CCCC – Chocolate Chip Cookie Connoisseur. As some of you may know, I’ve always been a fan of chocolate chip cookie. Just about any mall, restaurant, coffee shop, or cafe that sells cookies can count me as one of their clients. Some are obviously better than others. Starbucks cookies –…
Progress on the bathroom is moving along nicely. Demolition came and went…we’ll save you the gory details. Needless to say, of all my summers spent working with concrete I’ve never hated Portland Cement so much in my life. Walls were insulated, drywall was hung, texture and paint went up. Now…
As some of you know we have purchased a new home in the Shasta – Hanchett neighborhood of San Jose. One of the first projects to tackle before moving in is the bathroom. It was a difficult decision because the bathroom did have some very cool features. And vintage tile…
Two very good friends of ours decided to throw a “Commitment Ceremony”/Party over the Holiday break. And oh what a party it was. Like us they are very much into the local food/local farms thing and the party was catered by Outstanding in the Field. A fantastic locally started “…roving…
I may have received the best Christmas present ever and I got it well before Christmas. For years I’ve been teasing Jaimie that I would buy the Leg Lamp from The Christmas Story and this year I finally did it. After Thanksgiving I ordered it from the christmas story house…
Remember that day in high school when you took a survey and it magically produced recommendations of “what you should be when you grow-up”? Interestingly enough, it never contained any of the job titles I’ve actually applied for, but that’s another topic for another day. If I could go back…
A new video was posted at the Mercury News website regarding a few volunteers trying to maintain our rose garden. Check it out here: http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/2007/12/17/rose-garden/#more-2402
I think we’ve been pondering the idea of replacing our front door since the day we moved into this place. If you live in an old house you know there is no such thing as Low Maintenance. Because our front door faces the west, it gets beat with late afternoon sun,…
So Jaimie and I have started a new “Locavore” diet. Our main goal really is to be conscience of where we spend our food dollar. And also to eat a little heathier. Here in California we are blessed with a wide variety of food options, but that does not prevent…
So we’ve finally completed the landscaping of our home in Santa Clara, for the most part. And boy are we glad it’s over. The project as a whole was a big success, although I think most of it had to do with our tendency to get really involved. We can’t…