If you’re wondering where the heck I am, the answer is watching Harry Potter, duh.  My good friend E and I– pictured above recreating a wand fight with sparklers and…

It doesn’t matter if you’re using lumber and drywall, or PHP and CSS… when you’re renovating something it involves a lot of decisions, some moments of panic, and a good…

I snapped this picture out of our front door last weekend, just minutes before an electric pole was knocked down across our street—bringing down with it our ability to turn…

You may remember that twelve weeks ago, we set a move-in date for March. Tomorrow is the last day of March, and yet the tub still resides in my bedroom…

Last weekend I got a call from my cousin. “There’s been a fire.” As someone who once walked into her house to find a waterfall flowing from the second floor…

You know what I did with that wicked looking tool I fell in love with posted a picture of last week? I used it to make a rustic header for…

Wednesday night I was feeling just slightly overwhelmed by the number of things piling up on my plate, and what I really needed was to have a couple of awesomely…

It’s possible that I almost had a minor breakdown when we had to choose the colors and patterns for the concrete that surrounds almost half of our house. Because the…

This is the part of the season where I’d like to say thank you for a few people who helped me stick my tongue out at MysteryMan and say, “See?…

The donkeys are getting used to that cold white stuff on the ground, and they are also getting used to us dressing them up for every possible holiday. What? They…

For a long time I went around saying (very confidently) “oh, yeah, we’re putting in a geothermal system,” which lasted right up until some person asked me what the hell…

This is not the pretty oft-photographed view of our property. This is the proverbial closet that we shove all of our crap into, which in this case means miscellaneous wood,…

So last week Kelly left a comment here saying, I wish you’d get a facebook page, so I know when you’ve posted a new one. This blog has become one…