Archive for November, 2009

Choosing a Carpet for the Basement

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

We have been working on finishing our basement.

It has been a very slow moving project.

We had the basement sheet-rocked in the spring by Mike the ‘morel mushroom guy‘.

We believed we would paint the basement ourselves, but for some reason…

We could not seem to get it done.

So a month ago, we hired a painter….

And now we [...]

Snow Falling on Strawberries

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

We awoke to snowfall this morning.

The first snowfall of the season…

You’ll have to excuse me for a few minutes while I run around like a ninny and take a few photos.

Believe it or not, I planted two flats of strawberries on Friday afternoon after I got home from work.
The strawberries were scheduled to be thrown [...]

A Few Fabulous Crumbling Houses That Need You!

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

On a recent drive through the Flint Hills, on my way home from my eldest son’s cross country meet, I meandered through some small towns and found a few great old houses to photograph.

This house was not crumbling at all and was clearly well loved by it’s current owners.

But this one was in dire need [...]