It has been way too long since I last posted anything on here. It isn't because we aren't interesting or haven't done anything interesting. It is simply because I have been busy - we have been busy, and posting on the blog has, quite frankly, moved to the bottom of the priority list. But, I am going to try and be better (pretty sure I have said this before) about posting about what we have been up to. Hopefully I can stick with it!
I can't possibly recap the past 6 months (yes, it has been that long, and I did think about trying), so I will start with the present (roughly) and go from there!
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Monday, March 28, 2011
Zoku
Have you heard of a Zoku? I hadn't until I received one for Christmas from my bother-in-law and his fiancée. It's a popsicle maker that makes popsicles in approximately 7 minutes! It's wonderful and so simple. Freeze the core, insert sticks, pour juice, wait until the juice freezes, use special tool to loosen the popsicles, and tada! So awesome. We have only made simple orange juice popsicles, but I look forward to getting creative with different colors and flavors as well. I have a feeling we will be using this all summer.
You should check it out!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
just a note
Sorry I keep changing the look of my blog. I like BIG, and this is the only way I can make my pictures bigger and still be able to fit them into the alloted space. However, my header is now too big. I have resized the picture so many times and I can't seem to get it to look right (I want it to be long and skinny). I'm not savvy enough to know how to change the HTML code or whatever instead of resizing the picture, or maybe I need to do both. Maybe I'm making it too complicated. Can anyone help me?
Monday, December 7, 2009
November pics
I have felt a little A-D-D since December hit. I just finished uploading pictures to the Picasa web album from November, and I also put some on there from December.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Some Homemade Fun
My friend Nikki and I have been working on a craft blog. If you are interested in crafting or decorating, have a look!
http://somehomemadefun.blogspot.com/
http://somehomemadefun.blogspot.com/
Monday, January 19, 2009
I Pledge
This is a good video worth watching:
http://www.oprah.com/media/20090119_tows_ipledge
I'm feeling pretty inspired as I look forward to the inauguration tomorrow. This video has a good message regardless of what party you support.
http://www.oprah.com/media/20090119_tows_ipledge
I'm feeling pretty inspired as I look forward to the inauguration tomorrow. This video has a good message regardless of what party you support.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Christmas is in the air!
Christmas tree shopping...
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our first snow...
our first snow...
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This is just a cute Christmas picture.
I caught Andrew trying to take ornaments off of the tree.
(Andrew strategically placed the bears under the tree)
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only 24 more days...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
October pictures
I finally posted some pictures for the month of October in the picture album...
http://picasaweb.google.com/heatheranngarrison/October2008#
http://picasaweb.google.com/heatheranngarrison/October2008#
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Our New Ride
To make a long story short, we said goodbye to the S-10 over the weekend and welcomed the newest member to our family, a 2005 Honda Pilot.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
grass-cuttin' fool
Tonight I attempted to use the weed wacker to chop down the grass along our fence line. I'll admit, it has gotten out of control. Why? Because we've haven't chopped it down at all this year and the mower doesn't get to it. The last couple of summer's I have gotten down on my bum and pulled the grass along the fenceline just to clean it up a little. I tended to get carried away and I didn't particularly care for the barren look when I was done. So, tonight it was the weed wacker. It took me about 5 minutes (or less) to realize that what I was trying to do wasn't working at all. The grass was being chopped a little, but not nearly enough, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out if it was a horrible weed wacker that we owned or if I was doing something wrong. I have seen many a neighbor use a weed wacker along their fence and it seems to do a pretty good job. I just didn't get it. I thought about pulling the grass, but I didn't really want to and, like I said, I didn't care for that look. I was determined to figure this out. (Loren was out running errands so I couldn't ask him for advice.) Sooooo...I went inside and came back out with a pair of scissors. How else was I going to trim the grass without pulling it? I only did 1/3 of the inside of the fence, because towards the end of the one side I came to 3 realizations: 1) This is incredibly tedious and taking way too long, 2) The grass is going to grow back, and I'm not sure I want to be following Loren around with a pair of scissors once a week when he mows...and 3) I cut so much off of the blades of grass that the remaining grass is probably going to die anyway.
What a waste of time!
What a waste of time!
