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The tree in our front yard is budding. Is it spring already?! I hope we’re done with all this freezing business.

Categories: Austin-ish · Daily Photo · Home Sweet Home · Nature-ish · Shutterbuggin'

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My friend, Tracy, helped me make a really cool dog bed this weekend. It all started because Jef and I had a memory foam mattress topper and when we got a new bed it didn’t [...]

Categories: Buster · Crafty · Friend-ish · Home Sweet Home

My dad always says “You learn something new every day if you start out dumb enough.” This weekend I learned:
Curtains change the entire look of a room. We FINALLY hung our first pair of curtains in the house (I know, right, it’s about time!). We hung them in the common room upstairs and it’s become [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home · Learned Something New · R-R-Rambling

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This is a picture of our mantel from a year or so ago, shown here for demonstration purposes. Last night I had a fire going and all the sudden, out of nowhere, the picture came [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home

Our A/C went out again. This time on the hottest, most humid day in August (I’m not sure if it’s technically the hottest day of the year, but with no A/C it certainly feels like it).
Do you remember life w/out AC? Man, we didn’t have it all the time growing up, I’m really not [...]

Categories: Buster · Home Sweet Home · Jef

Jef and I have had an ongoing debate over the pruning of the fig tree in our back yard. Last year he said he wanted to cut it back by at least half and and I panicked. I love that tree. Even before I knew what it was, I loved the shape and unique [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home · Jef · Nature-ish

I’ve only mowed a lawn twice in my life. The first time I was about 14 and living in Wyoming. The lawn at the farm is about 10,000 square feet and we had a riding mower. When I was done my dad said it looked like a drunken sailor mowed it. I never had to [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home · Jef · The Fam

We’re experiencing some major rain in Texas this summer, evidenced by all the news coverage we’ve been getting (and phone calls from friends asking if we’ve washed away). Austin itself hasn’t been bad in terms of flooding, it’s mostly the surrounding counties, but we’ve still had an insane amount of rain. I’ve never lived somewhere [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Home Sweet Home · Jef · Video