Anybody who has left our house knows that Sophie has a bit of separation anxiety as soon as you even start your Minnesota goodbye. Here she is blocking the door at our Minneapolis house. In general, she is a friendly dog, but when you even hint at leaving she gets all feisty or whinny. When…
After surviving one of the coldest Minnesota winters in 35 years we spent the last week or two drowning in rain. I’m sure there were hundreds of people with water in their basement, including us. After the water nightmares in our MPLS house (read more about that here) this water issue was nothing. The floater…
I saw this DIY piece of art on Bower Power and thought, now that’s a DIY project I could do! And I did! I used an old picture we had on our mantle in our MPLS house. I was over it and Nolan never really liked to begin with. I bought it at Kohl’s while he was…
This past weekend I binged on Deuce Cities Henhouse. I binge on blogs like I binge on TV shows. I save up several good ones and then watch/read them all in one weekend. Anyway, between crafty projects like this, I read about their Drano issues. And it reminded me of our own clean-out issues at…
Sophie was a surprise birthday present from nol-dog and we’re both convinced it was both the best and worst birthday present ever. Goldendoodles were all the rage and even though I was in grad school, we both worked full-time and we both had a very healthy social life we didn’t think it was that big of a deal to get a…
Try paint samples before actually painting a room. Other people can probably pick out colors fine without problem but not me (even in our current 2nd bedroom I thought I nailed it and nope!). I’ve read blogs that give tips on picking out paint colors, there is some great advice out there but my stand-by way of…
