What a busy week! Tony has been working on our old house getting ready to sell. We have so much stuff! We have so much stuff because we accumulated things from others in the family. They didn't have room for it, so it ended up with us. That includes cars. One of our cars came [...]
I love Rick Bayless and the interesting Mexican dishes he recreates. Every time I connect in Chicago, I eat at Fonterra Grill. I am still trying to get my hands on huitlacoche (a fungus that infects corn). His restaurants serve it. I sounds like something you would want to avoid, it infects corn after all. [...]
Our house has been nothing short of perfect. With the exception of one thing: there is something wrong with the drainage of the wastewater from the house. This was not an unknown problem. However, we still have to get it fixed. Old house, more problems. We fixed most of them, but since we hadn't had [...]
Elvis has left the building! I mean the tools are leaving the house. This week Tony is removing tools and bringing them to our current house. We're only leaving a few to finish the flooring and other little things. My IT guy brother is finishing the network infrastructure. We are spending most of the week [...]
I can hardly believe it. We are hopefully starting the final room next week. That means we will be moving a few weeks after that. It'll be busy wrapping things up, but I am excited. It's been one hell of a ride. This week's recipe is one I found first in Diners, Drive ins, and [...]
What a difference a week makes. We are so close that I am running out of things to do until the last room will come together. I expect that the last things that Tony has to do will finish in the next couple of weeks. I finished shower doors in one bathroom. Now it looks [...]
Another week of working on the house. We are so close but yet not quite there yet. I installed a reverse osmosis system, and was so proud of myself. That was until the needle valve started leaking. I hope a new plastic compression sleeve will fix it. Otherwise it's painting and installing shower doors this [...]
As I write this I am taking a rest day today. I'm not feeling well. My body basically said, "I've had enough". So I am taking some walks and doing light yoga to recover. Tony, of course, is still working. He is the Energizer bunny. Ever since I stupidly overtrained, I need to listen to [...]
We are coming in on the home stretch. I am painting for the foreseeable future and Tony is getting the shelving and final drywall hung. I'm working everyday. It's hard, but the finish line is in sight. This week's recipe is one that uses up some leftover steel cut oats I have laying around. I [...]
I decided this week to go with a soup. It's not quite sweater weather yet, but Tony loves soups. Frankly, so do I. I wanted to go with something simple because we are still working on the house. We are in the home stretch and everything we finish just makes the house complete. I am [...]
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