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

Did I forget to mention that we decided to adopt Buster? That’s right! He’s an official member of the zoo now.

After going back and forth the entire trial week… yes, then no, then absolutely yes, then definitely no, we finally made a pro/con list. The pro list had everything we wanted in a dog, [...]

Categories: Buster · Home Sweet Home · Jef

Our house has this second little mini-living room upstairs that we call it the Common Room. It’s really just an oversized hallway, it’s main purpose is to guide you to the rooms on the second floor, but because it’s 10×10 space you have to put furniture in it. The funny thing is, it’s all MY [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home

This is Buster, the new dog we’re ‘dating.’ He’s a one-year old Papillon-Chihuahua mix. He’s staying at our house for the weekend to see how we all get along and and if want to make it a permanent thing. Jef and I are pretty smitten and Lucy loooooves him, they’ve been playing non-stop since he [...]

Categories: Buster · Home Sweet Home · Jef

Meet my little friend.
We bought this on clearance about a year ago and we just used it for the first time this week. It had just been sitting over in the corner, with a slight intimidating air, all by it’s robot self. What will happen when we use it? Will it change our lives? [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home

Jef’s mom sent us some whole, flavored coffee beans from Tom’s in Binghamton (my favorite store I’ve never been to) and a coffee grinder for Christmas this year. I’m a part-time coffee drinker, so I only started to grind and brew these in the past month. What a difference. I’m hooked.

Categories: Home Sweet Home · The Fam