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It seems that each year we perform yet another home improvement project. This time, we did a landscaping project in the back yard. The project was simple. We wanted to stop the encroachment of crab grass from our neighbor behind us, so we created a rocked area with bushes along the entire […]

Jessi and I have almost finished our first home improvement project for the year at our house. What was once the formal living room has now become an office. It has been many things over the last few years, including a toy room, but we think we’ve finally found a way to put […]

Jessi’s been busy on a couple of home improvement projects.  While I was gone on a business trip, she used some of the leftover paint from the basement project and painted the upstairs bathroom.  This was a significant milestone for us, since the bathroom has the only walls in the entire house that haven’t seen […]

It only took a couple of months, but we’re mostly done with the basement. Actually we’ve been mostly done for some time now, but we finally got around to taking pictures last night. Every day we tackle a few more small projects. Last night for example, we put the cat holes in […]

It has taken a long time to get going, but we are finally finishing the basement. I have all kinds of pictures in the photo galleries, so you should probably head on over to check on our progress.

There’s not much in the way of captions yet, but I hope to be adding them over […]

We have been remodeling Dmitri’s room recently. Dmitri’s been asking for a theme that shows off the solar system and space exploration, so we convinced a friend of the family who specializes in interior design to help. Jessi and I have been doing the easy work. For starters, I took down the […]

When we first looked at this lot back on August 7, 2001, one of the first things we noticed was the cute little tree in the front yard. It was marked as a purple ash. The most striking thing about the purple ash is that in the fall, the leaves turn a deep […]