On the first day of August, we packed the car for an overnight stay and headed north to Iowa for my niece’s belated high-school graduation party.
The road trip—our first since the Covid quarantines started—was a strange mixture of excitement to be going somewhere and apprehension about wearing masks and keeping our soon-to-be college freshmen healthy. Also—in my heart, anyway—there was the added emotional weight of remembering the last time we had taken this very same trip.
If you’re somewhat addicted to HGTV like me, you’ve seen more than your fair share of kitchen remodels. At the beginning, the show host, contractor or homeowners stroll through the room, eyeing all the so-called problem areas with noses slightly turned up, and deem the project a “total gut job.”
We’ve talked about remodeling our kitchen for years. Honestly, I’m not sure why we decided to tackle it last year, other than the fact that when we got the outside of our house painted, we asked the Sherwin-Williams consultant who helped us with our exterior color scheme to give us …
How can it be nearing the end of July already? For a summer that contains so few activities, at least compared to a “normal” summer, time is certainly flying by. Here on the blog, it’s been a good season for lighter fare about gardening, home décor and (coming up soon) …
When everything in the world seems out of control, it’s comforting to step out the back door and immediately be captured by the orderliness of nature. Each plant in the flowerbed or vegetable patch blooms or bears fruit according to the schedule the Master Gardener drew up for it.
These walls can speak, actually. That’s the thought that crosses my mind as I travel from to room to room with the vacuum cleaner, sucking up the debris of the last week and a half (don’t judge) and wishing I was doing something else.