I am taking advantage of this Christmas beak and working on my kitchen. We have stopped the faucet from leaking (thank goodness because that drip, drop drives me crazy).  Tomorrow we are pulling out the refrigerator to replace it, and I plan on doing some major scrubbing while that is out of the way (it’s always so nasty behind a refrigerator). And then next week I will look at our food. I bought a lot of foods for survival over the past 5 or  6 years we we’ve been threatened with hurricanes, but I need to clean out some of it as I don’t have room for new groceries. I bought a lot of food freeze dried to make sure that if we were without water and/or electricity for long … Read entire article »

Each break over the last year we’ve had from school, I’ve tackled another area of my house and tried to thoroughly go through everything and remove as much as I could from our house. There’s only one problem – what to do with it when I remove it. I don’t have a truck, and frequently it’s enough that either it won’t  fit it my car (a large item) or there’s so much that it will … Read entire article »

I’m home!  And though we had rain almost every day in Panama, we still only received one day of rain here at home; however, it was a bad one.  In fact, Cameron’s trampoline was ruined.  Luckily that was the only damage, though. Many had a lot more.  From lightening causing fires and now needing cleaning up after the disasters (http://www.thesteamteam.com/austin-restoration-services/smoke-fire.shtml) to roofs being blown off and now everyone doing do it yourself upholstery cleaning from the storms damage to their furniture. If we’d been in the Austin area a lot of us could have used The Steam Team.  Lucky for me (especially since I wasn’t around to take action) the only damage we had was the trampoline.  There are lots of limbs in the yard that I need to clean … Read entire article »