Still preliminary house hunting, though housing costs are inching up in our target neighborhoods so we’re expanding our search a bit. Would still prefer southern Iowa, but some of the things I’ve seen in parts of Illinois made my jaw drop. Case in point: As usual, click on the thumbnails to enlarge your view. Trust…
Category: Ex Trailer Trash
Le Sigh
Talking with the daughter today, we were calculating if/when a move would be possible, because… Oh yeah. This place. The house we ALL fell in love with, including G. G even mentioned the daughter could live in the downstairs space. (We hadn’t seriously broached the subject until now.) For the record, it’s further north than…
The House Always Wins
The closest we’re coming to a house move in the immediate future is a planned second cross-country trip this fall. I’m still another 3-ish years from retirement, much as I’d like to turn in my equipment and go off to play tomorrow. However, my younger daughter and I are having fun looking at what you…
Ribbed For My Pleasure
Yes, I’ve been reading too much Dangerspouse lately. For the record, rib in the title refers to the BBQ pork variety. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Today my husband was at the peak of his element, as instead of going to yard sales, we held our own. More accurately, he held our…
The Squeaky One
My original entry title was going to be, Another One Bites the Dust, but I sort of recalled using that title before. So I searched – and yeah, I’d used it before, in 2010, 2008, and a variant in 2011. Oops. We hit the ground running this morning and kept at it for a long,…




