Porch
We had a very tiny screened in porch in the house I grew up in. VERY TINY. On that porch there was a gurney. What? You didn’t have gurneys in your home? You much not have had a Dad who was a biomedical engineer at a hospital then. Because he had access to the best “trash” piles ever. We had 3 old-school, all mechanical, gurneys in our home. One was on the porch. And... Read More
One of the few perks of having a kid still in diapers
When we first bought the house, this is what the view from the back porch looked like. We both really liked the idea of a wooded back yard. There are so many cookie-cutter neighborhoods being built here, with tiny young trees, a yard with REAL trees and REAL shade appealed to us. Unfortunately, the area around the play structure was a little too wooded and there was poison ivy... Read More
If These Walls Could Speak
When we were first looking at this house we wondered the same thing all potential homebuyers wonder…Why did they move? It turns out, that was an easy question to get answered: After 10 years the previous family had grown out of the house. This house? Who can grown OUT of THIS house? It’s almost three times the size of the house I grew up in! Turns out…they had... Read More
Normal.
This kid is SOOO happy he doesn’t have to entertain himself in an empty house anymore. Between the new house and the old house I’ve painted somewhere between 1200 and 1500 square feet of rooms this summer. I’ve gone through over 20 gallons of paint and endless rollers and sheets of plastic. I’ve used an entire tube of caulk and installed 2 light fixtures... Read More
My Sitting Room
(Oops! I have no idea why comments were off before. They’re back on!) I mentioned back when we were trying to prep our house for market, that we were taking down personal photos and I was finally framing some of my “real” photography. Of course, we gave up on trying to prep the house while still in it, but I was determined to hang some of the framed photography... Read More
