Continued from: SibSabs – 2024 – Prelude With just weeks before our scheduled SibSab, we decided to travel to Northwest Arkansas where our two sisters lived and where we had … Continue Reading SibSabs – 2024 – A Familiar Location
This blog title should be a clue that this year, we got to have more than one SibSab (Sibling Sabbatical). To be exact, we had two. But the first one … Continue Reading SibSabs – 2024 – Prelude
These chairs have belonged to my wife for longer than I can remember. They originally sat on her grandmother’s expansive porch at her large home in midtown Memphis. Sometime after … Continue Reading Rejuvenated Vintage Chairs
Have you bought a new car lately? We certainly were not planning to replace my wife’s 2016 Subaru Outback. At least not that is until a year ago in November … Continue Reading A New Car?
Continued from: Doll House Furnishings – Phase 8 When my sister drove over for the 4th of July, I learned she had worked her magic on this bookcase as well. … Continue Reading Doll House Furnishings – Phase 9
Continued from: Doll House Furnishings – Phase 7 Sorry to have left you with another cliff hanger but I suspect some of you may have guessed what the issue was … Continue Reading Doll House Furnishings – Phase 8
I have written before what a glorious day it is to drive around with the top down in my red Miata but this year, I had a top-down summer! How … Continue Reading Top-Down Summer
Continued from: Doll House Furnishings – Phase 6 Returning to that cliff hanger I left you at in the last update… Two more critical details are important to remember. First, … Continue Reading Doll House Furnishings – Phase 7
Continued from: Doll House Furnishings – Phase 5 I know it has been several months since I provided an update on how I have been furnishing my doll house, but … Continue Reading Doll House Furnishings – Phase 6
October 31st, 2024, marks the seventh anniversary of me retiring from fulltime work. If you have read my previous retirement posts, you know that I have often written the word … Continue Reading Retirement – 7th Anniversary
As I was sitting on my miniature porch enjoying a nice frosty beverage after all my hard work—I mean play—finishing my dollhouse and either building or purchasing many of its … Continue Reading Doll House for my Sister’s Granddaughter – Phase 1
After having such a great time in St. Louis with our daughter and her family at the end of June, my wife and I decided we would take our in-town … Continue Reading Granddaughter Trip to St. Louis
Continued from: Pergola Vision The first sign of trouble was more of a nuisance than a real problem. You may recall for the roof of the pergola; we had purchased … Continue Reading Pergola Predicament
If you read my post from earlier this year about my LEGO Boutique Hotel, you already know that even before I had finished building the hotel, I had decided to … Continue Reading LEGO Natural History Museum
I have written in the past about the three generation vacations we have taken with our youngest son and his family and how they were similar to the ones we … Continue Reading ♫ Meet Me in St. Louis ♫ – Another Three Generation Vacation
Continued from: Miniature Bookshelf Café – Preparing to Serve a Cup of Joe Continuing, the walls began to go up. Some of the tabs that slotted them together were so … Continue Reading Miniature Bookshelf Café – Order Up for a Cup of Joe