... can be good things.

Who knew?

Of course, a good deadline requires at minimum two characteristics:

1. It must be realistic
2. Failure must not really matter

Our moving deadline appears to fit the bill.

Erik is leaving on June 9 for his annual fishing trip.  Nothing gets between Erik and his fishing trip.  I think it's the only real relaxation he gets all ( Read more... )

Good Question.

Current answer:  After we get the CO (Certificate of Occupancy) and before Conclave.  Turns out COs come in two flavors.

Or at least, from  whatever government agency the CO comes from, which I have yet to understand but which Erik knows exquisitely, so I'm covered.  This flavor requires a series of inspections, for the various trades ( Read more... )

OMG - Deer

In comment to the previous post, I replied to questions about deer-as-pests issues. I then thought of more, so here's another post.

Yes, I have had 15 years of struggling with our deer in the current house. I expect the guys at the new house to be even bolder, since we were brash enough to build our home on their feeding ground. ( Read more... )

I'm trying to figure it out, myself.

Thanks to all for the helpful comments on my Anti-Lawn entry.  Some of you [waves at Eva] really gave me lots to chew on.  So I think you deserve your own entry, rather than just a return comment.

( Verbosity behind the cut: )

AKICILJ

It is not possible for me to mow a lawn.  Well, not impossible, but certainly unwise.  I am allergic to grass clippings.  When I had my 1/5 of an acre lot to tend before my marriage, it would take me an entire weekend, starting after work on Friday, for me to mow my lawn.  For every 10 minutes of mowing time, I would spend 30 minutes ( Read more... )

It's always easy to get money to flow away from one.

Erik is aiming for CO (certificate of occupancy) by 3rd week May.  So I figured it was time to find out how we go about converting from our construction loan to a mortgage.  Because of the choices we made at the beginning, it turns out to be quite easy, indeed:  Two signatures (each) at a single ( Read more... )

If you are comfortable being Fools together, it must be love.

Despite our best efforts, our 15th wedding anniversary came off extremely well.

"Despite?" I hear you ask.  Yes, we tried quite hard to screw it all up.

( The dinner )

Even some to drink.

We've taken the plunge.  We bought a no-salt water conditioning system.  Not a water softener.  This is an important thing to understand, because there are a lot of "no salt water softener" claims out there.  This system does not soften the water; it renders the hard water to avoid the bothersome affects of hard water.

Reynolds ( Read more... )

With a little information

Husband has heard tell of a new (just released in the last year or so) water softening technique that does not require any kind of salt (nor potassium or other salt product) to do its thing.  It sounds a bit on the edge, but as far as he can tell, it is chemically sound (he is a chemist by training.)  However, it's enough ( Read more... )

It's a race against time

May 1.  That's the first hard deadline we've faced in this entire process.

Good things happen if we can get the CO (certificate of occupancy) by then.  Things we'd like to have happen.  But it's going to be veeeerrry close, indeed!

We're definitely in the finishing stages.  Faucets are in (except for the one I forgot to order ( Read more... )