August 27th, 2009
We stopped at Crate and Barrel last week to buy a hanging pot rack for the kitchen.
I knew Pete would roll his eyes if I started wandering around, so I grabbed a catalog to take home.
When I sat down to flip through it, I just about swooned when I saw this daybed. I measured [...]
August 27th, 2009
After multiple trips to Tile Outlet (a great discount tile source if you’re in the Chicago area), additional trips to King of Tile (also a good place for deals but not as big) and Century Tile, we finally ended our quest for bathroom tile at The Tile Shop in Deerfield.
At first I assumed that [...]
August 26th, 2009
If our Master Bedroom is Tranquility Lodge, then our other room upstairs is a Weimaraner Dinner Party according to its paint color names (Benjamin Moore AF-155 and AF-300, respectively).
I can just picture a bunch of Weimaraners lounging about, listening to jazz and sipping cognac. They’re much more sophisticated-looking than the Dogs Playing Poker, wouldn’t [...]
August 21st, 2009
When we’re not chasing bats, eating our veggies, working, visiting Pete’s dad in rehab or the myriad other things that seem to constantly pop up, we’re also trying to make headway on our attic remodel so that we can move in/up.
Once the hardwood floors were finished, I was itching to start painting, my favorite “chore”.
I’m [...]
August 21st, 2009
Finally back online after my switch to a new hosting service. That took much longer than I expected.
I was hoping to change a couple of things in Wordpress while I was at it, but I think it’s more trouble than it’s worth, so I’m just going to leave that one alone.
At least I’m updated [...]
August 20th, 2009
I am sooo fed up with the company that hosts my site. I have noticed way too much downtime (like this morning) and every time it happens I vow to move the site elsewhere but never get around to it. Not this time!
I plan to do it today. Hopefully the move will go smoothly and [...]
August 19th, 2009
When I last reported on the remodel, I offered a glimpse of the finished space, which included our hardwood flooring installation in progress.
We originally planned on installing the hardwood flooring ourselves, but after pricing material and the cost to rent equipment — not to mention all the time involved — the contractor gave us a [...]
August 19th, 2009
We had another visit from our friend, the bat. Sigh.
Although we haven’t yet moved upstairs to our new master bedroom, we decided to try out bed placement and slept up there Saturday night on the air mattress (it’s a
August 14th, 2009
We are overloaded with vegetables from our Organic Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) Vegetable Share.
That doesn’t even include all the lettuce.
While I love belonging to our CSA, Angelic Organics — one, because it encourages one to eat vegetables that are in season, and two, it also tends to push one beyond their usual comfort zone to [...]
August 13th, 2009
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while (for which I’m very grateful!), then you may remember that we were burglarized in June 2008, right before we came home from work on a Friday night.
Except for the few things I was wearing, the burglar took every single piece of jewelry I owned, including my [...]
August 12th, 2009
Late last night, or early this morning, depending on your individual perspective, at around 1:30, Pete and I awakened to hear the cat, Günter, scurrying around the house.
This was not unusual, as he prefers to use the litter box when no one is looking — yes, the boy has bathroom issues. Needless to say, sometimes [...]
August 11th, 2009
It’s been a while, but I’m hoping to catch up on all the happenings around here in the next week or so.
Thanks for all your thoughts, prayers and well-wishes for my father-in-law. He is currently in rehab and appears to be slowly improving, although it’s doubtful he’ll be living on his own from this point [...]