I found this article on speed cleaning last week. It has a lot of good ideas in it. I think we’re going to try it out. I’d much rather have the house look good all of the time versus looking good just after I do a major cleaning. In other …
I’ve been trying to do some things to make our lives “greener”. I think it all started a few years ago when our friend Steve told us about this thing called a CSA (community supported agriculture). You can read all about them at Local Harvest. One year, we split a …
But, we haven’t even used the last pile yet! Brian got a line on some 6/4 cherry (that’s 1 1/2 inch thick for you non lumberjacks out there). Since thicker wood is necessary in furniture building, we opted to buy this because all of our other stuff is 4/4 (1 …
So, I’m washing clothes today and was putting a load in the dryer when I heard running water somewhere in the house. No one was upstairs so I knew it wasn’t coming from there. The washer wasn’t running at the moment, so it wasn’t coming from there, either. It sounded …
I bought new grates for our Weber grill a few weeks ago. When I tried to put them on, they wouldn’t fit (by approximately 1/4 inch). For whatever reason, the cook box had warped and that was the cause of the problem (I guess the old grates still fit because …