How did this shopping cart full of miscellaneous hardware come to be parked in our yard for three months? Therein lies a tale. One day…
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How did this shopping cart full of miscellaneous hardware come to be parked in our yard for three months? Therein lies a tale. One day…
I’ve also been reflecting on our decision to stay in place for Isaac. Was it the right choice? There’s room for disagreement even in our…
It’s been well over a year since we moved to our new house, and the pangs of regret are finally starting to ebb. Regrets? Well,…
I mentioned last January that we got stuck with a big ($500) utility bill that month. There was no question in my mind that our…
Saturday morning I was out early conducting a short tour of the Lafitte Corridor. I was skeptical about how many people would be up for…
It started one Sunday in early September. Xy and Persephone were out on a shopping trip, and I had just left on a bike ride…
Maybe it was the caffeine. And the lack of food. Or the physical exertion late in the day. Or just my old overactive mind. In…
I’m taking this week off work to get some things done around the house. My main objective is to repaint the porch. As I noted…
I recently got our energy bill for the period covering the recent cold snap: $500! Granted that was some record-setting weather but still… $500! Ouch.…
The fumigation we’d originally planned for early December has finally been accomplished, and I must say despite the hassle that it’s better to complete than…
By strange coincidence, I found myself watching The Big Chill Friday night. It’s one of those super-famous movies that I’ve just somehow never seen. Alas,…
Friday night my daughter stabbed me in the eye. Not intentionally — she was just waving her arm around. Her little finger somehow got past…
Overnight New Orleans got pounded by heavy, heavy rain for several hours. Also some serious gusts. We lost power for a while during the night…
We’re having our house tented for fumigation to kill off some drywood termites. It’s kind of a pain, because we have to relocate three cats,…
We are still unpacking. Many thanks (again) to my mother-in-law for her painstakingly accurate labels. But three weeks after the move, we are down to…
I feel like I’m exhaling and relaxing for the first time since — when was it? — late July. That’s when the idea of moving…
I’m gearing up to sign a bunch of papers in about an hour and a half. First we’re closing on the sale of our old…
No, I’m not feeling particularly grumpy. Quite the opposite. We are settling in and making good progress on unpacking. We’ll close the deal soon and…
After a couple weeks of little to no activity, we got three offers on our house yesterday. There’s a long way to go to actually…