Update 12/15/2020: It was brought to our attention that the previous link to the basics on playing hammerschlagen was no longer available, so I found a new one. It isn’t quite as entertaining as the last, but it does the job. It’s been a few interesting weeks around here! Progress is a bit slower on […]

It’s been a gloriously lazy week at the homestead. For me, at least! We finally finished packing and moving our household goods from Olympia and have them with us. Not that we can access it very easily in the packed container, but we could if we had the need and desire to rummage through it

Have I mentioned the need for flexibility while rehabbing? If I haven’t, I’ll mention it now; if I have, let me re-iterate, you must be flexible! The demo work is continuing. We had nearly a week of not being able to move past the front door for photos because of all the debris. Nearly every

Moving is the pits. And boy have we had too many moves! Fourteen years of marriage and fourteen moves, if we count the temporary move to Vegas (one month in a short-term rental) and when we moved into the RV for 8 months while transferring from Illinois back to Washington. And here we are doing

Some people are drawn to new construction homes. They like having everything new and don’t have to think about who’s dirty feet have walked over the carpet before their own (I’m speaking directly to my brother right now). But some people gravitate to old homes and love to think about the lives previously lived within

Have you ever gone on vacation and thought, “I wish I could live here full-time?” We have. In 2009, military life brought us to the Pacific Northwest. After living in a desert location for so long, we reveled in the beauty and lushness of northwestern Washington. The trees fill you with awe and wonder, and