Today, June 24th, 2010 we put the house up for sale.  Actually we did on June 21st but the sign was placed in the yard today.  We have worked for a long time to get it ready to sell so we can move to another place.  This is a mixed feeling moment since we [...]

Well after eight days and plenty of late arrivals, the contractors finally finished the remodel.  They left a huge mess and failed to repair a hole in the wall in the living room but the room is finishes.  It took them exactly twice as long as they predicted.  Here is a photo of the job. [...]

The last post was actually yesterday even though it was posted today. I copied and pasted it from my other blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/plmccordj. I usually try to keep that blog up as well because many people use that blog also. Anyway, those guys left yesterday and said they have another job to go to at [...]

If you have read this blog over the last few days you know we have been having a bathroom gutted and fixed.  These contractors have been showing up after noon and working for two or three hours.  Each day when they leave they tell us how much they are going to get done and never [...]

This week we decided to have our bathroom completely remodeled and since I know my limitations, we decided to hire it done.  It has been nearly a week and we still have no water.  Since they removed the sink, toilet, and bath tub, they turned our water off.  We have had the water off for two [...]

This morning I got up to get ready to visit my father in law and noticed a wet spot on the ceiling in our den.  This is really troubling because we just spent $7000 last November to have three layers of shingles removed, redecked and new shingles.  We paid extra to get the expensive shingles [...]