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Don’t Cry Over Spilt Paint
I had just left the hardware store for the third time in one day, tired and hungry and wanting to just be finished with the day’s tasks. As our house is in a constant state of flux between being so clean you can eat off the floors and a complete construction zone, we try to […]
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DIY: Garage Teardown Edition
Based on how you look at it, we got a screamin’ deal on our house. You could also just consider us crazy. After all, who wants to deal with a bat infestation, pink walls, a garage with a broken door, mold, and a huge crack in the floor….the list goes on. We do. Or, rather, […]
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Opinion- Everyone Has One
My niece visited a couple of weeks ago, making our house the last stop on a road trip before she headed back to college. She’s starting her Sophomore year this autumn and as often happens, we started talking about life. She loves animals, so growing up, when adults asked ‘what do you want to be […]
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It Isn’t The Taj Mahal
Free time these days is taken up by working on our house and yard. To say that there is a lot of deferred maintenance may just be the understatement of the year. We’ve evicted bats, hacked a jungle living under our deck, grew a garden, learned to pressure can, put in new floors, painted the […]
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Monday Musings: What’s It Worth?
Nothing is worth your life. I was crouched down, my camera pointed at a seagull, trying to snap the perfect moment. I took a step forward and stumbled, just as a wave crashed against the sand. I didn’t realize the tide was coming in and the next wave got closer and higher than I was […]
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Baking Day!
My family wasn’t big into baking when I was a kid, so it was by accident that I fell into the habit of baking. We’d have box cake mix for birthdays and very rarely (maybe once or twice a year), homemade chocolate chip cookies. Growing up, I remember standing on a chair for what seemed […]
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Monday Musings: Trash to Treasure
I was walking along the beach yesterday, hoping for a beautiful view. I wanted a blue sky and to see far into the horizon. Instead, I got another view: grey sky, tumultuous surf, and fog. Before arriving, I had planned to walk several miles on the coastline. My walk wasn’t deterred by the weather, so […]
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ProOne Water Filter Review
This post contains affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. After we noticed that our water was smelling and tasted bad, we set out on a search for a water filtration system. We looked at reverse osmosis systems (expensive!) and […]