There is progress being made at the house. Trim is up and I have the unenviable task of making sure the nails are set, filling holes, sanding the wood putty and caulking. It's a bit of a pain. However, I found a tool that made my life easier. Behold the pneumatic palm nailer. If you [...]
I am a sucker for a new type of fruitcake recipe. This week I am making the Japanese Fruitcake recipe from Southern Living. It's kind of weird that I found this recipe in a magazine for Southern US recipes. I looked around for an explanation, Delishably defined it as: "There's nothing Japanese about this cake, [...]
This week was an adventure. With a refrigerator that is. It took me five minutes to hook up and two hours to get leveled. Yikes. Even one of the doors came off. Thank goodness for the instructions. I was able to get things back on track, whereas Tony was ready to call Home Depot and [...]
The house is moving along. I am excited that I have a couple of new appliances coming this week. Finally, a working refrigerator that has a water dispenser with ice. No more working on hot days with warm water in my water bottle. I know it's first world problems, but the house gets pretty hot [...]
This weeks recipe came out of sheer curiosity. Flipping through recipes, as I always do, I ran across this one for Cheesy Marinara Beans. I never though about taking white beans and treating them in the spirit of lasagna. And why not? They can be used in that way. The only things I see that [...]
It's been years since I've had an ice cream sandwich. It's not the most gourmet of ice cream treats, but does it really have to be? Considering it's been wicked hot and isn't even July yet, I think this is the perfect time for these. I love them and miss eating them. I can make [...]
I really don't have time to cook this week. With a conference I have to travel to coming up and working on the house, it's just too busy. So I opted for a recipe that could be put together in a flash. Fried rice is one of those dishes that is easy to make and [...]
I have had a reprieve from working on the house for a couple of weeks. I have more flooring to put down, but I can't do that until Tony is done with the tile work. Good news, we will have a working toilet on both floors by the end of this weekend. That doesn't sound [...]
Things are moving along at the new house. However, the huge pile of beige tile we had in our garage is now down to nothing. This means we had to pull up tile in a part of our current house to place down in our new one. Now I have a bare floor that needs [...]
I got the floor laid. I managed to finish without busting up any more of my fingers. If you can afford not do, don't buy the Home Depot Trafficmaster laminate flooring. It's not worth the headache to install. Tony gets the easy flooring (the stuff that costs $2.39 a square foot versus 49 cents a [...]
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