How is it one transitions smoothly from this fantasy world… To this reality? After two weeks of nice restaurants, lush landscapes, maids (and moms!) cleaning up after us, and no alarm clocks, we weren’t sure we wanted to come back. But we missed the dogs, and the house, and our quiet little street. It felt […]

While I’ve been too doped up on prednisone and bennadryl to think straight, Teague has managed to be very productive. Yesterday he started putting up plywood sheets, which we’ll be attaching the clapboard to. Almost looks like a real room! His energy and talent never ceases to amaze me. ;)

A few weeks ago, I got this undeniable urge to give our living room some love. It’s the room we spend most of our free time in, but we’ve spent very little time fixing it up. It wasn’t a quick-fix room, so it just got ignored. The huge bulging cracks and holes were artfully hid […]

I’m sure you’re getting bored with my little progress reports on the kitchen, but, well, tough nuggies. Ain’t it purdy? I’ve outlined, in sloppy red Photoshop ink, where the openings for the french doors and a window will be. We’re doing a matching window on the other wall, too. We ended up getting plain vinyl […]

We can get rid of one of our little progress tracker bars, because all of the demolition work on the back of the house has finally been completed! The dumpster was a very worthwhile expense; we filled it twice, and if we had any more room in there I’m sure I could have found more […]

is now lying upside down in our back lawn. Teague is pretty sure the neighbors watched with bated breath while he pushed and pulled and cut and chopped, hoping the whole house didn’t collapse on top of him. As you can tell by the photo, he put in another LONG but productive day: It’s quite […]

This handsome, extremely dirty guy has a proud look on his face because he’s pointing out his latest work – the framing for the back wall of the kitchen. It’s so exciting seeing where the new wall and doors will be! Teague and Don (his father) were out there like little worker bees the other […]

When we decided on french doors for the back wall of the kitchen, we went to Home Depot to check out their stock. I looked online at all the likely places, and found a few I liked in our price range. But none I LOVED. Nothing that would really look right staring back at me […]

Our back lawn is very big and very nice, but it’s lacking something….. trees. Our neighbors on either side have lots of trees (you can see some of them in the photo, flaking our lawn) and we have very few. That’s because the previous owners cut them all down. Perhaps to avoid raking? Since we […]

Our kitchen extension project is moving along well thus far. No big snags, other than a few very soggy days. April in Upstate NY is extremely rainy. Although, this past week was beautiful and yesterday I actually broke a sweat while outside in a t-shirt! (I was raking leaves, but still…) The drainage system is […]