landing first. Let me put up a […]
Brooke here. It’s raining and nasty and I can’t get back out under the Japanese maple, so this is another post about dogs. Zu has been with us for a year. He’s decidedly not a Rottweiler and is not quite a Doberman, and there’s something sort of Shepard-y about his face. He’s certainly a snugglet, […]
Brooke here. Three things: First, we have discovered that when the previous owners said they had installed “French drains,” they did not actually mean “French drains.” They meant “plastic pipes covered in rocks ‘n crap and dumped on top of the ground.” We could not for the life of us understand why we still had […]
Flying by night 