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One year ago today Jen and I became first-time homeowners, realizing the American Dream. It’s been an amazing year and I love owning a special home. Aside from the obvious benefits of not paying rent, we’ve had so many great memories already, from the parties to the bocce to the BBQs to porch sitting to […]

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Even though LG, which now owns the rights to the Goldstar brand, denies it, I’m convinced that our Goldstar DH2510 dehumidifier, which we inherited with the house, is defective and should be part of the recall. I discovered the recall over the weekend, and it instantly explained the burning wire smell we experienced in December. […]

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Sometimes it’s exhausting owning a house. Our house and property aren’t even all that big, relatively speaking, but they’re enough to keep two of us plenty busy maintaining them. Yesterday we first leveraged the daylight hours to mow the lawn, whack the weeds with our new weed whacker (I had a lot of fun with […]

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It turns out that the partially frozen pipes I addressed on Monday weren’t frozen at all. It was just a matter of old pipe sediment having built up inside the little drainage thing in the kitchen sink. That was quite the relief. So this morning, when it happened again, I felt like a pro, knowing […]

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I woke up this morning and had the urge to make coffee with water from the Brita pitcher; I usually use the tap and let the coffee machine’s built-in filter do the work. Good thing I went Brita today. After pouring 6 cups of water into the coffee pot, I proceeded to refill the pitcher […]

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Owning a home and getting older do funny things to you. For the first time yesterday, Jen and I went on an Oriental rug mission. After quickly realizing that the advertised BJ’s (Costco) sale was just a tad out of our price range (do people really pay $25,000 for something they will walk and spill […]

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Jen was inspired to write the following poem after the crazy day we had yesterday: t’was the night after moving, and all though the house what strange sounds we heard… the wind? …a mouse?? after some detective work we realize in a snap, the noise we are hearing– it’s a big clog of crap! no […]

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