Small Victories

potted plant progress

Ah, Friday. The perfect day for a brain dump and some blog updates.As some of you (might) know, I love this whole blog design thing. I taught myself how to do HTML, CSS, and have been learning how to do the more complicated stuff so that you can get the most out of navigating this site (I'm just … [Read more...]

Eyes Wide Open

Whenever my sister first sees something she's really excited about, her eyes get really wide, and you can read all over her face that it's made her day.  It cracks me up.  I'm sorry to say that I don't share her same enthusiasm quite as often, but when I do, it's usually about stuff for the house. … [Read more...]

Sore from head to toe. I should probably train for this.

obstacle race

As I mentioned on Friday, I ran the Savage Race over the weekend.  It was a lot of fun.  If you find seven miles of hardcore obstacles involving fire, barbed wire, and mud fun.  Fortunately I do, but my muscles are the sorest they've probably ever been.  I was not in good shape for this race at … [Read more...]

Cheers to the Freakin’ Weekend

Remember how I mentioned I like doing M.O.B. (mud, obstacles, beer) races?This is the one I'm doing this weekend:It's going to be the longest and hardest one I've ever done.  This time around, I'm going to buy some gloves.  Because I don't think I can handle this without 'em:As always, … [Read more...]

Make It Work

Tim Gunn, eat your heart out.  I've finally figured out how to work with all of the pine trees in my backyard instead of working around them.Well, technically I guess that's not true.  I'm still working around them.  But in a way that actually makes them an appealing feature of the back yard … [Read more...]

Casing the Joint: The Dining Room, Part 1

window casing

My goal, someday, is to have casing around ALL of the windows in the house.  I'm starting with the lower floor.  And more specifically, in terms of this blog, I'm starting with the dining room.  Mostly because the camera was closest to the dining room.  That's how this blog works: on … [Read more...]

Ain’t No Need to Go Outside

(If you haven't figured it out by now, most of my post titles come from song lyrics; today's is courtesy of one of my favorite rainy day songs).Well, the weekend didn't turn out quite like I'd planned.  It was mostly because of the rain (pouring all. weekend. long. with big, fat, chilly … [Read more...]