The guys installing our solar-powered attic fans spotted this: Not good. But luckily I have this guy. And he’s not afraid to take out the enemy to protect his woman and furbabies. Even when the enemy is an angry stinging run-into-the-window kind of creature.
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Home Improvements Can Be Fun
Even when the home improvements are expensive hidden ones – like insulation (and solar-powered attic fans and an attic tent) – when you pay cash for them, they don’t seem like such a big deal. The solar-powered attic fans were a huge improvement over our old whirly-birds. We even added a fan in a section of […]
Theft Protection
We bought a new dishwasher not too long ago – I wrote about that here. I finally got around to filling out our warranty paperwork and discovered what has to be the most ridiculous reason to submit your consumer information: I added the highlight When I showed the card to The Boy, his response was: I […]
I Have Become That Person
Listen – we’re living in year four of a drought. One that’s gotten so bad that our city has mandated water restrictions, allowing for one day per week yard watering. That’s why I don’t have a problem reporting watering violations. If I can’t water, neither can you. Plus if we don’t all conserve, what will the […]
Friday Thoughts
Ah, Friday. It's been an amazingly productive week, both personally and professionally. Strange how that can sometimes happen in a four-day work week. My grocery list is written and ready for the weekend. Dry cleaning is ready to be collected on the way home tonight. The Boy is getting a haircut this evening, before his […]
Future Dreaming
The Boy and I are deep into future dreaming. We’ve finally seen the light at the end of the journey to total debt-freedom tunnel – we even have a pretty good idea when we’ll be at the end of the tunnel. It’s hard not to think about what that will mean…and since we have no […]
Tossing It Out
I finally did it. That’s right, I threw away all of my old unmentionables. The drawer, formerly full of the wrong size, the worn out and the forlorn was cleared out to make room for a bag full of right sized, in mint condition replacements. Definitely not going to show these on a blog for […]
I Have Made – But Nearly Fixed – A Terrible Mistake
I put a cast iron pan in my porcelain sink overnight, intending to clean it in the morning. The next day, I found a huge rust ring under my pan. Horrors!! I scrubbed it with Soft Scrub with bleach. The rust ring remained. Horrors!! After I finished bemoaning my terrible luck – and wondering how […]
This is What Gazelle Intensity Looks Like
The Boy and I spent some time looking at an amortization schedule the other day. That’s when we relized that we’re scarily close to paying off our house loan. Now I’m not saying that we’re going to pay off the house next month or even next year. However, we’ve only been in the Hayley house since […]
Time to Mow
You know it’s time to mow when a neighborhood cat decides your side yard offers the perfect hunting camouflage.