We’ve been in our new house for almost a month now and I can now list one of the benefits of carpet: it holds down the Newf fur to prevent the tumbleweeds. Our new house has no carpet at all. It’s all tile and old hardwood floors and that’s the way we like it. Having […]

Well, I don’t really have anything new to report on the kitty/doggie integration. The cats still don’t seem to be giving the dog any leniency around here and the dog can’t understand the rules of this hissing and growling game the cats have but she sure would like to learn. There was an unintended visit […]

So Macky has left and won’t be back until the new door arrives for the office. He thinks it should be here sometime this week so he’ll give us a call. He also has some trim to finish out in the entry hall but at least the more major tasks are complete now. The dishwasher […]

We talked to Macky yesterday to let him know that our sink cabinet had finally arrived and that we’d like him to come by when he had to set it up, finally move the connection for the dishwasher so that we can move the kitchen cabinets back and get the counter top ordered, and deal […]

After all the other things that we were doing this weekend, I almost forgot that we also installed a new lamp in the bathroom upstairs. We found one at IKEA that we thought would work and it does look quite good in there. We also bought one for the office downstairs but unfortunately it is […]