One of the first major projects we had to do when we got this house was get the roof replaced. As long-time readers may recall, the corner in the kitchen was a veritable fountain as snow melted off during our first winter in the house. Not content to let that one slide, we got […]
Filed under: Homeownership on July 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
About two months ago, some new neighbors moved into a house just a few doors away from us. Like a lot of families, they brought pets with them. Unlike a lot of families, those pets were just under a dozen chickens including a rooster. No big deal, I thought. How noisy can chickens be?
Shauna was […]
Filed under: Homeownership, Life on May 29th, 2008 | 17 Comments »
About once a month during the spring, summer and fall, Rocky Mountain Power sends us a letter asking us to participate in their Cool Keeper program. The idea is that they hook a little box up to your air conditioner so that they can shut it off for short periods of time during peak usage. […]
Filed under: Homeownership, Tender Lumplings on April 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I decided to try my hand at making a roast chicken tonight. Yes, it's true: I had never really roasted a whole chicken before. I usually took the lazy route to buy one of those grocery store birds in the plastic packaging, but not tonight.
The chicken itself turned out really good. I used Alton Brown's […]
Filed under: Homeownership, Food, Life on October 23rd, 2007 | 10 Comments »
For quite some time now, we've been using a pretty ghetto vacuum cleaner. I picked it up about 6-7 years ago when I first moved out and it's since followed me through 5 dwellings and getting married. It's been on its last legs for some time: Annabelle did a "great" job of destroying all of […]
Filed under: Homeownership, Frugal Living on October 14th, 2007 | 9 Comments »
A little under three weeks ago, the ancient relic that was our refrigerator started showing some early warning signs of death. It started with things kept in there not feeling quite as cool as they should. Before long, we were keeping trays of ice cubes on the bottom shelf to try and keep our food […]
Filed under: Homeownership on October 11th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You Suck.
I mean, seriously. Have you guys ever seen a measuring tape, a level or a square? Is it really that hard to ensure that cabinets hung next to each other are at the same height? Is it too much to ask that a piece of drywall not bow inwards at odd angles? Is it […]
Filed under: Rants, Homeownership on September 8th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
We're not done yet. It's taking forever and we still don't have the ability to use the stove/oven or sink. But we just dropped the sink in tonight and doesn't it look so pretty with the counter top? My neighbor, Rick, was over tonight helping and described the sink as "hot". I'm not sure I've […]
Filed under: Homeownership, Pictures on August 27th, 2007 | 11 Comments »
The trip to Home Despot is often enough to make me drag my heels for weeks on basic home improvement tasks. It's usually too crowded, nobody useful works there, nothing is labeled. I suppose if you're a elbow-throwing contractor that knows what he's looking for, that might not be so bad. For a neophyte like […]
Filed under: Homeownership, Life on August 22nd, 2007 | 5 Comments »
So… many more pieces of counter just spontaneously fell off . And then the counter turned into the giant scab on your arm that you just can't leave alone. I picked at it and picked at it… until this happened:
I didn't really mean to do it. It just happened. In the midst of the demolition […]
Filed under: Rants, Homeownership, Pictures, Life on August 18th, 2007 | 7 Comments »
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