The problem:
We’re paying out the nose to heat twice as much house as we need. We bought a big house (~2,200 sq. ft.) because we know we want a family someday, and we don’t want to have to skip from house to house as our family grows. There was some strategy to the decision. But […]

On my drive in to work yesterday, while quietly freaking out about the utter brokeness of our roof (arguably the most important part of any house), I was once again struck by how lucky I am to have married a construction worker.
I have this thought about once a week, whenever some new problem arises. In […]

We’ve been having unseasonably warm weather for the past week. Yesterday, it was once again 65 and sunny. As I scraped away at wallpaper upstairs (my motivation is back with a vengeance), I remember thinking “we’re going to pay for all this nice weather”. I really wish I had been wrong about that.
At about 5:30pm, […]