Brooke here. This is a brief post, no pictures. My parents are here and I have spent the last week in frantic clean-mode (why is it that I only notice the cobwebs when my parents or Brown’s mother is coming to visit? We’re talking Charlotte-on-amphetamines webs here, people. Our spiders aren’t subtle.). Last week it […]
Brooke here. This is the second bathroom remodeling post. Did you know that one of the recommended ways to remove a cast iron bathtub is with a sledgehammer? This is mainly a Hired Dudes post, as we did none of the demolition ourselves. We could have easily done all of this over a messy, angry […]
Brooke here: The hallway bathroom has been remodeled. It… Oh boy. Let’s start with how it originally looked when we first bought the house: Yeah, that’s a lot of yellow. It’s not a large bathroom, about 50 square feet, so the yellow was extra-concentrated. The bathroom came with a built-in pantry closet (door on the […]
Brooke here. When we had the trees removed, we also had the stumps ground down. We’re trying to stop the basement from flooding, and to do that we need to grade the front lawn, and to do that we need to bring in two dump trucks full of dirt, and to do that we need […]
Jan 5, 2013… I am reminded of an old post from 2011 I wrote when the tree nearly fell on our house. Almost as soon as I put it up, I remembered the Eleventh Commandment, where The Lord said THOU SHALT NOT DISPARAGE THY INSURANCE AGENT BEFORE THE CLAIM IS SETTLED. So I hid it. […]
Hey all, happy 2013. I know it’s been quiet around here. Lately, life has been very much all about the no. But the good part about a new year is the ability to shake off the bad and move forward, so let’s do that. And it’s not as though the home renovations stopped along with […]
Brooke here. I knew the recession was over when throwpillows started wussing out again… Actually, let’s back up and start this someplace else. Zu is the clinical definition of hot mess. He’s been doing quite well since Old Dog passed; we put Zu in a kennel before Cutter John was euthanized, and Brown left for […]
Brooke here: We now have a This. It has been a terrible couple of weeks over here, with family and dog issues dominating most of our daily shenanigans. We’ve been sneaking in some repairs whenever possible, and have finally hung the gates. We need to add the latch, the hinge hardware still needs some (very […]
Brooke here. Thanks mainly to medical science but in no small part to higher-quality pet foods, humans aren’t the only ones living longer. The average life expectancy for dogs is rocketing up; most dogs will live several years longer than they would have just a couple of decades ago. Which worked out great for me, […]
Brooke here. The hinges are in. Continuing the spirit of over-engineering the duck (quack) out of the fence, I found some black “heavy duty strap hinges” online. We purchased six; there are four 12″ hinges for the top and bottom, and two 5″ hinges for the center. I was rather grumpy with the shipping costs, […]
Flying by night 