As most of you know, I am from Wisconsin. More specifically, Green Bay Wisconsin. My parents live close enough to Lambeau Field that you can actually walk over there. Imagine my surprise, when I just heard that Brett Favre has retired. The story is over at NFL.com, so I am… Read More »Brett Favre Retires!

While on vacation, we made some big decisions about the house. Bill is pretty sure we can’t afford to go up (that and we don’t want to go into a ton of debt trying to just get the shell and then there isn’t enough cash left over to actually finish… Read More »Additions and basements

We went to Oak Lawn Home Show several weeks ago. I found it extremely interesting. We met with several builders who were suppose to call us back. Amazingly, most did not. Why bother going to the show if you aren’t going to contact your leads? Secondly, I asked each person,… Read More »Why lie?

I know that I have complained about the house next door before.  It’s new construction, and they have been at it for 2 years.  They pretty much have abandoned it — it looks like that to us at least.  Well, now creatures have, like a huge raccoon, started to come… Read More »The House Next Door

So we ended up buying a new microwave today.  Now, I am just waiting for Bill to put it up.  Since I have very limited counter space, we have to have one that goes over the stove.  We ended going with a Maytag one since they had it in stock,… Read More »Microwave