House and Home
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Cool!
I know we've been making progress, but today I actually felt like we were getting a little bit closer to being done with the living room. My Dad came down to help us…
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Special feed for Our Old House entries!
Thanks to a suggestion by the Houseblogs.net folks, I went ahead and created a special feed for only entries related to our old house restoration. If you're here just to read about that,…
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Busy day
Today was busy. We were pretty tired after yesterday, so we slept-in a bit before getting up for church. I had to cook tonight to make something for the church's young adult group…
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Veteran’s Day
This entry is a bit late in coming, but here it is anyway. :) Our neighborhood still has one parade that goes through it, and that's the Veteran's Day Parade. The parade here…
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Paint Stripping Fun (again)
We got a bunch of work done on the house today. My Dad came down to help. We first wired-up a new outlet in the basement on an individual circuit for a chest…
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New Tools! (and more work, of course)
Earlier this week, I was pondering how to make it easier to strip paint from some of the more intricate moulding. While thinking about this, I wondered to myself how much it would…
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Paint Stripping Fun
Last week, we were fortunate enough to have a great weekend working on the room. Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, my Mom came down to help strip paint, and Babcia provided dinner…
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Woodwork, housework, biking, and rest!
Today was a good day. Jenny went to see her sisters today at her parents' house, and I thought that she might like some sister time without the husband around. It also gave…
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Stuff
Tomorrow is Halloween, and our neighborhood is participating again, as we have in the past. It is always fun to see the kids around the neighborhood on their little sugar highs. :) We…
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The garbage people hate us, I’m sure
I've been working on cleaning-out the basement, in preparation of moving my woodshop there. We've worked on lighting, wiring, and now I've been working on cleaning and organization. The cleaning stage of this…