After last weekend’s main drain backup it turned out the plumbing wasn’t finished with us yet. Thursday afternoon the shower in the basement bathroom we’ve been using for the past month while our main bathroom remodel takes its sweet time, decided to leak. And it wasn’t one of those slow drip, drip leaks. But we …
Category: Plans and Goals
Seedy
Hello Friends! I missed posting yesterday because I was busy scrubbing the basement bathroom after our main sewer drain backed up Saturday. We couldn’t run water down the drains or use the bathroom all day until the plumber finally made it out at 8:30 that night. James had to wet vac the basement utility room …
Winter Solstice 2025
Oh Friends, it has been a busy couple of weeks, but now I am happily on vacation for the next two weeks. Aaaaahhhhhh. The busy was from many things. At work it was wrapping up the semester and trying to make sure the professors I support had all the research materials they needed while the …
Windows Between Worlds
Who needs ChatGPT? I just typed "window" in the Google search bar and it helped me title my post. Ha! The main event this last week was having our new windows installed! We did all the windows on our main floor expect for the bathroom (we think we want a glass block window and the …
No Escape
When James and I moved from Los Angeles to the Twin Cities back in 1994 we were astonished at how inexpensive houses and land were out here. We ourselves still couldn’t afford it, but we thought in time we might be able to buy a 10-acre hobby farm just outside the city for the low, …
