So you think you want hardwood?

We made that mistake, too, and here’s the first installment of pictures and a heap of words to document the drama. We’ve been wanting to get rid of the beaten-to-crap, never-was-very-good-in-the-first-place carpeting in our house for a long time, and this summer we finally decided to do it. We got quotes for putting in more […]

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Be a patriot, don’t buy fireworks!

It makes me completely nuts to hear fireworks going off around here, living as we do in a neighborhood whose entrances are all prominently marked “CAUTION: FIRE DANGER ZONE. FIRE DANGER TODAY IS !” What are people thinking?!?! It was only 15 years ago that hundreds of houses burned and a bunch of people died […]

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