Thankfulness and a Thirteen Pound Turkey
To be exact, it is a 13.68 pound turkey. Thanksgiving is this week and we are furiously working on the …
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Crushed Under the Weight of the Grief and Paperwork of Loss
The past two days have been some of the harder ones in a good long while. It is not the …
A Little 484 Square Foot House
With all the high drama of building a 4,000 square foot house much of which is money-related, I yearned for …
Yellow Highlighter Houses
Tonight as I watched my professor-spouse grade his 90 exams, I was reminded when we were in graduate school and …
Electric Blankets, a Stick or Two of Lumber a Bit of Subflooring and a Scratch of Roof
As a human, one of the true great pleasures is easing into a warm bed on a cold night. As …
Simulations of Home
I have a computer program that lets me transfer our house plans into 3D models. I can make a flat …
A Day with Sophie, “Snow Nose” the Dog
Since the wee hours of Friday morning and this Sunday morning we have gotten more snow than we did last …
A New-to-Us Subaru
We got our first Subaru in 1985. It was a white Subaru Brat Truck. We got our second Subaru in …
From the Horror and Betrayal of Love Canal Came a Positive Thing
It is very hard to think that anything good could come from the human made disaster at Love Canal where …
Being Homesick
This recovery from the wildfire that ate our house, our neighbors houses and a thousand acres around us is exhausting. …
Building One Home 