My furniture was delivered today. I had to ditch the boxspring or it looked really bad. We have a really thick mattress. This furniture is a...

I spent the day shopping for basement furnishings. We'd been planning to replace the old rugs and buy a sofa with a drop-down table for ...

Since we are refinishing our basement, I had expected Jeff would want to replace his home theater gear. It's getting pretty old—most of ...

We have a start date for our basement project. Tim Austin is currently on a job and believes he'll be ready to start our basement proje...

Do you guys remember this drama from last May? Our BlueStar range started on fire and we called out the fire department to put it out. (Jeff...

Yesterday evening, we had a bit of excitement. Jeff put on a pot to boil for dinner and the range started on fire. He didn't notice imme...

Last summer, I discovered a wonderful online nursery, Santa Rosa Gardens, and bought a TON of plants from them . Many were deeply discounted...

Anyone who has followed our blog for a while knows that I obsess about things. My latest obsession was about a silly evergreen maidenhair fe...

In January, I placed an order from Easy to Grow Bulbs for bareroot bleeding hearts and a few other flowers. The order finally came today. ...

Our beautiful weather last week tempted us to our local nurseries. I've been eager to finish planting the bed under the black walnut. ...

I've never had hostas before, but I constantly see them in photos of shade gardens and when I learned they survive fine under black waln...

In my never-ending quest for color palette perfection, I dragged Jeff to a couple of nurseries somewhat outside of Portland this weekend. ...

After the Wholesale Nursery debacle , I had pretty much sworn off of buying plants from online nurseries. But this year, when I wanted very ...

Most years Jeff and I don't take advantage of Black Friday sales but, with the move, this year was an exception. Our current dryer went ...