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Chez O’Shea is back in business!
Just in time for holiday visitors, Chez O’Shea is open and ready for company! It took us ten days of intermittent hard work (with breaks for gainful employment) but the spare bedroom now has hardwood floors, fresh paint and an overall new look and feel. It is now the official GUEST bedroom! Next up: the
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Keeping Big Brother in the Know
Chuck and I are going to the Caribbean in early December to celebrate our tenth anniversary (I know! Awesome, huh? We’re pretty excited.) We wanted to go someplace where neither of us had been and that wouldn’t break the bank (home improvement ain’t cheap) and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic fit the bill. We’re
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Not ones to let grass grow under our feet, on to the bedroom!
It seems like just last week we were putting the finishing touches on the spare bathroom. Oh wait! We were. But that was last week. Now it’s time to move on to the spare bedroom. On the agenda: wood floors, new base boards, and closet doors. Oh and a wall-mounted TV which entailed taking out
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Hallelujah! The bathroom lives!
It’s taken a lot longer than anticipated but the spare bathroom remodel is finally drawing to a close. the final tile work is drying, the toilet is back in place, the slink and faucets are all in working order. Yep! It’s a bathroom again! It looks great, too – and it really does (as I
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Thoughts on my new age group
A week from today (Oct 13) is my birthday. Normally, I’d let that pretty much slide blog-wise but I’ve been inspired by our good friend Meagan (my personal favorite author of quarter-century-crisis roman a clefs) who has been blogging about turning 30. So I thought I’d blog about turning 55, which age I will turn
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Blood sweat and tears (well, not so much the blood and tears but LOTS of sweat)
Our bathroom remodel project is trudging along – we have been sidetracked by so much work and travel that we are not moving nearly as quickly as we had originally planned. Progress has been made: the plumbing is all installed and the cutout for the soap and shampoo is done. Over the past week or
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