It's been a while, right? We should be overflowing in veg by now from all those seeds, shouldn

I'm recovering from a cold, so I'll keep this short. Over the weekend we planted 36 types of

It's el Nino, warmest January on record, shit be budding. Spring is going to be early this year,

Ok. We got a new thermostat, to replace the crappy one. Guess what. That wasn't the real problem.

This one is from the "there's always something" files. See, we have this heater, see.

People have been asking after the sauerkraut we started a few weeks ago. Short answer: it didn't

We found some sword ferns hiding behind some crappy overblown bush in our back yard. We used them to

We just got our second water bill. It's staggering, again. So I did the three seconds of research

Sauerkraut, the very word says "something you buy in a store". Why would we try to make it

We finally got the jars! So last night we filled them up with jam. We used Ball's canning book

We're still waiting on our stupid jars, so still no jam. But I did get my hands on a couple 1

But apparently it's easy to make jam from them. And that's a good thing because, as I just

When standing around in the big box home store trying to decide whether or not the optional spray is

Yesterday I turned off the irrigation system. For good. I've been nervous about the automatic

About three weeks ago the lights in the kitchen stopped working. We have, needless to say, been

Our wonderful neighbors invited us out to go watch the fireworks. We fully intented to take them up

It's been a huge week. Rakka painted two rooms including their closets, plus some trim in other

It's been a whirlwind of a weekend. On Thursday we borrowed KJs truck, loaded it with a mattress

This morning we went to the title insurance company and signed everything. As we mentioned before, in

Today, I'm stealing the idea of using a Dipity timeline from the Kitsap Sun. I love sites that

The paperwork is at escrow, so we should be getting it for review any time now. We'll probably go

We got word from the lender that, other than one minor point with the appraisal, that he's

We decided that, now that the appraisal was in, we should tell the landlord. Rakka and I are worriers