A couple weeks ago I enabled anonymous comments so you could comment on each post. Since that time, a couple people have told me they coul...

You may remember a certain member of my household has been having trouble with the squirrels at her feeders. Well, the squirrels have won t...

With any luck, we're rounding the corner on the "initial" projects. One of the cabinets in our kitchen is essentially worthles...

Phase three of the Kitchen upgrade is complete. We upgraded from a plain-jane Magic Chef oven to a KitchenAid convenction oven. The good p...

Last weekend we picked up a couple bushes that Valerie's sister was holding for us. We had the perfect place for them in the front of t...

The new Cooktop went in relatively easy. We replaced this older Magic Chef unit with a five burner Jenn-Air unit. We ended up with the Je...

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Why in a kitchen of dark granite countertops and black appliances someone decided a beige refrigerator would look nice, but who knows what t...

We must be living in the country, because we have 3 woodchucks who can be seen around the house at different times of the day. You would thi...

Valerie has had a 16 year battle with the squirrels pillaging her bird food. She has tried all sorts of devices to keep the pests off her f...

The first couple times I put the mower away, I noticed something blue and shiny buried in the ground. Both times I had other things to do, ...

The pair of mallards that visited us for a few days last week are back. While working in the yard this morning, there was a splash in the w...

One morning we looked out at the pond and saw a pair of Mallard ducks floating in the water. We thought the algae might keep them away, but...

I have turned on commenting for anonymous users for now. Click on "Comments" at the bottom of the post and a new page will come u...

Early this morning, while working out on the deck, I heard a bird screeching and looked up to see a hawk in the trees. After a few minutes, ...

If you're ever tempted to paint your electrical outlets, resist the temptation. When you have to take the wall plate off, it can also p...

One week to go before we move in. The grass is starting to come in, albeit somewhat spotty. The house is really starting to look like ours....

Our old place was out in the country. Way out. We used to have daily sightings of all sorts of wild life; birds, squirrels and associated ...

One of the downsides of finishing your hardwood floors is there is a lot of dust. Everywhere. Tonight, we decided to clean the baseboard he...

The hardwood floors are finally done. The process took 5 days from start to finish and as you can see from the pictures above, they look be...