Two things left: 1) Sell everything in the Wild West of Marketplace (the wildest place on earth). 2) Speaking of the Wild West, I then needed to load up the Bronco. The Bronco was being a little feisty in the wet weather and did not want to get on the trailer nicely! Bad Bronco! In …
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The hard work SHOULD have been done. I’d already fought with the tractor to get it going again. Today is moving day, and she started right up. Good…Check! But then I, inexplicably, ran out of gas halfway onto the trailer?!? So what should have been an easy project turned into a debacle. Honestly, fairly typical, …
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Last year, this bed was an emergency project (disaster). This year, it was only slightly better. So, this year I reshaped everything and installed a clean edge. I have it in good shape now and ready for fall planting. Next year, we will no longer be an embarrassment to our community! LOL
The 2026 Tennessee Winter Snowmageddon was wild! Lots of snow, sleet, ice (lots of ice), super low temperatures, trees down everywhere, power out everywhere, impassable roads…and all for a week…plus! Surviving it wasn’t as bad as it could have been for us, however. We never lost power. So Emily could spend all her time tracking …
The second phase of our sideyard project is now in place. The structure is built. My favorite part of this project is that I didn’t have to do any of it! I also had a birds-eye view of it as I got to watch it outside my office window. I was a lot warmer than …
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As I finished up the steps in the foyer, I realized that it had been exactly one year since we closed on the house. I had ripped the carpet off those steps the very first day. Exactly one year later, I was reinstalling the last spindle on the completed steps. The past year has been …
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The first thing we did when we bought the house was rip the carpet off the steps to see what we had. We had something, but it was under layers of paint. So, hard to know what. Refinishing the hardwood floors in the entire house took a lot out of us, and we abandoned refinishing …
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To repipe the house, I had to rip out the guest bathroom floor (which was going to come out anyway). Then the ceiling had to be removed (because the roof was leaking). After all the demolition and repairs happened, it could all be put back together again. Once that started, I was given a deadline …
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The office renovation was supposed to be easy. Pull the old laundry room sink and paint. We ended up having to remove the ceiling, reframe the roof, and install a new roof (with insulation this time). What was supposed to be an easy room turned out to be a bear! Along the way, we found …
Moving water pipes, never-ending demo, moving walls, and now we are finally finishing up. We made our final decisions on where everything would go. Emily went into war room mode, figuring out the “design”. Once that was finalized, we completed the electrical, plumbing, drywall, painting, and tiling. For me, this was more fun because I …
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