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…

Ladies, in most cases, I don’t presume to tell you what to do. Yes, I think all of you should own multiple tools and stop nagging the dudes in your…

You know I never shy away from a tiling challenge, so I jumped in hammer first when it came to building the walk-in shower for our new master bathroom. MysteryMan…

I mentioned sometime last week that there was definitely not enough excitement going on around here, and that’s because I didn’t know I was going to all but finish the…

I wouldn’t want you to think that fall off the ladder affected my brain. I still have to be threatened with bodily harm before I willingly run the vacuum cleaner,…