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The upstairs bathroom was so gross, it still isn't great, but it will do.  A major cleaning that started with taking out the framed tub glass doors and scraping the tub.  After a thorough cleaning, I gave the walls and ceiling a coat of paint.  Th [Read More]

It's currently 49°F here at the Prairie Box, and I'm freezing my buns off.  I'm at that lovely stage of pregnancy (the end!!) where nothing fits, not even my maternity clothes.  Since I didn't get big enough to wear maternity stuff until s [Read More]

A big incentive for me to get a lot of work done on the house this summer is the impending arrival of a guest on the 2nd of September. She's an old friend from Kansas City who'll be staying with me for nearly a week, while we both attend the North A [Read More]

Today I got rid of even more junk from this house. This beast was removed from my living room. Hip-Hip Hooray! I have to give a big thanks to M and to S (who lives a few door down) for helping to get it into the truck. It was 150+ pounds.The corner o [Read More]

I don't know about you, but I am sure glad that spring is here.I kicked off the first full day of spring by meeting with my contractor about the bathroom. I am hoping to start that project sometime next month.I also managed to get some of the junk ou [Read More]

I just shampooed the carpet in the foyer and um, the water is the color of mud.  That's ridiculously gross.  Rather than using the regular carpet shampoo (laden with chemicals and things I can't pronounce) I just used the Mrs. Meyers lavender dete [Read More]

Those who know me know that I'm sometimes frugal to a fault.nbsp; I won't say cheap, since I will buy expensive things when I think they're well made and will last a long time ($600 bookcasenbsp;and $750 HE washing machinenbsp;illustrates this).nbsp; [Read More]

Today I tackled the "back porch". Somehow, we can't seem to call it anything else, even though it's been enclosed for years, possibly originally. It's a small utility room that was tacked onto the back of the house. It has minimal insulation, no f [Read More]

I seem have caught a case of house bulemia recently. All of the clutter and chaos is just driving me mad. I've been going into too many exceptionally disgusting homes at work lately, and it's actually made me feel worse about ours. Kind of backwar [Read More]

. . . If you're an ant with a death wish.Got a call about 8:40 this morning. It was Grover*, the pest control guy: "Hi, I know I'm supposed to come on Monday, but I've had a cancellation this morning, is it all right if I come now?"Oh, sure, sure. So [Read More]

The weather has been shitty. I'm sorry, there's just no other word to describe it. All you need to do is pick up the papers to see what we have been dealing with in the Midwest. I think pretty much every day for the past couple weeks. We are fortuna [Read More]

Intro Maybe you haven’t been around here long enough to notice, but I don’t generally take on small projects. Mostly not even regular sized projects. And definitely hardly ever maintenance projects. I like fixing and/or building things. [Read More]

Say you have a bunch of old VHS tapes lying around, on which you’ve recorded various episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Or a drawer full of empty CD jewel cases. A bunch of old Zip disks perhaps? How 1995 of you me. All of t [Read More]

Do you see what that is? No, not the cute dog with the dopey expression on his face. Up a bit. In the glass? That bright circle in the middle? It's my flash bouncing off the window because it is so freakin' clean. It's taken three years but we The Gu [Read More]

My duty tonight was to empty the first floor of everything not nailed down so that a cleaning helper can wipe down walls and mop floors tomorrow. Eric tackled the massive molding (trim, not funky stuff) and random cut wood piles. We're packrats so m [Read More]

ARE YOU KIDDING??? There is no rest for a Loooooong time.Mom and I did rearrange the Great Room as planned. When Dad arrived later on Saturday, Mom helped my son with his Shakespeare lesson (I think it's great that he's doing Shakespeare in 8th grad [Read More]

We are STILL working on the kitchen. I'm having a difficult time arranging my pantry to where things will fit and still be readily available. I'm also still finding boxes of canned goods and such. I know that I have about 4 boxes left and that I wi [Read More]

Well, I know I promised pix last weekend, but the movers came Saturday, my parents came Saturday and now my house is full of boxes. My dad set up the bar. (BEFORE:) But it now has many more boxes of things that came from our kitchen. Mom and I are [Read More]

I swung open the door because I knew the mail was about to be delivered. I knew this because we still have no curtains on the first floor, and because the adorable vintage mailbox we bought on eBay has proved too small to hold the mail. So I opened t [Read More]

Although I feel like I worked all day on the house, I don't seem to have much to show for it. I spent the whole day cleaning the den. The painted woodwork had something all over it. It took most of the day to clean it off. I have yet to mop that [Read More]