Yesterday we started the big move. There have been many preparations but yesterday with the help of many family members we moved the majority of the art to the new house. “You’re moving you say?” Yes! I haven’t been writing much lately but we bought a house and closed on it on …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Big Move StartedToday we closed on our new house. It was an exciting day filled with activity and signing many, many sheets of paper. To celebrate the closing we moved a handful of things into the new house including Mazie’s play table and decided to have dinner at the new place from Broder’s …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Dinner in New HousePreparing for another open house today. 🤞
Just got a call to confirm our first showing for the house. Nice!
Then mad dash to get house prepared for first showing done. Drenched in sweat from shoveling out the firepit.
Sometimes I get really excited by projects we have done around the house (garage shelves, rain gutters. Right now I’m really excited about the new decking boards that we had put on our deck. Our deck surface was original with the house, now 20 years old. The boards were rotting …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Deck ResurfacedThis week we said goodbye to one of the most distinctive art features of our house. In January of 2003 Tammy’s longtime friend Liane McMeen painted a great mural in our living room that surrounded a piece of art that we got in Denver featuring a dog positioned in a Volkswagen Bug …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Goodbye Blue Dog MuralWe were having a nice afternoon at Como Park today and the Water Lily area was just breathtaking. Sometimes the subject is so amazing that you just need to point the camera and shoot. Minus a slight crop, this is straight off the Canon 5D Mark II sensor through the 70-200mm f/2.8L.
Tulips.
Dreading having to empty the basement to have new carpet installed tomorrow. 🙁
Debating with Tammy about why she is vacuuming carpet that is going to be torn out tomorrow morning.
A couple of months ago we decided to re-tile our downstairs bathroom shower. After 20 years the house had settled enough that there were notable cracks that we didn’t feel we could just caulk over. We pondered what to do with the tiling and considered a number of designs. Our …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Tetris Shower