As many of you know, winter is not my favorite season. See this post for further clarification. http://thedragonrun.com/desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures/ Since we moved in to this beautiful, old building we have tried to stay comfortable during the winter months without breaking the bank, and things have improved since that first...
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*Clears throat* *Tunes imaginary instruments* On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… Twelve eggs from ho-ome Eleven colored windows Ten boughs of fresh pine (from out backyard) Nine Christmas bo-ows Eight Christmas cookies Seven(ty two) feet...
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Moria. You fear to go into that crawlspace. The cold spread too greedily and too deep. You know what you awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm: cobwebs and dust… The air was cold and the wind harsh over the realm in the winter past, the Queen knew they could not...
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Sometimes you have to look around this house and look back while thinking, what in the world happened? How did we end up owning all this house? How did so much of this work get done in the last twenty months, with a wedding stuck in the middle...
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DUN! DUN DUN! dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun…dun…Okay that doesn’t come across like it sounds, just imagine that was the 20th Century Fox fanfare and then you’ll get what I mean. You’ve seen us scraping, you’ve heard our woes. We have toiled...
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With the wedding only a few weeks out and the wall out of the way, Mom and I turned out attention to the store’s floor. Once the wall was gone there was a very visible break in the finished floor by the stairs and the floor of the store....
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By now, you and everyone else who’s read anything on this blog knows it’s been a lot of work to get this place together, especially with our wedding deadline coming up in July. But really, you’re seeing a fraction of what gets done every weekend, and I mean...
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*Deep movie trailer voice* They decimated the walls upstairs…They destroyed every hint of the master bathroom…You thought they were done…Coming this summer, the sledgehammers are back to finish the job and this time, it’s personal. From New Plan Productions, you won’t wanna miss Demolition II, The Wedding Planner…...
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Good morning everyone! Today’s the day! The sun is shining, the tank is clean- Wait no, that’s Finding Nemo. And I just dropped my allergy pill on the floor and it rolled into a spiderweb. Joy. It’s supposed to be seventy-seven degrees today. You know what that means?...
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So, now that we’ve finally started to get settled in (yes, it has taken over three weeks) we’ve started planning something else. No, not a future antique business, not a thriving restaurant (which I can promise you is not happening. Been there done that got that t-shirt). No,...
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