Tom and I visited yet another gem of Cleveland’s, its botanical garden. Mary and Steve and Erin are on Spring break this week and so we decided to get together and go. They were having an orchid exhibit, which was stunning. Here are some pictures. Doesn’t this one look like something straight out of “Alice…

Okay, not for real. This is just of the dog we are caring for for our neighbor. I told Tom we should joke that we just got a dog, and he said, “No, then everyone will think we’re never going to have kids.” Tom took these pictures and I just loved them so I thought…

I was going through my pictures cleaning them out when I came across this photo. I had to post it, because it really shows the drastic changes we have made in the kitchen. It’s always good to go back and realize just how much work we have put in already.

Before After. Ta daa! Sorry none of these pictures are great. It’s kind of hard to take pictures of flooring I’ve found. We’re thrilled with how it turned out. I love the way the tile works with the wall and cabinet color.

It’s funny to think back on how many times Brigette and I would murmur and complain as we were ‘forced’ to weed a row in the garden. We would yell about how we hated the garden, how we would never have a garden when we grew up, and how we were treated like slaves. Now…

Cleveland- 66.Luckily we have experienced 4 of them this week and there are 5 more on the forecast!

Criticism, faultfinding, evil speaking—these are of the spirit of the day. To hear tell, there is nowhere a man of integrity holding public office. All businessmen are crooks. The utilities are out to rob you. Even on campus there is heard so much the snide remark, the sarcastic jibe, the cutting down of associates—these, too…

(Hardibacker? -Check!) So Tom and I are on day three of our Tiling extravaganza. Day one included tearing up the existing floor and picking out tile. Day two consisted laying hardibacker. I think I mentioned previously, that I was really hopeful that we wouldn’t have to lay hardibacker, but everything we read suggested we did,…

For pictures of our latest project see “Our Playhouse.”

I thought it was going to be a breeze when we pulled up the linoleum and found this nice smooth, level, paper over plywood. We went to Lowe’s found some tile we both adored and came back. I did just a bit more research to make sure we had things under control and decided that…