That terrible sinking feeling hit when we got the quote for a new roof. It was twice what we had expected even thinking on the high end. Besides the original 1917 black slate still on large parts of it, one of the big costs is that the aluminum siding on the sides of the dormer […]

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I got an email with a video attachment from my brother and his wife. It was called “going, going, gone.” I watched the video showing the house I grew up in, with all its happy memories, go down in just a few seconds. I sat there several moments waiting for it […]

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We drove to Chicago, actually Woodstock and Crystal Lake, for the weekend to attend a birthday party for my husband’s best friend. Brutal, just brutal traffic. Never, and we swear to it, never will we ever drive to Chicago again. We’ll fly to Milwaukee and then rent a car and drive down […]

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