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I promised before and after pics of the fence, so here they are: Before After It look great, doesn’t it?  I just hope it lasts a good long time, ’cause that is NOT a project I’m looking forward to tackling.  I’m sure the neighbors were happy, though, what with the free bush trimming they received [...]

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This weekend in Chicagoland was amazingly beautiful.  Highs in the low 70′s, clear and sunny.  A small breeze. So, what to do on such a wonderful weekend? Stain the fence, that’s what.  A job I have dreaded since having the fence installed last October. And, I was right to dread it.  What an awful, boring, [...]

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It was 9 p.m. last night before I put the last few tools away, but we did it!  We got ALL of the new shutters hung, and they look great! Here’s a before pic: And here (drumroll, please…) is an after picture: Thank you to Steve, who is definitely more than an electrician and helped [...]

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I know I’ve been a little absent, but it’s for a very good reason! We spent the weekend getting things done.  A LOT of things. The first item on the list was finishing the second window box.  I finished painting and assembled it and then Dan helped me mount it to the house.  Yipee!  Only [...]

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Finally, we finished our first window “box”! I’ve been wanting window boxes for the front of the house, but have found that the ones wide enough for our windows are waaaayyyy out of our price range.  Coincidentally, as I was lamenting this, our March issue of The Family Handiman arrived.  And in it, a quick [...]

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Oh, how I hate to pay for something unnecessarily. Months ago, Dan bought us a new garage door opener.  It’s unlike the current opener in that a) it isn’t rusted and rickety; b) it has more than one remote; and c) it has safety sensors – you know, those things that are REQUIRED BY CODE [...]

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So.  After a quick coat of primer the night before, and some painstaking trimming to make things level, we were ready to install the bathtub walls last night.  I wanted things to go smoothly and quickly, so I prepared while Dan was still at work. I cut up the cardboard box that the walls came [...]

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…the newest HGTV show:  Dan and Susan’s Bathroom Remodeling Adventure It’s coming along, although not as quickly as we’d hoped.  But what do you expect when you have to work around four little ones?  We do most of our work in the evenings after the kids are in bed (for obvious reasons). When you factor [...]

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What originally had been a regrout project has turned into a partial bath remodel.  Now I wish we could just do the whole thing. Here’s what we started with this weekend after trying to remove some grout: And then we went to this: to this: to this: and finally, to this: While we’ll continue to [...]

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This weekend was an unusually busy one. We kicked things off with the whole, dog bloat-kid puking thing late Friday night.  That was fun! On Saturday it snowed.  Again.  A lot.  A FOOT.  I had thought that we’d already seen as much at one time that we’d see.  Ha.  Oh, and we’re due more this [...]

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