Well, with just over 2.5 months remaining before we move, we’ve begun to tackle the bigger project on the current home before we sell it.
The laundry room is 1 of only 2 rooms in the house that we’ve never remodeled and it is in bad shape. We’re stripping the wallpaper in order to paint the room, then we’re putting in a new vinyl floor. Lots of work for a tiny room but it should look great when we’re done.
Jim
Nancy removing wallpaper
March 13, 2014 – Berlin Germany Today, Danielle and Rocco were our tour guides. We drove to the Embassy Row area of Berlin as there are several things to see around there. Führerbunker (“Leader’s bunker”) The first thing we walked by was the parking lot of an apartment complex. The significance of this parking lot…
Taking in some civil war history.
March 19, 2015 Danielle, Tiffani, Nancy and I left together late this morning. Â After dropping Tiffani at a babysitting job, the 3 of us stopped for lunch at Trattoria Romano. Â Really good Italian food and of course, great conversation. Danielle dropped Nancy and I at the Zehlendorf S-Bahn station after lunch. Â We took it to…
I have a Smartthings Home Automation hub installed in our home.  I use home automation to monitor, report and control various things around the home. Yesterday, I did several things with the home automation system…  1. Installed a new HVAC thermostat and added it to the Smartthings    home hub for remote control…
We went camping this Mother’s Day weekend. We camped at Windy City Campground in Tinley Park, IL. We camped down south so we could be close to Nancy’s Mom and sister. We had them over to the trailer for Mother’s Day dinner. We had a nice visit. Camping was pretty dreary though as it was…
Nancy and I are in Minneapolis this weekend for a Log Home/Timber Frame Expo and Seminar. We spent this afternoon on the exhibit floor and took in a short seminar. Tomorrow we do a half day of seminars. Afterwards, we plan to head to the Mall of America to meet up with some of my…