I am rather firmly planted in the online shopping camp. My Amazon shopping history includes everything from batteries, to paper plates, to kayak paddles. But, you really can’t buy kitchen appliances online. Or at least I can’t. I need to see all the nooks, crannies, and details of my big purchase before I pull the…
Week 10 might be one of the biggest weeks we’ve had so far. So much happened – and the things that happened really signaled strong progress. Strong progress = happy homeowner = less stuff in storage… in the hopefully not so distant future. We are almost getting to a point where we are running out…
We had our first snow this past weekend … which pretty much had me craving all things hot with tomatoes and meat. Options lead to meatballs or chili. I had a pretty long day of looking at appliances at multiple appliance stores… so a low impact chili was the winner. In the effort to try…
I think just last week I was commenting on how unenthused I was about quinoa. I probably said the exact same thing the last time I made quinoa cakes. But, as I was wrapping up my weekend I felt the need to treat my body a bit like a temple. I had some leftover butternut…
I’ll be honest. I’m writing week 9 while we are in week 10 – but both weeks are so good that they deserve to be on their own. Maybe in week 21 I’ll change my mind and start merging things again. BUT, week 9. We started the back deck and I died with excitement. Not…
I’m meeting with a new potential kitchen designer in a few days. During our initial conversation, it was interesting to reflect on how far this new potential design is from the old one. A world of difference and I love it. This new kitchen placement just feels so much more natural to me. As a…
One of the best features of this house has been sticking around for over 100 years – the stairs. You can’t build stairs like this. Well, you can – but it just would not be the same. I’ve loved these stairs from the beginning. I love the two landings. I love the window at the…
How is it week 8? It feels like it should be both week 3 and week 12 all at once. This was a bit of a slower week with Thursday being a holiday. I haven’t been able to really get back inside the house because all the ladders are actually inside the house and I…
As previously documented, I was responsible for brining two things to Thanksgiving Dinner. Cranberry Sauce… and Butternut Squash. The cranberry sauce went much better than the squash. The squash was too lumpy and unimpressive. I tried to fix it by adding candied walnuts and that was really just a bandaid for a bad dish. So…
Cranberry sauce is a pretty straight forward dish. It could not be easier to make and customize to your own tastes. You have a better chance of screwing up everything else on your table than the cranberry sauce. About a month ago I went to a cooking demonstration at a local appliance store. The chef…
