Hope everyone made it through the hurricane safe and sound! It got pretty windy here, but luckily we didn’t have any damage. We had a good scare around 9 pm when a tornado warning was issued for our county!! As soon as the notice came on the TV, we booked it into the basement with […]

Well, Armageddon Week continues here on the east coast.  In addition to grabbing the standard Glenn Beck/Zombie Apocalypse approved fallout shelter supplies like water, batteries and toilet paper, we thought it may be a smart idea to install a whole house surge protector in case our electricity were to surge on and off as it’s […]

With August winding down it’s time to put our landscaping work into high gear.  I sure don’t want a frozen 3 foot high pile of mulch on my lawn come December.  With grad school night classes starting up again for me this week and the Flyer’s season starting soon (I try to watch every single […]

Now to finish up our drip irrigation system installation… We just got more 1/2″ supply line a few days ago, so I’m going to finally get back to work on it.  I actually bought another 200 ft of hose just in case, because I’m not interested in running out again.  Irrigationdirect.com sells the supply line […]

Since we move in a year ago, we’ve been having trouble with downspout washout.  The rain runs through all of our mulch bed and washes out a good deal of it onto our sidewalk.  After every rain storm, I’d have to spend a good 30 minutes shoveling mulch and sand back into the flower bed.  […]

Back to work on our drip irrigation installation… To see Part 1, click here. So today I got an early start on the front flower beds with the goal of finishing up as much as I could until more drip irrigation hose arrives next week.  I’ll leave a small bare batch un-mulched so I can […]

Lots to do this week!! We got 3 cubic yards of black mulch and four flower beds to go! There are a couple of landscaping lessons we’ve learned since we moved into our new house.  The first and arguably the most important is the necessity of landscaping fabric on flower beds.  Unless you enjoy weeding, they are […]

While looking through our old photos from our first home, I stumbled upon these pictures of our old bathroom before the big renovation.  For the record, Lisa would like me to stress that this was MY bathroom and not OUR bathroom since it was rehabbed before we got married and she moved in. The before shots: […]

Now that the shed is done, we’re going to wrap up the flower beds around it by adding mulch.  Mulching a flower bed is a fairly quick and easy job, plus it will allow us to get a feel for how much we’ll need for the front of the house, which we haven’t done yet. […]

So we (mostly me) have been thinking about adding an egress to the basement. We had the option of incorporating a basement egress when we spec’d the house out, but we declined it since the cost was significant and we had other priorities. Why add an egress at all? Adding an egress will allow us […]