Author: Eileen OShea
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Transformation
It took almost exactly twice as long as expected, but the money pit has been transformed! It’s now a green house with red accents. Here’s the before and after:
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The continuing adventures of life in the money pit
When last we left our intrepid home improvement saga, we were gearing up to paint the house. Well, here we are a couple of weeks later and we are still gearing up to paint the house. But we’re getting closer! Â Selecting colors proved more arduous than certainli I had expected. First, there was our own…
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Time to Paint the Money Pit!
So now that the house has been fully repaired (goodbye, dry rot! goodbye bad siding!) we are ready for step 2 of our money pit beautification project. It’s house painting time! We hired Student Painters to do the job. They’re a very cool company that works with college students to give them real world experience…
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Update from the Money Pit – or how we spent our summer vacation savings 🙁
We’ve been having some work done on the money pit house for the past week or so. It all started because we decided it was time to repaint. Our house was looking increasingly like the shabbiest place on the block, with chipping paint, split boards, and (yikes!) dry rot – stuff like that. It was…
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A final road trip
UPDATE 06-10-11: I just heard this song and realized it captures perfectly what this weekend meant to me. Go call your family, hug your kids. Time is precious. Don’t waste it. ———————- I have spent the last couple of weeks getting ready for what I dubbed “Ashes to Ashes: A Memorial.” It started out as…
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Another year, another El Prieto Handicap
Last Saturday (May 21) was the 18th annual El Prieto Handicap, Chuck’s little race that he’s been putting on for, you guessed it, 18 years (here’s the story behind the race). But this was the third year (the first time was 2009 – I can’t believe it’s been that long!) that we asked folks to…
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