With the end of Daylight Savings Time on  Sunday, the clocks get set back and we all get an extra hour of sleep. That is unless you live wit...

Steve has started to repair the sheetrock. The light fixtures are uninstalled and the curtains are down. Some furniture has been moved ups...

We switched the dogs to Hill's Science Diet d/d, which can only be purchased at the vet's office. We purchased an 18 lb bag and I ga...

The other day Danny's dog walker, Diane, posted a comment on our blog. I visited her website and there was a photo of our beautiful boy....

The stairwell has been painted. This is the last item that needed to be painted due to the renovation.

I was putting a frozen dinner into the oven and it slipped out of my hand. The dinner landed face down and the plastic covering the frozen v...

To everyone who is asking why our newly installed walls and ceilings are cracking, I have to say that we do not have a definitive answer. N...

  I was walking Cooper and Otis and we passed  a landscaping crew cleaning up leaves. This was the first time Coop saw a walk behind leaf b...

The mailman brought Otis and Cooper a very special gift - homemade cookies from Bobbi. Bobbi had originally adopted Otis in Maine, but could...

After  painting the built in cabinets, the dining room wall needed some touch up. As I was painting the wall, I noticed a hairline crack. I ...

I realized that my slippers would never survive if I left them on the floor. I put the slippers on a shelf in the closet and thought that wo...

The built in cabinet doors have been painted and installed. I think that the cabinets look nice and will be a focal point in the room. I w...

After Oti's acorn incident, I read online that acorns and oak leaves are poisonous to dogs. Since Otis did not swallow or chew the acor...

It's that time of year when the ticks start trying to find a warm place for the winter.  Every now and then we spot a tick on Cooper...

With the cabinets almost finished, I hoped that our work on the house would soon be finished. That is, until I noticed a crack in the formal...

This is our 1,000th blog post! When Jeff started Wilton Diaries back in 2006, I never imagined it would survive so long or that I would bec...

I was grilling on the deck and saw Otis pick something up and start to chew on it. I thought perhaps Oti had found a stick, but there was no...

The panel, mantel and cabinets have now been painted. It took many hours to apply 2 coats of paint to all of this wood. The doors still need...

Sometimes I forget just how handsome our pups are.

The dining room cabinets are now finished! I hope that we can complete the painting in 2 weeks.