Today is the 10-year anniversary of when we bought this house . I cannot believe how fast the time has flown by. In that time, we transforme...

I moan about the City of Portland quite a lot. The city has many problems, the primary one being way too many homeless people. There are too...

Sigh. Another ugly Portland installation. The city doesn't even notify you it's going to happen; they just show up and put it in. ...

Because our kitchen was on their Kitchen Tour last April, we were gifted with a free membership to the Architectural Heritage Center (AHC) ,...

Jeff went to the City of Portland today to ask about building the new garage. The City's rules, in our opinion, are pretty irrational. ...

In August 2010, Jeff signed us up for the Audubon Society of Portland's Backyard Habitat Certification Program . But once we got plannin...

In Multnomah County, rate payers pay quite a lot for stormwater management (our last bill was more than $20/month). Our goal has been to dis...

Jeff and Sharon drove over this morning to visit Steve, the blacksmith who owns Yardley Forge . (He's also on Etsy .) Because he was ...

We woke up to a nice layer of snow on the ground and it is beautiful! Jeff was lucky—his class was cancelled this morning. Update at 3PM: It...

Earlier this week, Jeff and I attended a free class in Portland offered by the East Multnomah Soil & Conservation District: Rain Gardens...

We dropped by Joe Ernst's neighborhood street party today and got to meet a fellow Portland House Blogger. We got a quick tour of the m...

We celebrated getting so much done yesterday by spending several hours today shopping around Portland. Now that the chicken tractor is in ...

Just a quick note that we arrived safe and sound in Portland, Oregon. We already hired some help to unload the U-Haul trailer and that's...

Jeff and I were both pretty tired today, and we didn't get any packing done. We mostly caught up on our sleep and hung out watching good...

I am feeling much better this morning, after getting a chance to catch up on some sleep. We spent our first night in the new house last nigh...

I just got an email from our realtor: "Your purchase of the house is final. Congratulations!" It's a relief to finally have th...

We finally have a deal! The sellers are going to sell us the house for our offered price. They have decided to close on May 18, but I have c...

Last night we received another extension form from the sellers of Multnomah extending our inspection deadline until Wednesday. Since they gr...

We have been back and forth with the sellers and it seems somewhat likely this house purchase is going to fall through. Today is the current...

We're still waiting to hear from the sellers about whether they'll accept our revised price. If they don't get back to us by tom...