Home and Dollars

Last Christmas my folks gave us some money to purchase shades for our windows, we finally got around to spending some of that money.  We pu...

When we built our house 4 years ago we had to bring in a ridiculous about of fill for our driveway.  As a result we had/have issues with the...

I received an email from Aria Cahill regarding this infograph . Seems like some good information and another reason I am happy we were able ...

After reading an article in newspaper about radon in the Twin Cities, Jen thought we should test our basement (since we had just put in a g...

We are working on finishing the basement, we needed to make some room in the family room so we could lay out the carpet.  I thought it...

We had our required septic pumping (every 3 years) and all went well.  Not a big deal, and it was good to have such a critical part of our h...

Received our property tax statement for this year and the estimated valuation for next year... The value of our house: 2011 - 390k 2012 ...

Well it has been two years (didn't burn as much the first year) since we built the house, so it is time to have the chimney cleaned and ...

Received our MN Property Tax rebate.  $940 on a tax bill of just under $5000.  That is pretty nice, does that mean that we didn't make a...

Ran into some problems with winter with exploding pipes in the garage. I went to turn on the water to the garage faucet and was met with a ...

The homemade pull-up bar I constructed. 1/2 inch vertical pipes, and a 3/4 inch horizontal bar. Couldn't find a 3/4 inch flange to att...

So needless to say it has been awhile. Jen and I have had a busy life the last couple weeks. We introduced our new son, Nicholas, into the...

Looks like Lighthouse is going to have to come out and do some work... Like jack hammering up all the surface concrete they poured. I just...

This is the kitchen table that we put together for about $30. We went to Basset Furniture to look around and found this table top in the cl...

While Jen was working on seeding I was working on putting in edging, landscape fabric and rock down around the house. You haven't lived...

Here is the the hillside that runs next to our driveway. The driveway had to be brought up to grade with many dump trucks of fill... We st...

I am also building some shelves in the basement to hold our copious amounts of "stuff". FYI the top shelf is still in progress.....

We put the mailbox up Sunday night. It was pretty cold and the ground was hard, but it went up without too much trouble.

90% or our "stuff" is now in the new house. It is pretty amazing how much stuff one (or two) acquire in such a short amount of ti...

The house is ours as of yesterday. There are still a few things that contractors will be stopping back to finish. We started moving some st...