Month Archives: January 2018

More doors to start restoring today: a pair of old 15 light French doors to separate the dining room (being used as Mom's bedroom) from the foyer. I found the ONE pair of doors with my dimensions and window count,...

Earlier today, someone in a Facebook group I'm in posted the resource of newspapers.com to research the history of their old house. I got a trial membership and the first article that came up was about a wedding that took place in...

Lots of Cardinals! Many immature ones. Also a Carolina Chickadee, picking bugs off the JuJube tree. Butt’s on the grill! Put a few apple wood chunks from our apple tree on the coals. It’s smelling really sweet now! It’s after...

A pause in house renovation to fabricate some dog gates. This was kind of a necessity as Mom's dog, Scooter, was chewing up the door frames in the enclosed porch. We moved my mom down to live with us, and...

Water had been seeping into the back door during rain storms, for who knows how long. It rotted out the bottom of the back door, but I repaired it by removing the damaged wood, gluing/nailing in new wood and gluing...

Our doorbell only works sometimes. So someone was outside the front door, presumably having rung the non-working doorbell. The pekes and I were dancing around the house but I passed by in that pause, and through the lace curtains, with...

I have grown various orchids for years, but I'm downsizing my collection of over fifty (yes, you read that correctly: FIFTY?!) orchids, as Sadie is eating up all our time these days... with no end in sight! And if you...