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Tag: Home Improvement

  • garden

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    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    garden

  • found: spring

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  • sundown

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    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    sundown

  • pterry, the pterodactyl

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    thanks to a certain ex-high school sweetheart, my favorite stuffed animal as a child — pterry, the pterodactyl — has come home to roost. he’s already done a stint hanging above sparklet’s bed, only to be moved a couple of months later, to the mighty quinn’s room, when sparklet started having nightmares about the monster hanging over her bed. oops.

  • found: garbage can

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  • hardware

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    we’ve developed a little tradition for sunday afternoons — sparklet and i run out to the hardware store to pick up, well, stuff for whatever is broken in our 97 year old house. she loves the dog. i love getting out of the house. mommy loves sleeping. win, win, win.

  • washer/dryer

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    we give up.

    our washer flooded a couple of times over christmas, and the timer on the dryer no longer advances (meaning that we can run the dryer for 8+ hours non-stop if we’re not smart enough to shut it off manually).

    so mommy get’s her christmas wish after all — new, bigger, washer and dryer.

  • house photography

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    [Glen Coe, Scotland, UK.]
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    eighteen months after we moved in, we finally have pictures on the wall.

    when we staged our old place for sale, our real estate agent told us to put up artwork that made people think about the neighborhood — so we dowloaded a bunch of photos from flickr, framed them, and put them on our wall. and, we never got around to swapping them out once we moved.

    after a weekend of photo selection (and printing via mpix) we now have honest-to-God family photos hanging on the wall.

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    house photography

  • christmas miracle

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    on christmas night, with 10 people and 2 dogs in the house, our washing machine flooded the basement and our main floor toilet stopped flushing. but when we woke up the next morning, there was a plumber parked out front of our house to service one of our neighbors. it’s a christmas miracle…

  • out: lost dog cafe

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    out in the burbs to buy curtains (more later) and we stopped by lost dog cafe for lunch.

    the mighty quinn loved his beer, fwiw.

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    out: lost dog cafe