December 31st, 2007
The New Year is always a great time for me to really focus on my organization system (or lack thereof). I enjoy organizing things and BEING organized, and if I feel disorganized I get stressed. When our previous house was on the market, it was completely free of clutter, and it really helped in the [...]
December 21st, 2007
Our heating guy came out on Monday to see what’s what with our system. For one thing, whoever redid the pipes put a smaller pipe from the boiler to the larger heat pipes, so the water velocity is diminished right from the start. That would probably explain why it takes over four hours for the [...]
December 17th, 2007
I thought I’d try a weekly photo series called Portraits of Home. I remember in one of my college photography classes we had to take black-and-white photos of our concept of Home.
I know that my concept of Home has changed since then, especially when it’s my own home and not my parents’. During college [...]
December 14th, 2007
Well, I haven’t made a lot of progress on the heating project, and I’ll have to admit I wasn’t very diligent on tracking our temperature fluctuations this weekend. The times that I did track it showed that while the thermostat said 68°, it was usually 5° colder in the family room/kitchen. (And, okay, Chris at [...]
December 6th, 2007
It’s already quite cold here in the Windy City: 21° F. Since this is our first winter in the bungalow it’s taking some time to get warm. We were in our previous house for so long, it was a no-brainer: flip on the heat switch and let it go.
With a new (old) house, it’s [...]