Blog posts from House

our new Weber!

Eric's birthday present this year was a lovely new Weber grill. Folks on both sides pitched in and we can't wait to get it dirty!  :) (three hours of assembly by a PhD required) (with a side burner...

a new roof over our heads

On Monday we finally got that new roof that the home inspector told us we needed three years ago when we bought our home. We didn't have any leaks or major problems, but we were living with an...

Our new waterfront property!

As has been in the news, Tropical Storm Hanna passed over the Carolinas today. We started getting rain yesterday afternoon, and overnight, the main portion of the storm passed over the Triangle. The...

our new coffee table (finally)

The day after we got back from Christmas, we bought this coffee table during a huge sale at Nowell's Furniture. That would be January 3, 2008; we were hoping to have it for the Superbowl. We just...

Home theater upgrade, part 2

I've been eying a new receiver for our home theater for the last year, and after a good bit of research, I decided to get an Onkyo (TX-SR705). Of course, I needed to get a good deal on it, so for...

oh yeah, it’s fall!

We had to turn the heat on for the first time in months when we returned from Florida as the house was a cool 62 degrees in the middle of the afternoon. Eric is the designated...

Too early for Fall

August was a very hot month with the most sustained heat I've ever experienced. Several weeks of 90°F+ days (many of them 100°F+), low humidity, and only one short thunderstorm in the past 7 weeks...

wall art

One night while Eric was in San Diego, I stenciled a quote onto the wall in our living room. We have been meaning to put something above the futon for a while now and I thought this would be a...

WRAL and our free antenna

This post is to thank WRAL, the CBS affiliate in the RTP area, for our free antenna. I learned about their giveaway promotion in February, and after finding out that it was a legitamate offer,...

weekend project – building a raised bed

As I've mentioned previously, we haven't had much luck with the tomatoes and peppers in the garden behind the garage or the raised bed we built last spring. The only place in our backyard that gets...

my new desk

We've been searching for a new office desk for some time that was a) bigger, b) reasonably priced, and c) not super-cheap particle board. The most challenging obstacles turned out to be b and c....

our home… two years later

Two years ago this week, we moved into our very first home. At last we had a yard, a garage, and could play music as loud as we wanted. We also got three wallpapered bathooms (no more!), old kitchen...

The roof is fixed

After several days of phone calls we finally got the roof fixed this morning. Thankfully we never had rain and there was no permanant damage. We dodged a bullet! While the roof was being repaired...

Ah, homeownership

Imagine our surprise upon waking up to this on Monday morning - Upon further inspection we determined that our ridge vent was no longer on our ridge. Umm, how does a ridge vent just fall off?...

Wintery mix?

This morning we woke up to about an inch of wet snow - the weather folks did warn us about a "wintery mix" but it seems the winter part arrived first. We're expecting most of it to melt by this...

Christmas lights on the house

I actually put the lights up just before Thanksgiving this year, so this photo is a little late. You can click on the photo for a large version. Note that 1) our hanging ferns are still alive and 2)...

Our Itinerary

2024 Trips

San Diego, CA (Jan)
Sarasota, FL (Feb)
Valencia, Spain (Mar)
Mallorca (Apr)
Croatia (May)
Faroe Islands (Aug)
London, UK (Sept)
Bari, Italy (Sept)
Rome, Italy (Oct)
Frankfurt, Germany (Oct)

2022 Trips

Florida (Feb)
NC Mountains (Apr)
Washington DC (Apr)
Valencia, Spain (May)
Hilton Head, SC (May)
Pacific NW (Jun)
Long Island (Jul)
Florida (Sept)
Chicago (Sept)
Poland (Sept)
NC Mountains (Nov)
Euro Xmas Markets (Dec)