Category: Home Depot

A Different Kind of Flip

Posted in appliance, college, Craigslist, fixer, flip, Home Depot, humor, June, kitchen remodel, Las Trampas Ridge, lipstick on a pig, piano, pig, puppy, relationships, tea cups, weddingLeave a comment

(re-run) Fourteen years ago I bought my little house due to a divorce. I downsized and lost 3000 square feet, an angry husband, and many beloved pieces of furniture – a wing chair, an antique trunk, some beds, a dresser, and an antique dresser and mirror that I refinished by hand after buying it in… Continue reading A Different Kind of Flip

The Case of the Missing Bathtub

Posted in bath, bathroom, bathtub, contractor, Home Depot, Kohler, memoir, remodelLeave a comment

(re-run) I had everything ready – the shower tile, floor tile, the vanity, the toilet with the round bowl, the towel bars, the shower nozzle and valve, and the bathtub (on order from Home Depot), arriving on May 1st. But it didn’t.  When I clicked the tracking button, there was no tracking available. I knew… Continue reading The Case of the Missing Bathtub

The Case of the Missing Bathtub

Posted in bath, bathroom, bathtub, contractor, Home Depot, Kohler, memoir, remodelLeave a comment

I had everything ready – the shower tile, floor tile, the vanity, the toilet with the round bowl, the towel bars, the shower nozzle and valve, and the bathtub on order from Home Depot, arriving on May 1st. But it didn’t.  When I clicked the tracking button, there was no tracking available. I knew that… Continue reading The Case of the Missing Bathtub

Another Dang Daisy Dog Post

Posted in animal adoption, animal rescue, cement blocks, dogs, Home Depot, hunting, neighborhood, neighbors, pajamas, rats, squirrels, veterinarianLeave a comment

A Jack Russell Terrier is a hunter and very focused, at that.  Little did I know when I picked the cowering rescue girl in the corner of the adoption room, where she wouldn’t eat anything out of the volunteer’s hand, that she would get comfortable enough in her third life to stalk and kill the… Continue reading Another Dang Daisy Dog Post

A Different Kind of Flip

Posted in appliance, college, Craigslist, fixer, flip, Home Depot, humor, kitchen remodel, Las Trampas Ridge, lipstick on a pig, piano, pig, puppy, relationships, tea cups, weddingLeave a comment

Eight years ago I bought my little house due to a divorce. I downsized and lost 3000 square feet, an angry husband, and many beloved pieces of furniture – a wing chair, an antique trunk, some beds, a dresser, and an antique dresser and mirror that I refinished by hand after buying it in a… Continue reading A Different Kind of Flip