The Summer Rehab Project

I saw these chairs that my friend Germaine had sitting out by her garage to get rid of on big trash day. I’d drive by on a fairly regular basis and wonder if she was going to use them or get rid of them. We had moved back into our remodeled house and had no…

Digging Out of Junkmail Hell

If you aren’t careful, junk mail can take over your life. In fact, Greg’s mom’s house was almost buried in it – to the point that when he had to clean it out, he hauled over 14 tons, yes, you read that right, 14 tons of junk mail to the recyclery. Hoarder’s even called us, yes…

Help, I’ve Fallen into Junkmail Hell and Can’t Get Up

What are you supposed do when you’ve fallen into Junkmail Hell and can’t get up? We recently moved Greg’s mom to a care facility closer to us and now her mail is coming to us – either forwarded (mostly billing statements and utilities and others who are slower to update a mailing address through a…

Summer Garden Spoils – Part 2

This post is a followup to the Summer Gardens at the Their Best. On our all school clean up day, part of the clean up efforts focused on the CLC Garden and harvesting what was left from the summer. It turned out to be  a fabulous “CLC Farmer’s Market.” I even got to harvest some…