Monday, July 21, 2008
Trans Fats
I remember several years ago when someone I worked with at the Y talked about partially hydrogenated oil and trans fats and how this person didn't consume them, avoided them entirely. I kind of smiled and said "good for you" as I continued eating my then trans fat laden Fritos (Fritos have since become trans fat free). I knew they weren't good for me, but didn't really care or wasn't willing to give up some of my favorite snacks. It wasn't over night, but I eventually started to really pay attention to food labels. I think it happened more once I moved to Carmel...maybe because I wasn't working and had more time on my hands, maybe it was because I was pregnant, or maybe it was even once Andrew was born. I don't really remember. All I know is that now when I go shopping I look for partially hydrogenated oil on the food label and if it has it, I don't buy it (99.9% of the time). It's becoming easier to buy foods that don't contain this ingredient. One reason being: after I've read so many labels I know which foods have it and which foods don't and another reason being: food manufacturers are starting to remove it from their products (makes you wonder why, doesn't it?) When asked about why I don't eat it, all I can come up with is "It's bad." That's enough reason for me most of the time, but I wonder sometimes what it is that makes it bad. It's hard finding good articles on the subject or ones that I understand, but I found this one....(click on the title to read the entire article...I stopped short once I got the gist of it; I also highlighted some of the main details in red.)
What's Wrong with Partially Hydrogenated Oils?
By Eric Armstrong
Why Fats are Important
The first thing to understand about fats is that the essential fatty acids they contain are truly essential. They are the "active ingredient" in every bodily process you can name:
brain cell function and nervous system activity
hormones and intra-cellular messengers
glandular function and immune system operation
hemoglobin oxygen-transport system
cell wall function:
passing oxygen into the cell
passing nutrients into the cell
keeping foreign bodies out of the cell
digestive-tract operation
assimilating nutrients
blocking out allergens
In short, the essential fatty acids (contained mostly in polyunsaturated oils) are the most important nutrients there are -- more important than vitamins, minerals, or even proteins. Because, without them, there is no life. They are the substance and foundation of life energy.
What is Hydrogenation?
Hydrogenation is the process of heating an oil and passing hydrogen bubbles through it. The fatty acids in the oil then acquire some of the hydrogen, which makes it more dense. If you fully hydrogenate, you create a solid (a fat) out of the oil. But if you stop part way, you a semi-solid partially hydrogenated oil that has a consistency like butter, only it's a lot cheaper.
Because of that consistency, and because it is cheap, it is a big favorite as a butter-substitute among "food" producers. It gives their products a richer flavor and texture, but doesn't cost near as much as it would to add butter.
Note:
Until the 1970's, food producers used coconut oil to get that buttery flavor and texture. The American obesity epidemic began when it was replaced with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil -- most often soybean oil. For more information, see Coconut Oil and Palm Kernel Oil: Miracle Medicine and Diet Pill.
What's Wrong with Hydrogenation?
Unlike butter or virgin coconut oil, hydrogenated oils contain high levels of trans fats. A trans fat is an otherwise normal fatty acid that has been "transmogrified", by high-heat processing of a free oil. The fatty acids can be double-linked, cross-linked, bond-shifted, twisted, or messed up in a variety of other ways.
The problem with trans fats is that while the "business end" (the chemically active part) is messed up, the "anchor end" (the part that is attached to the cell wall) is unchanged. So they take up their position in the cell wall, like a guard on the fortress wall. But like a bad guard, they don't do their job! They let foreign invaders pass unchallenged, and they stop supplies at the gates instead of letting them in.
In short, trans fats are poisons, just like arsenic or cyanide. They interfere with the metabolic processes of life by taking the place of a natural substance that performs a critical function. And that is the definition of a poison. Your body has no defense against them, because they never even existed in our two billion years of evolution -- so we've never had the need or the opportunity to evolve a defense against them.
But the worst part is that in the last stages of oil processing (or "refining"), the oil is literally steam distilled to remove its odor. So it doesn't smell. But a hydrogenated oil is much worse than rancid butter. So it it did smell, it would smell worse than the most rancid butter you've ever seen. (And that goes for all refined oils, not just the hydrogenated ones. It's just that hydrogenated oils are everywhere in the American diet.) So the next time you see "partially hydrogenated oil" on a label, think "rancid butter".
Partially Hydrogenated Oils Make You Fat!
