Ah, January. The longest month of the year. But in this case, a fast first half and a (wonderfully) slow second half. We kicked off the New Year with a very cold New Years Day 5 Miler with the IRC Dallas family. We headed to Florida for our long-awaited Disney Marathon weekend. I ran the […]

This list doesn’t include intangible improvements, like updating all of our legal documents, scanning and filing all of Johnnie’s papers post-death and renewing our passports. New Closet Hangers Simply switching to velvet hangers saved us a ton of closet space. And you would not believe how fast our old hangers were claimed as a free […]

I wanted to capture in one place a visual timeline of the changes in our backyard during 2023. We’ve never loved our backyard. It was suburban-basic. At the same time we never had the funds available to hire someone to make it better. Finally in 2020, I got brave and decided to draw up our […]

For several years we’ve debated whether rentals were something we wanted to do. They are a lot of hassle but, if done right, generate significate returns. Last fall we received our final share of inheritance after the death of Kelly’s parents in 2021. Rather than spending on immediate wants, we put the money in the […]

December was simultaneously a fast and long month. Lots of activity, lots of celebrating, lots of relaxing. Maybe it was actually the perfect month. The City’s Holiday Luncheon returned! There’s nothing like being in person for food and fellowship. We had our first annual team festive holiday shirt and luncheon. It was wonderful. Behold the […]

Finally. After replacing the floors, rebuilding the closet, finding a new area rug, repainting, hanging new curtains and rehanging artwork, the master bedroom is finally DONE. The bed is now on our east wall, which meant our old gallery wall had to go and I needed to rethink all of the artwork placement. I also […]