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Ahhh yes, a holiday weekend. A great way to get projects accomplished with that one extra day off! We kicked the long weekend off in style. The new Cajun restaurant at the end of the street opened up the weekend before, so we rounded up a few neig [Read More]

This past weekend I finished up the last major portion of the insulation. With a little help from my neighbor and the insulation blower that he had laying around in his garage, we knocked it out in about 4 hours. Although, half of the time was spent [Read More]

I’ve heard people say that Los Angeles has no seasons. Those people have never lived in Los Angeles.We have seasons.We have Awards Season We have the Bowl SeasonWe have Fire Seasonand we have the Holiday Shopping SeasonAnd in between each season t [Read More]

Last week I had a visit from an energy efficiency specialist from our local energy company, MidAmerican. MidAmerican has a program called EnergyAdvantage: Save Some Green. Homeowners who get their electricity and natural gas from MidAmerican can ca [Read More]

Last night was our final run through before the dry wall goes up (being installed as I write this). So we scrambled around until about 1:00 in the morning finishing up all the little details. One of which was, using orange fire-foam to seal off the r [Read More]

M & I took our weekly trip to the home improvement store today…and drooled over the kitchens, drooled over the leaded glass doors, drooled over insulation. Ok, maybe not drooled over the insulation, but definitely spent more time in that a [Read More]

The long anticipated, eagerly awaited day finally came today. I’m talking about insulating our attic. Finally did that. Never want to do it again. Last fall I purchased 76 bags of cellulose insulation at Lowes. It sat in the basement for a yea [Read More]