Partially hydrogenated oils will not only kill you in the long term by producing diseases like multiple sclerosis and allergies that lead to arthritis, but in the meantime they will make you fat!
You Eat More
It's not like you have any choice in the matter. Remember that the essential fatty acids are vital to every metabolic function in your body. You will get the quantity of essential fatty acids that you need to sustain life, no matter what. You will not stop being hungry until you do.
If you are consuming lots of saturated fats, you really have no choice but to become fat, because saturated fats contain only small quantities of the polyunsaturated fats that contain the essential fatty acids you need. The key to being thin, then, is to consume foods containing large amounts of polyunsaturated oils. (Those foods include fish, olives, nuts, and egg yolks.) Over the long term, those foods remove your sense of hunger.
Note:
The difference between a "fat" and an "oil" is temperature. A "fat" is a lipid that is solid at room temperature. An "oil" is one that is liquid at room temperature. Both are lipids (or "oil/fat"). Change the temperature, and you can convert an oil into a fat, or vice versa.
Partially hydrogenated oils make you gain weight the same way that saturated fats do -- by making you consume even more fat to get the the essential fatty acids you need. But partially hydrogenated fats are even worse. Not only do they produce disease over they long term, but they interfere with the body's ability to ingest and utilize the good fats!
Picture it like this. The trans fats are now the guards along the watchtower. The essential fatty acids (the support troops) are waiting outside to get into the fort (the cell), so they can be distributed along the watchtower (the cell wall). But the guards won't let them in! So they have to find someplace to stay in town. Over time, more and more troops are finding lodging in town. So new houses (fat cells) have to built to keep them in. The town grows more and more swelled with troops (fat), and it gets bigger and bigger (fatter). It's not a pretty picture at all, when you realize that the town is your belly, buns, face, and neck.
Your Metabolism Slows
Worse, most partially hydrogenated oil is partially hydrogenated soybean oil. That's a problem, because soybean oil depresses the thyroid--which lowers your energy levels, makes you feel less like exercising, and generally makes you fatter!
Of course, soybeans have been used for centuries in the Orient--but mostly as the basis for soy sauce and tofu. Asians didn't have soy milk, soy burgers, soy this and soy that. Most of all, they never used concentrated essence of soybean, in the form of soybean oil. And they didn't hydrogenate it, and they didn't use it in everything.
Walking down supermarket aisles in America, you find product after product with partially hydrogenated oil--often in products you would never expect. But why not? After all, it's cheaper than butter. And it's not illegal. Yet. When you eat out, restaurant breads and fried foods are loaded with stuff.
As a result, Americans are consuming soybean oil--partially hydrogenated soybean oil--in virtually everything they eat. It's no wonder that America is experiencing epidemic levels of diabetes, obesitiy, heart disease, and cancer. (.....)
What's Wrong with Partially Hydrogenated Oils?
By Eric Armstrong
Why Fats are Important
The first thing to understand about fats is that the essential fatty acids they contain are truly essential. They are the "active ingredient" in every bodily process you can name:
brain cell function and nervous system activity
hormones and intra-cellular messengers
glandular function and immune system operation
hemoglobin oxygen-transport system
cell wall function:
passing oxygen into the cell
passing nutrients into the cell
keeping foreign bodies out of the cell
digestive-tract operation
assimilating nutrients
blocking out allergens
In short, the essential fatty acids (contained mostly in polyunsaturated oils) are the most important nutrients there are -- more important than vitamins, minerals, or even proteins. Because, without them, there is no life. They are the substance and foundation of life energy.
What is Hydrogenation?
Hydrogenation is the process of heating an oil and passing hydrogen bubbles through it. The fatty acids in the oil then acquire some of the hydrogen, which makes it more dense. If you fully hydrogenate, you create a solid (a fat) out of the oil. But if you stop part way, you a semi-solid partially hydrogenated oil that has a consistency like butter, only it's a lot cheaper.
Because of that consistency, and because it is cheap, it is a big favorite as a butter-substitute among "food" producers. It gives their products a richer flavor and texture, but doesn't cost near as much as it would to add butter.
Note:
Until the 1970's, food producers used coconut oil to get that buttery flavor and texture. The American obesity epidemic began when it was replaced with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil -- most often soybean oil. For more information, see Coconut Oil and Palm Kernel Oil: Miracle Medicine and Diet Pill.
