Posted in General, The House on August 14th, 2006 No Comments »
For our anniversary, we bought ourselves a one-cup coffee/tea maker. We purchased the Keurig B40 and so far have no complaints. This machine uses “k-cups” instead of tea bags or coffee grinds–simply pop in the k-cup of choice and brew.
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Hello again,
Casey’s parents came up this past week to help with the house again. They’re such a great help–we certainly could not complete this remodeling project without them!
You’d probably like to know what we accomplished this week, so here goes…
We installed 7 new windows (3 in the living room, 2 […]
The weather has finally warmed up here in the great north. I have been wearing capris for our 50 and 60 degree days and boy does it feel nice! The trees have bloomed, and the grass is growing voraciously.
A couple of weeks ago, we had the kitchen blacksplash tiled. We […]
Posted in General, The House on March 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Casey and I finished the bedroom flooring last weekend, so I’m attaching pictures of that. The big news, however, is that we finally have kitchen countertops! A couple weekends ago we visited the granite fabricator and saw the slabs from which our countertop would be carved. They were installed today and […]
Posted in General, The House on February 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
Hello,
We’ve encountered a very mild winter here so far. It’s still unbearably cold to me most of the time, but at least we don’t have snow covering the ground at the moment. Life is quite busy at school–Casey is in a rotation he really enjoys, and I’m TAing labs and doing a […]
Posted in General, The House on November 7th, 2005 1 Comment »
Happy Halloween! I’m a few days late I know, but I have some cool pictures of pumpkins we carved on Sunday, October 30th. I have never carved a pumpkin, so it was a fun experience for both Casey and myself. I chose a funny looking face to carve (One of my fellow […]
Posted in General, The House on September 18th, 2005 No Comments »
Progress on the house has slowed a bit as orientation has been going for a week. In addition we’ve been having some problems with one of the first decisions we made while here. Before getting to know the area, we ordered our kitchen flooring from Home Depot. This was at the end […]