It was another weekend of Jaime working this weekend. I dislike these weekends for a lot of reasons but one of them is logistics. With Jaime gone, I’m pretty limited as to what I can do (pretty much the same way she’s limited every weekday!) since I need to watch Aidan and the dogs. Fortunately, […]

On our first walk through of our house, I got excited about our kitchen. All the appliances were stainless steel Frigidaire units with the exception of the stainless Dacor convection oven.
Shortly after we moved in we realized there was something wrong with the convection oven. The circuit breaker for it had been switched off […]

Many of you know that not so deeply hidden inside of me is a Clark W Griswold. This weekend he surfaced when I attempted to light the house with Christmas lights.
The initial plan was simple, not animatronics or statues, but extensive, many surface illuminated. I had planned on lighting the gutters, all the hedges, the […]

We picked out our Christmas tree last night. If we didn’t do it last night we would have been doomed to wait until at least Monday when Jaime and I could go together. This isn’t exactly a boon Christmas with the baby coming and Jaime taking time off work so we were looking for trees […]

I’m beginning to think that steam heating has an element of black magic to it. In some ways its great. It produces heat quickly by having this big steel contraption just radiate heat into the room. The steam also tends to keep the humidity levels a little bit higher than say, forced air. Some things […]