What's Wrong with Hydrogenation?
Unlike butter or virgin coconut oil, hydrogenated oils contain high levels of trans fats. A trans fat is an otherwise normal fatty acid that has been "transmogrified", by high-heat processing of a free oil. The fatty acids can be double-linked, cross-linked, bond-shifted, twisted, or messed up in a variety of other ways.
The problem with trans fats is that while the "business end" (the chemically active part) is messed up, the "anchor end" (the part that is attached to the cell wall) is unchanged. So they take up their position in the cell wall, like a guard on the fortress wall. But like a bad guard, they don't do their job! They let foreign invaders pass unchallenged, and they stop supplies at the gates instead of letting them in.
In short, trans fats are poisons, just like arsenic or cyanide. They interfere with the metabolic processes of life by taking the place of a natural substance that performs a critical function. And that is the definition of a poison. Your body has no defense against them, because they never even existed in our two billion years of evolution -- so we've never had the need or the opportunity to evolve a defense against them.
But the worst part is that in the last stages of oil processing (or "refining"), the oil is literally steam distilled to remove its odor. So it doesn't smell. But a hydrogenated oil is much worse than rancid butter. So it it did smell, it would smell worse than the most rancid butter you've ever seen. (And that goes for all refined oils, not just the hydrogenated ones. It's just that hydrogenated oils are everywhere in the American diet.) So the next time you see "partially hydrogenated oil" on a label, think "rancid butter".
Partially Hydrogenated Oils Make You Fat!
Partially hydrogenated oils will not only kill you in the long term by producing diseases like multiple sclerosis and allergies that lead to arthritis, but in the meantime they will make you fat!
You Eat More
It's not like you have any choice in the matter. Remember that the essential fatty acids are vital to every metabolic function in your body. You will get the quantity of essential fatty acids that you need to sustain life, no matter what. You will not stop being hungry until you do.
If you are consuming lots of saturated fats, you really have no choice but to become fat, because saturated fats contain only small quantities of the polyunsaturated fats that contain the essential fatty acids you need. The key to being thin, then, is to consume foods containing large amounts of polyunsaturated oils. (Those foods include fish, olives, nuts, and egg yolks.) Over the long term, those foods remove your sense of hunger.
Note:
The difference between a "fat" and an "oil" is temperature. A "fat" is a lipid that is solid at room temperature. An "oil" is one that is liquid at room temperature. Both are lipids (or "oil/fat"). Change the temperature, and you can convert an oil into a fat, or vice versa.
Partially hydrogenated oils make you gain weight the same way that saturated fats do -- by making you consume even more fat to get the the essential fatty acids you need. But partially hydrogenated fats are even worse. Not only do they produce disease over they long term, but they interfere with the body's ability to ingest and utilize the good fats!
Picture it like this. The trans fats are now the guards along the watchtower. The essential fatty acids (the support troops) are waiting outside to get into the fort (the cell), so they can be distributed along the watchtower (the cell wall). But the guards won't let them in! So they have to find someplace to stay in town. Over time, more and more troops are finding lodging in town. So new houses (fat cells) have to built to keep them in. The town grows more and more swelled with troops (fat), and it gets bigger and bigger (fatter). It's not a pretty picture at all, when you realize that the town is your belly, buns, face, and neck.
Your Metabolism Slows
Worse, most partially hydrogenated oil is partially hydrogenated soybean oil. That's a problem, because soybean oil depresses the thyroid--which lowers your energy levels, makes you feel less like exercising, and generally makes you fatter!
Of course, soybeans have been used for centuries in the Orient--but mostly as the basis for soy sauce and tofu. Asians didn't have soy milk, soy burgers, soy this and soy that. Most of all, they never used concentrated essence of soybean, in the form of soybean oil. And they didn't hydrogenate it, and they didn't use it in everything.
Walking down supermarket aisles in America, you find product after product with partially hydrogenated oil--often in products you would never expect. But why not? After all, it's cheaper than butter. And it's not illegal. Yet. When you eat out, restaurant breads and fried foods are loaded with stuff.
As a result, Americans are consuming soybean oil--partially hydrogenated soybean oil--in virtually everything they eat. It's no wonder that America is experiencing epidemic levels of diabetes, obesitiy, heart disease, and cancer. (.....)
