I’ve been making steady progress scraping up the solidified carpet padding from days of yore. Here are some pictures of the past two weeks’ progress:

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Yup! And they’re amazingly yummy! We were invited to participate in a cookie exchange to benefit The Beacon, a women’s shelter in Des Moines. The idea was that each person would bring two dozen homemade cookies. One dozen would go to the shelter and the other dozen would get shared with […]

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When Brandon and I learned how much more efficiently a wood burning stove would heat our house than an open fireplace, we were very eager to try it out. Neither of us had any experience with a stove, though. Brandon had grown up with a fireplace, so he had that experience to go […]

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Or perhaps a large angry relative of the mantis come to avenge her death? Nope, it’s just Kelli in her new respirator!

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I have been wanting to get a heat gun and start stripping the woodwork in our house.  Several people have said that I HAVE to get a respirator mask if I’m going to do that, so I went shopping around on Ebay today and here’s what I ended up buying:
 A 1500W 2 Speed Motor Heat […]

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