Category: home

  • 2009 Staycation, Part 4

    Part 4 of the Great 2009 Staycation (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3). Sorry for the delay in getting this up, but I have finally gotten around to it. So, Tuesday, we originally were going to head downtown, but for various reasons, it didn’t work out great. So instead we just took kind of…

  • 2009 Staycation, Part 3

    Part 3 of the great 2009 Staycation! (Part 1 and Part 2) Saturday and Sunday we hung out at my parents house. For some reason we didn’t really take any pictures, so…. sorry! Saturday we had some friends of ours (the Olmsteds and Broadbents) that had moved from Cincinnati to Cleveland over for a BBQ.…

  • Update links

    Been awhile since I posted, so I thought I would let you know what was going on. Actually, I’ll have Carolyn let you know what is going on, since she blogged about it and I am just going to shamelessly link to her writeups 🙂 First, we had a new driveway installed – see Part…

  • Ghetto stud finder

    So, first of all, all the “stud” jokes have already all been made. No need to repeat them in the comments or anything. Anyways, we have one of those stud finders that run on batteries (speficially the iSensor from Zircon) With our recent spate of hanging things up and such, we needed to break out…

  • Rental woes

    So since we’re moving to a new house, we have decided to rent the home that we’re currently living in. We decided that with the market the way that it is, even if we could sell it, we couldn’t get as much as we think it’s worth. I put a sign out front and some…

  • Oooh that’s brisk

    So our hot water heater died on Friday. Or actually what I have since learned is called the thermal couple died. We called our home warranty folks on Friday and a guy came out on Friday night. He (thought that) he had the part to do it so he got to work and it turns…