Friday, July 18, 2008
Eggless Banana Bread
Andrew is allergic to eggs. Actually I don't know for sure if it is an allergy or an intollerance (apparently there's a difference), but whatever it is...if Andrew eats eggs he will vomit nonstop, beginning a couple hours after consuming the eggs, until it's all out of his system. Not pleasant. I'm not just talking about straight-up scrambled eggs. He can't have anything that is baked with eggs either. Trust me. I found out the hard way! It hasn't been hard to avoid eggs. I don't bake a lot of sweets (although, if Andrew could eat them I'd probably bake more) and I just read the labels before giving him any new foods. Pretty simple. However, I found myself with some extra overripe bananas today and instead of throwing them away, I decided to finally find an eggless banana bread recipe that I could use. I didn't search long, but I found one on some random website...recipezaar.com, I think. I tried it and to my amazement, it turned out pretty well! We'll see if Andrew likes it tomorrow, but I'm pretty pleased...and the batter tasted good, too!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Summer TV
There is nothing on TV during the summer! I watched both Celebrity Family Feud and America's Got Talent tonight. Yes, I admit it. America's Got Talent isn't bad, but I haven't watched it at all until tonight. Considering I love American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, I suppose it's only fitting that I watch America's Got Talent, right? So You Think You Can Dance is on during the summer, but that is the only show (other than The Real World) that I watch. I did see a preview last night for a new season of Big Brother that begins on Sunday. And yes, I'm excited. I will then find myself with a TV/tivo dilemma.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Crib recall update
The lovely folks at Jardine are going to give me a voucher to replace Andrew's recalled crib. We lucked out a little in that the voucher is actually going to be for $30 more than what we paid for our crib originally (they went with the highest retail price the crib ever sold for). They (and Babies R Us) are being nice by letting us purchase a crib now and then when we get the voucher we take it, along with the receipt for the new crib, into BRU and they will refund us. We pay the difference if we buy a crib that costs more than the value of the voucher. After going to BRU last night (we have to buy the new crib at Babies R Us or Toys R Us), I was extremely dissapointed because I didn't really like any of the cribs they had and for the most part I'd either be losing money by getting a much less expensive crib or I'd have to shell out some extra cash to buy a really expensive one. I ended up looking on the BRU website last night where I found several options in our price range. I finally made a decision and purchased one for the exact cost of the voucher we will be getting. We will have to eat the shipping costs, but when it's all said and done it will be worth it. Andrew has continued to sleep in his recalled crib, but all of next week we will be in Virginia where he will be sleeping in the pack 'n play. Hopefully it won't be long after we get back before the new one arrives.
This is his old crib, only in cherry. I will be sad to see it go.
This is Andrew's new crib. I decided I wished I hadn't gotten a white one the first time around.
This is his old crib, only in cherry. I will be sad to see it go.
This is Andrew's new crib. I decided I wished I hadn't gotten a white one the first time around.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Crib Recall!
I just found out that Andrew's crib has been recalled!!! Yikes! To those of you with children in cribs or who know people who have children in cribs, check out this website...
http://www3.toysrus.com/safety/prodRecalls/jardine-crib.cfm
and/or this website...
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08312.html
http://www3.toysrus.com/safety/prodRecalls/jardine-crib.cfm
and/or this website...
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08312.html
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Trader's Point Creamery
Since I haven't posted anything in a while and I coudn't think of anything witty or funny to say, I thought I would post a picture of some cows' rears...
No, really...Andrew and I took a fieldtrip to Trader's Point Creamery with our friends, the Cunninghams, a week ago after a 7:30 a.m. invitation (or was it even earlier than that?). It was a nice outdoor activity, but it wasn't exactly what we had all envisioned. We took the self-guided tour where we managed to get ourselves a little lost, or at least off-track, and trudged our strollers uphill on a gravel path to see a 300+ year-old tree. Woopee! The kids were as impressed as we were.
Andrew enjoyed being set free from the stroller to stare at the chickens...
and eating some organic, made-from-the-cows-in-the-picture (or others on the farm) raspberry icecream. Actually, Andrew didn't take to the icecream too much. He's pushing it away. Seriously?? I'm starting to wonder if he's actually my kid. Naaaa....I know he's mine.
