Category: House/Home

I mentioned last fall that the girls all wanted fruit tress again in our yard. At the time I was able to get a pear and a nectarine tree to put in, along with a raspberry and marionberry bush. Well, the ground has thawed out and it is time for more trees to be planted….

No we aren’t having a baby. No we didn’t get a pet. We got a robot vacuum. We decided to get a robot vacuum to aid our lives in the realm of cleaning the house. I did a lot or looking online and there are as many likes and dislikes for all of them that…

As promised here is what happened with the now and us. I got my math science field day beanie from SCC. It showed up yesterday just in time for this snow day! We made a couple snow aliens. The snow was super sticky in the morning and made for very easy snow ball making. That…

Yep it snowed a bunch over night. So school for the girls and I was canceled today. I have had school canceled once before in my life and that a few years ago for extreme rain, of course I was already at school that day when they sent out the “stay home” alerts. We got…

Today I woke up and we had the first actual accumulation of snow on the ground here in Idaho. It wasn’t much and it mostly melted by noon, but it was a buildup of snow. There has been snow on the mountains for a while now, but this is the first at the house that…

There has been a number of things going on around the house here in Idaho over the last couple weeks. So, here is an update of what is going on. I enjoy grilling food. Well, I find it an easy way to make food at least. I have a propane grill that we moved up…

Now that I live in Idaho I have a number of new things I get to experience. I got to experience one this weekend. That is a blowout. What is a blowout you may ask? Well, our yards here are all watered using irrigation water. We get that via sprinklers here, and not flood irrigation…

The house here in Idaho has a soft water system already hooked to the house. As a family we decided very quickly that we all hated it and I turned it off and bypassed it within a couple weeks f being here. But the family did want a whole house water filter. we had one…

Another thing that I did last weekend was start the new orchard at our new home. For those that knew our house in Chandler we had the following trees in our backyard: Plum, Fig, Peach, Orange and Pomegranate. And we had a pretty good size garden as well. Well last weekend I started the process…

When we bought the house here in Idaho we had to buy a refrigerator, washer and dryer. We knew that coming into things. We got good ones there. Now that we had been in the house a few weeks, living here and doing life here we found that the dishwasher was not really working all…