Decking the Halls…for the very first time…

Deck the Halls with boughs of Holly….fa la la la la la la la la!  What’s a bough, anyway?  If you put it with ‘wow’, could it be a new Yuletide hip hop name?  Bough Wow?  I’m here all week, people…  Don’t forget to tip your waiters! We have been slowly but surely decorating our [...]

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Before & After Bliss: More Curb Appeal!

Finally a weekend at home and, of course, we spent it working around the house.  Our list got slightly shorter this weekend, though!  Here’s the update in the SAFE category!: SAFE: Buy and install (by ourselves, of course!) a new Hot Water Tank!  That should be fun! Buy and install a garage door opener (our [...]

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Before & After Bliss: Pillar of Strength

We’re back with yet *another* Labor Day weekend makeover!  Only this time we’ve moved from the back of the house to the front of the house!  It’s been mentioned before, but our house was previously a foreclosure with some….ahem….issues.  One of the most obvious problems was the very first thing that greeted you at the [...]

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Picket Fences

If you couldn’t tell from our previous posts (specifically this one), we spent a good deal of our Labor Day weekend LABOR-ING!  It all started with two (very heavy) visits to the hardware store: …a heckuva lot of rain…!! …one rented two-man post-hole digger… ….four muddy post-holes…. …four bags of concrete… ….four upright posts… ….three [...]

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Men, Men, Men, Men….

We had a muddy Labor Day weekend out here in Portland, Oregon.  Rain, rain, and more rain!  But we did manage to have some fun with the video camera while we were working around the house.  You can click here to check out J and his Dad having manly fun with a Post-Hole Digger! Whatever [...]

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