Even though it wasn't what we had in mind, it was still a fun way to spend the morning outdoors experiencing new things. Thanks to the Cunninghams for inviting us! Maybe next time we'll go early (or late) enough to see some cows being milked!!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
cleaning up at the garage sales
This past weekend was our neighborhood garage sale. We didn't have a garage sale ourselves, and I initially had no desire to walk around and gawk and other people's stuff. But, then it dawned on me...I have a kid! And kid stuff can be expensive! Maybe I can find some cheap kid stuff at the garage sales! I loaded Andrew up in his wagon and we made our way around the neighborhood. I have to say our neighborhood was a pretty hoppin' place this weekend. Anyway, we ended up with a bucket of legos, a toy golf club set, a toy vacuum cleaner, a toy truck, another toy that's too difficult to explain, and a kid sized tent all for a whopping $13! $7 of that was for the tent. Granted, I later found out that one of the poles was a little broken, but some duck tape and something else (I haven't quite figured out what) should make it a little more sturdy. All in all the neighborhood garage sale was a success!
Monday, June 16, 2008
BPA-Free Nalgenes!
Have you heard any of the latest talk about BPA (Bisphenol-A) and plastics? Everything we hear about in the news is enough to drive any person crazy, but I thought that when it comes to potentially dangerous chemicals that appear in the plastic bottles and food containers we drink and eat from, why not play it a little safe? I'm not psycho crazy about it, just more conscious about it. I thought one (or a few) steps towards a BPA-free life was better than none. I recently purchased some BPA-free Nalgene bottles for Loren, myself, and even Andrew. They arrived today, hence the excitement. We were in the market for new Nalgenes anyway. I'm not even sure where our old ones are, but the new BPA-free ones are spectacular! Maybe I'm a little biased.
In case you want some reading material on Bisphenol-A or don't know what in the world I'm talking about, here you are...
(courtesy of my friend, Shanelle)
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(Here's Andrew enjoying his Nalgene)
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Spring Projects
Project #1: painting the office (again)
This room was a bright yellow when we moved in, then I painted it a dark (too dark) green, and now it is a light neutral color. I know, not very exciting, but trust me...the mood is very different when you walk into the room now.
Project #2: The porch
This was a big project which involved taking off all of the exterior boards, priming and painting them, ripping off the old screens (several of which had holes in them), replacing the screens, replacing boards that were partially rotten, priming and painting all of the boards (including what is inside the porch), and then putting it all back together again. That's a simple way of describing it. We replaced the screen door as well, which also had to be primed and painted.
Project #3: The Basement!!
Oh, the basement...this has been an ongoing project since, hmmm...we moved in. The basement quickly turned into a large dumping ground for random stuff and it was a great source of frustration for me. The project really started over the winter when we began going through stuff, organizing stuff and getting rid of stuff. Loren built some huge storage shelves in the utility room which helped out tremendously. Evan helped Loren install a "theater." The cleaning and organization has been an ongoing project for months. My goal was to get the basement to a livable state where we could hang out (Andrew included) and not feel overwhelmed with stuff. We have made a whole lot of progress! I started painting last week. The orange looks better in person. :)
This room was a bright yellow when we moved in, then I painted it a dark (too dark) green, and now it is a light neutral color. I know, not very exciting, but trust me...the mood is very different when you walk into the room now.
Project #2: The porch
This was a big project which involved taking off all of the exterior boards, priming and painting them, ripping off the old screens (several of which had holes in them), replacing the screens, replacing boards that were partially rotten, priming and painting all of the boards (including what is inside the porch), and then putting it all back together again. That's a simple way of describing it. We replaced the screen door as well, which also had to be primed and painted.
Project #3: The Basement!!
Oh, the basement...this has been an ongoing project since, hmmm...we moved in. The basement quickly turned into a large dumping ground for random stuff and it was a great source of frustration for me. The project really started over the winter when we began going through stuff, organizing stuff and getting rid of stuff. Loren built some huge storage shelves in the utility room which helped out tremendously. Evan helped Loren install a "theater." The cleaning and organization has been an ongoing project for months. My goal was to get the basement to a livable state where we could hang out (Andrew included) and not feel overwhelmed with stuff. We have made a whole lot of progress! I started painting last week. The orange looks better in person. :)
Friday, May 9, 2008
R.W. Knudsen
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