Archive for the ‘our new house’ Category

Leaf Blower Season

Since our move to the new neighborhood leaf blowers have been more and more common. Our neighbors actually have yards here and many of them hire people to come out and care for them.
Leaf blowers have always kind of gotten on my nerves. They are noisy and incredibly wasteful. What’s so terrible about having a [...]


Keeping Your House Cool Without Air Conditioning

This week summer finally arrived. Yay! Well kind of.. This is my first summer in a couple years without central air and it’s definitely an adjustment.
The major challenges to keeping the place cool are
#1 We’re on the 3rd floor
#2 South facing windows
#3 No shade from other buildings to keep the sun from beating down on [...]


What happened to April?

This month has been really busy. I have been slacking on my duties here.
I have been a little preoccupied with the nice change in weather and taking a photography class. This winter was really long and lately I’ve been feeling a little bored. Business is good but after doing similar projects over and over for [...]


Junk Mail! Grr!

This is topic near and dear to my heart. Nothing gets me more riled up (well almost nothing) than getting a bunch of spammy junk mail in my mailbox.
We recently purchased a home and of course now we’re getting tons of junk mail. Super frustrating, wasteful and annoying!
Over the past couple years at our old [...]


Dust Settles

Finally we are mostly settled into the new place. We at least have everything out of the old place now and have handed off the keys. Still a few things to find places for and organize but for the most part it’s starting to feel like home.
What a crazy couple weeks. Well couple months actually. [...]