When I pinned a portion of the lyrics to Duran Duran’s song “Future Past” on my Twitter feed on December 31, 2021, little did I know they would serve as a requiem for the site. If you’ve not been following the Twitter saga, gazillionaire Elon Musk, who seems to have more money than sense, purchased Twitter and has been burning it all to the ground in the course of a few weeks. I have been…
Hubby and I have had a crazy-busy couple of months with getting the house ready to sell. So busy, in fact, that I haven’t had any time to blog. We’ve finally wrapped up all of our home renovations and are in the selling part of the process. I wanted to write a final post highlighting a few of the more interesting projects we finished. During September and October, we painted, and painted some more, and…
September was a rough month. Aside from the mad rush to finish projects in the house to get it ready for sale, we were devastated by the sudden loss of Aleksandr, our dear, sweet dog of twelve years. Long-time readers of my blog know that I have referred to Aleksandr by alternate names, including Doggle Woggle. I’ve treated our dog like our kids on my blog, not using his actual name for privacy reasons. (Not…
Work continues on the house at a breakneck pace in between handling other life events. I have moved, so Erik has been tackling the home improvement projects on his own. Prior to my moving in with family for our transition between the old house and a new one, I wanted to make sure most of the big furniture was moved out of the house and all the smaller stuff was packed and moved. With the…
Normally I post to my blog on Saturday or Sunday. It is now Tuesday. We have entered crunch time with our home improvements because we filled out the paperwork to list our home for sale. Eeek! Erik and I are making steady progress, but there’s still so much to do. To say that we are stressed is the understatement of the decade. Thankfully, there is an end in sight. Speaking of decades, I thought we…