A BIG SURPRISE!!!
Our month of all the house guests is over! Sadness! My snister Christina, her husband Will, and their son William, visited from Kansas City Thursday night through Monday afternoon <— how awesome they could stay for so long! We didn’t have any big plans!...
Intruder alert!
On Friday night we were telling Anne and Terry we installed a camera in our attic to track any critters in there. And that since we put it in, there hadn’t been any activity. Yeah, you know where this is headed. Steven informed us Saturday morning that we had a...
House Project: Backup Sump Pumps & Covers
The sump pump project is completed! Yay! (Click here to read what a sump pump is and where you need them.) Background: we have two separate sump pumps in our basement. One is for ground water and one is for water in our house (laundry, AC, etc.). The first one pumps...
House Project: Fun with the boom lift!
Hooray! This weekend, Steven and Dad completed some projects that Steven’s wanted to get done for a long time. We had been waiting for the right weather (we kind of had it…) and time to do it! Renting a boom lift was crucial to the work – installing...
Carb loading = done!*
My parents visited this weekend through this morning! The purpose of the trip was for Mom to go with me to NeoCon, but we also celebrated Mom’s birthday, and Steven and Dad got a lot of projects done (I’ll cover all those in another post!). Oh yes. And I did all...
Hi! I’m Kim, a 40-something-year-old living in northeastern Illinois with my husband Steven, and our cats, Khaleesi, Apollo, Starbuck, and Eddard aka Ned. My current main hobbies are running, painting rocks, flying, reading, and eating. I follow a vegan lifestyle and work in an account management role. I write about a variety of topics and consider this a “life” blog – a place I can share anything that’s on my mind. Please visit the “About” page to get a better idea of who I am! 🙂