The Residents of Historic Concord neighborhood association had a Christmas tour of about a dozen homes and churches last weekend. All of the buildings are beautiful regardless of the time of year, but the decorations elevated them to a different level. Most residences had multiple Christmas trees. A couple of them had a tree in …
Yes, it is early, but the lighting company starts their installations on November 1st, so that they can get them all finished by the end of the month. We were scheduled for the 4th. They arrived around 6 PM and finished up well after dark. Originally, we were thinking of hanging wreaths on the seven …
We legitimately went from green leaves on the trees to yellow leaves on the ground almost overnight. It wouldn’t be a problem except for our gutters. They catch everything, get clogged, and require me to climb a ladder to clean them out. I’m not going to type a long post, because gutter guards really are …
If you read the blog regularly, you may remember that we had a cream and black Moroccan pattern rug in the living room. It was serving its role well, but we were fortunate to find someone selling the rug in the photos above. It appears to easily be the highest quality Oriental rug we’ve ever …
Around 8:00 pm we got home after eating out. Chelsea noticed blisters on one of the foyer walls. I was shocked. Hobbes wasn’t. He said, “You hadn’t noticed that? I saw it when I got home from Talmadge’s house.” That was around noon. If it had been an insect, he would have told me in …
In all of the years we have been married, we’ve never decorated for Halloween. We’ve either been living in rentals, didn’t have the disposable income, or both. We’ve also never lived anywhere with a lot of trick-or-treaters. This year we are in our own house, and we’ve been told to expect up to 1,000 kids …
I started putting out Halloween decorations today. Above is the main flag for the month of October. I will likely be flying the Falcons’ flag on Sundays and a Braves flag during playoff games, so it will get swapped out fairly regularly.
Since May I have been flying our U.S. flag. That was appropriate for several holidays and matched many of our neighbors’ flags, but now it is time to break from everyone else. Not too far from our house in Atlanta, there was a house that flew a different flag each day. I talked to the …
I hate cleaning windows, but I love clean windows. What to do? I needed a foolproof way to have them beautifully clear with as little work as possible. After some research, I bought an E-Cloth Window Cleaning Kit. Basically, it is a large weave microfiber cloth for getting off dust, schmutz, and large cruft along …
The house up the street had an estate sale. They posted photos of some of the items available online, so we had an idea of what to expect. One of the photos was of this rug. Chelsea sent me there with explicit instructions to buy it. It wasn’t as easy as that. First, I didn’t …