A  few years back, some friends of ours described an inexpensive, solid pine floor installed in a home they visited in East Texas. We never had a chance to see this mythical floor in person, but the mister didn’t need no stinkin’ first hand experience to come up with his own version.
The upstairs gameroom floor is complete:

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My friend, Becky Schultea, over at Just Bee and Me, is a very happy woman. One of the main reasons for her recent spurt of all things joyful is this guy right here:

John Schultea is the sort of guy you like right away.  He’s kind and loving and treats Becky like the princess we’ve all known […]

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The New Plan means a change in our criteria. Specifically we’re able to look for homes further away from our target area for rental properties.
This week, these homes showed up on MLS.

Asking price: $31,500
3 bedrooms, 1 and 1/2 baths, 2 car garage
Initial impression: very sad looking little place on 1/2 acre in a growing area […]

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Here’s a little house we toured recently:

 Foreclosure, 3/1/0, asking price: $34,900

nice enough neighborhood
small fenced yard,
no garage or storage shed
recent carpet
no holes in sheetrock or doors
no missing trim.
signs of low-cost upgrades and work
almost new kitchen cabinets and counters (lowest quality, but new and functional)
 new bathroom sink
nice utility closet with washer/dryer hookups

 On first glance, the house is […]

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Other than  real estate, home decorating is probably nearest and dearest to my chicken-fried heart (right after the mister… and the little Brz’s…and possibly JoJo… oh, never mind.)
Much too late in life, I came to realize that beauty and order in our home environment directly correlates to positive mental outlook and increased productivity. Which, of course, is an excellent excuse […]

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The mister and I married  on a hot July afternoon in the summer of ’80. Soon thereafter, our area slid into the ugliest recession ever to hit this part of Texas. If you’re old enough to remember the Savings and Loan Scandal, you might know first hand what that decade was like.
Houston was a virtual ghost town of empty skyscrapers.  Strip centers became […]

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Someone Who Shall Remain Nameless brought home some uninvited germ-y house guests and, as of this writing, 3 out of 4 Brz’s are feeling mighty rotten. As there seemed no point in keeping the mister awake as one of my lungs tries to make a break for independence, I thought I’d entertain the troops with […]

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