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Down!

Posted in House and Home, the ATL, tagged on 6 Aug 2008 | 6 Comments »

The tree came down this morning! And this tree company cut it into manageable sections for us, so we don’t have to borrow a chain saw to get it into pieces small enough for chopping. Plus, they were fast. On the whole, we were pretty darn happy with this tree-removal service.

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Well, great!

Posted in House and Home, the ATL, tagged on 5 Aug 2008 | 7 Comments »

Inspector came over yesterday, after we called the insurance peoples back and said, “um, this tree’s still in our attic? Shouldn’t someone come look at this?” and they went, “Oh… the tree that fell on your house is in your house… yeah, we’ll get someone on that.”
First, the damage: 4 cracked/broken joists, the beam that [...]

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Storm

Posted in House and Home, the ATL, tagged , on 3 Aug 2008 | 2 Comments »

That was a wild storm last night! The wind was whipping branches and poorly-attached leaves around, and there was plenty of lightning and thunder. The lights were flickering before they went out (at around 7:10 last night, we got it back around 5am). And then, just after the lights went out for good, a tree [...]

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Accomplished

Posted in House and Home, tagged on 26 Jul 2008 | 2 Comments »

We certainly earned our beers tonight! Today, I pruned the butterfly bush, fennel, porch tomato, blooming tree, roses, daylilies, mint, bee balm, bamboo, unnamed bushed around the peppers, near-the-front-stairs bush, and in-the-butterfly-bush roses. Then I fertilized the veggies and roses, and moved to the backyard, where I dug up the area for a new veggie [...]

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Continued.

Posted in House and Home, Rant and Rave, the ATL on 23 Jul 2008 | 1 Comment »

Boil Water Order Continues in DeKalb County
I’m so glad we knew about it before? I guess we aren’t one (or two) of the “Thousands of DeKalb county residents being advised…”, so I wonder how we get on the “advise of of boil notices!” list. The comments on the belated warning story are great.

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2!

Posted in CoHab, House and Home on 19 Jun 2008 | 1 Comment »

We’ve been homeowners for 2 years! Holy Crap. Lions!

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Mmm, tasty

Posted in House and Home, tagged , on 7 Jun 2008 | 3 Comments »

The tomatoes on our front porch have been ripening and, since I’m the only one in the house that likes tomatoes, I’ve been enjoying them greatly, mostly at breakfast. BLT? tasty! Tomato-basil salad? The basil’s from the front porch, too! Tomato and eggs? Yum!

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