It was in the 90s today, but that didn’t stop me from turning my space heater on full blast at work and sipping hot chocolate this afternoon. My office building has a very “unique” HVAC system, unique being the nice word. If I’m comfortable, the people upstairs are hot and if I’m cold, the people [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Posted in NC, food, tagged 100 mile diet, dairy, diet, eat, eatting, economy, farm, farmer, food, fuel, health, local, Local Harvest, locally, meats, produce, shop on June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m very intersted in trying the 100-mile diet out once we have our kitchen back in working order again. I know I’m missing out on prime local food options right now during the summer, but I hope that we can give this a whirl in a few months. The website has all of the information [...]
Yowza, look at those pantries!
Posted in Family, Home Sweet Home, Rambling, tagged black, bottle, cabinet, canned items, counter, countertop, cupboard, cure, DIY, environmentalist, food, functional, giant, hair, Home, hot, House, kitchen, Marine Corps, monetary, organization, pantry, pull out, recycle, remodel, renovation, reuse, shampoo, shelving, subway, temporary, tile, toes, upcycle, white on June 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Can I just say that these two cabinets are the best part of our new kitchen? Look at all of the storage space we’re going to have with them! And see that thing kind of in the middle that looks like one of those electric toy racecar ramps? It does this:
Now we will be able [...]
Keeping Flexible (During a Remodel)
Posted in Home Sweet Home, food, tagged backsplash, bathroom, black, Budget, cabinets, cheap, contrast, countertop, cupboards, DC, flexibility, flexible, frugal, Home, House, ikea, inexpensive, kitchen, outlet, paint, product, Raleigh, remodel, reno, renovation, sink, subway tile, tile, white on June 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m really learning what it means to be flexible during this kitchen renovation. What I think we’re going to end up with (but really, who knows at this point) is very different than I originally pictured in my mind. Part of that is due to a limited product selection. Can you believe Raleigh doesn’t have [...]
For Lindsay!
Posted in Home Sweet Home, Rambling, tagged alien powers, big box store, cabinets, ceramic, chaos, countertops, crystal skull, cupboards, dentist, dryer, field stone, flag stone, hardware, Home, House, Indiana Jones, kitchen, landscape, laundry center, lowe's, night guard, outdoors, outside, progress, Raleigh, refrigerator, remodel, renovation, set of teeth, sink, stackable, stacked, stacking, stone wall, tenth, unveil, utter, washer, waterford crystal, wedding anniversary, white on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In honor of my dear friend Lindsay’s 10th (!) wedding anniversary, I’ve decided to unveil my new set of teeth today. I know she was on the edge of her seat. Tada!
What is that, you ask? Well, those are my teeth, at least in ceramic form. Why do I need them? Well, they’re what the [...]
Kitchen Reno Update
Posted in Home Sweet Home, tagged backsplash, black, Budget, butcher block, cabinets, cheap, counter, countertops, craigslist, cupboards, dishes, dishwasher, dryer, floor, flooring, free, fridge, green, hand, hardware, Home, House, idea, inexpensive, inspiration, intrigue, kitchen, lower, new set of teeth, oak, online, paint, pantry, photograph, photos, refrigerator, remodel, renovation, stacking, storage, store, stove, subway tile, vct, washer, white, work on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I know I promised pics of my new set of teeth, but when I got home last night and saw this, I decided I had to adjust my plans a bit. Don’t worry Lindsay, I’ll get to them. Just stay intrigued a little bit longer.
I know it’s a mess, but it’s progress. And look! We [...]
From the Mountains to the Sea
Posted in NC, tagged appalachia, appalachian, Asheville, bad habit, beach, bike, black mountain, branches, brick, camera, cape fear, chair, chicken, church, color, country, dunes, editing, farm, field, fountain, goat, grass, hills, historic, Home, House, images, kid, lake, landscapre, lighthouse, mansion, moss, mountains, NC, North Carolina, ocean, ocracoke, old, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pink, process, river, scenic, sea, state, Statue, teeth, Travel, tree, upload, urn, wall, water, wilmington, year on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have a bad habit of forgetting to turn my camera off after I upload images to my computer. I get so involved in the editing process that I forget that the camera is still on and it’s getting the life slowly sucked out of its batteries by the computer that it’s hooked up to.
So, [...]
Happy Father’s Day, Dad!
Posted in Family, tagged children, Family, father, fathers day, holiday on June 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Circa 1984
Dad, you did and are doing a great job- Love you!
Swollen Hand and Scrabble Crafting
Posted in Family, Home Sweet Home, NC, Rambling, food, tagged bee, bite, bracelets, burger, cheap eats, collage, craft, crafts, crafty, DIY, doctor, downtown, Farmer's Market, glenwood, grill, ground, hand, handmade, hives, hornet, itchy, jewelry, joint, locally grown, magazine strips, magazines, mojos, mosaic, NC, neighborhoods, North Carolina, pendants, Raleigh, recycle, reuse, rocks, scrabble, shadow box, sick, skin, sting, stone, stones, stung, swollen, tight, tomatoes, tree, underbrush, upcycle, urgent care, wall, warehouse, wasp, woods, work, yellow jacket on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So Matthew decided on Thursday to get some rocks out of the woods to continue building our stone wall. As he was picking his way through the underbrush, he moved a fallen tree. Apparently, yellow jackets make their hives on the ground, under logs and don’t like it when you move those logs. At least [...]
How We’re Saving Some Green
Posted in Budget, Home Sweet Home, NC, Raleigh, Rambling, food, tagged aldi, appetite, avocado, avocadoes, big lots, bike, bike riding, biker, brand namde, Budget, car, carpool, carts, climbing, comparison shopping, cook out, coworkers, craving, cut back, discount, finance, financial, food, gas, gas prices, green, grocer, grocery, grocery list, ground beef, gym, hamburger buns, harris teeter, hot dog buns, hot dogs, inexpensive, kraft macaroni and cheese, long story, lower prices, money, multitask, mushrooms, onions, produce, pumps, rent, salt, sausage, save, saving, sugar diet, sweets, teenage boy, teenager, wal-mart, walmart, website, work out, working out, workout, zucchini on June 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So with gas prices continuing to climb, I’ve started to look at ways we can reasonably cut back our budget in other areas since I’m not ready to give up my 5am gym sessions to carpool to work and Leslie’s not ready to give up sleep for 5am gym carpools. I’ve considered riding my bike [...]
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