Showing posts with label House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label House. Show all posts
Monday, September 12, 2016

Mortgage Monday: Time To Keep It Simple

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With all of the work being done on the house lately things have been rather complicated. So far, nothing has been as simple as it shou...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Mortgage Monday: Labor Day Labor

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While I don’t have work today the ironic thing about this Labor Day is that there is work being done at the house. It seems as though ...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Mortgage Monday: HVAC Overhaul

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Well, we are halfway there. While the work weeks were once filled with ongoing renovations, now the weekends are taking the brunt of th...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

A Welcomed Weekend

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While we have a busy schedule this weekend we still have an opportunity to catch up on a few things. When we originally moved into our ...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Firearms Friday: Returning To The Work Bench

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Try as I might, it has been extremely difficult to find the time to spend at my workbench. Whenever I thought that there would be a lit...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

TMI Tuesday: I Don’t Like Working Being Done!

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Might have to make one of these given how fascinated he is with the work being done. Over the last couple of months we have had somet...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Mortgage Monday: Timing

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It seems like a constant dilemma that we are facing week after week, project after project. The simple, yet complicated, question that ...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Mortgage Monday: Not Recommended

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There used to be plants there... One of the many projects that we have checked off our list so far this summer has been to get some bas...
Monday, August 8, 2016

Mortgage Monday: We Have Gas!

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When my wife and I purchased our home we were well aware of the shortcomings of the heating and air conditioning . We also knew that t...
Monday, August 1, 2016

Mortgage Monday: We Finally Have Our House Back!

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This is how it all started. When I first reached out to contractors in late June there were two very simple projects in mind, garage do...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

TMI Tuesday: Hey, This Isn’t Camp!

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Given the length of time that our son had been away from daycare, my wife and I decided to send him to camp this summer. This chaos ...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Mortgage Monday: And Then That Happened…

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Last week, in the early afternoon, I was in the middle of a project at the office. The deadline wasn’t until the end of the day and I w...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Mortgage Monday: Water, Garage Doors, And Security

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Last week I spent some time working from home but, just like the days that I decide to “take off”, it was for the simple reason that th...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Mortgage Monday: Revising The Project List

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My wife and I have continuously kept an informal project list of things that we would like to have done at the house. As I have written...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

What Happened To Our Summer?

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Previously I wrote about trying to figure out where my wife and I were going to take our son this summer. Many of the plans mentioned i...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Mortgage Monday: The Small Things

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Orkin may have gone overboard...  Summer is now upon us and my wife and I have been busy picking up things here and there for the house...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Busy Day Off

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A day off is never simply a day off anymore. While there are occasions when I have taken some time to travel or go to different events,...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Mortgage Monday: More Estimates

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Whenever work needs to be done at the house that is beyond my limited capabilities, it is rarely a simple process to get that job done....
Monday, May 23, 2016

Mortgage Monday: Estimates

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While I was hoping to get a head start on this process much earlier in the year, sometimes things just don’t go exactly as we plan them...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

TMI Tuesday: DIY Baby

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Next Project! Our son has always had a fascination with texture and anything that seemed out of the ordinary. Basically, anything that ...