Another episode in our home construction saga. The west wall of our house was ready to be stood up, but two men just couldn’t do it. The framing and the sheeting on a 22-foot wall add up to one heavy lift. How about using the little excavator to pull it up? Get the machine…
Author: Grandma Grace
House Lipstick
If windows are the eyes of the home, then the door is the mouth. I think my new door deserves lipstick, ahem, pretty paint. If you have a lovely stained wood door, skip this article. But if you have a painted door, why not give your house a lift with a new paint color? While…
Looking and Feeling Better
Processed foods could shave years off of your life. A 2012 study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition found that people who cooked at home at least five times a week were 47% more likely to be alive after 10 years than the people who relied more on processed foods. Accelerated aging The facts:…
Last Lap
Almost August. One last lap of Summer. How are you doing? You wanted to do something important this Summer. Have you made progress? You still have a chance to make it happen! Remember June and the ideas you had for what your summer could be? Have you brought some of those ideas to fruition? …
Summer Suggestions
Ah, Summer. . . time to relax. Or so they say. If you’re a mother of littles, you smile faintly when you hear this phrase and murmur to no one in particular, “Someday”. Or perhaps you’re like me, even after all the children are grown and gone, you have never gotten the hang of relaxing. …
Grit or Grace?
I don’t care for ladders. This may have something to do with my discomfort with heights. (Heights is any time my feet are more than three feet from the ground.) Some of you are snickering at the ridiculousness of my fear, but some of you are nodding with empathy. So in the case of fears,…