Isn’t that a nice, cozy fire? I’m so thrilled with our new fireplace insert. We need to buy some less expensive wood than the couple bundles we picked up at Quik Trip ($3.99 for a bundle of about eight pieces). I’ve been calling around to a few places and I’ll let you know what we […]

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Last night I wanted to see if I’d left the owner’s manual inside the fireplace, so I opened up the glass door and saw THIS!!!

This praying mantis had made itself nice and cozy inside our fireplace! It’s that time of year when mantids (the correct plural form of mantis - I looked it up!) […]

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The electricians are probably going to wrap up today. We stopped by the house to drop of a light fixture for the kitchen and we took a look around. Here are pictures!
The house is in various stages of disarray, but no worries!

This is the light fixture that was removed from the basement hallway. Pretty gross […]

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Brandon got a call yesterday afternoon that our chimney and fireplace company had a sudden opening and they’ll be able to install our wood burning stove insert and reconstruct our chimney TODAY!!!  This is great news and I can’t wait to go to the house after work today and check it out.  This comes right […]

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We had a very productive, very awesome morning with the two people we asked to give us quotes today.
First the electrician came and he was super professional, friendly, and really knew how to deal with our house. In fact, by the time I got in to work he had already emailed me a fully […]

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