When we started shopping for a house, both Jeanine Frost and Grace Draven warned me that the applying for a loan was going to be a nightmare. As self-employed, we face far greater scrutiny. When we bought the house we currently live in, it was easy. Not sure why, but they asked for certain documents,
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Saturday Silliness
First, I grabbed a hot candle and burned my left index finger. I have to work today. My typing is a series of ows. Second, look at my fancy tea. Blue tea is the latest craze. The color comes from Butterfly Pea flowers. I bought a box from Tea Forte, because someone sent me a
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Fear Overload
This is a personal and not very entertaining post. I will ask you to keep your political views to yourself, please. Feel free to comment on the subject of the post, but if you feel the need to express your frustration with Republicans or Democrats, please do it elsewhere. You’ve been warned. Because of my
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Moving and House Troubles
Contrary to the creative posting by certain smart ass assistants, we’re not completely wrapped up in house issues. We’re also working on Kate 10. A lot of you emailed and asked us when we are moving, where we are moving, and so on. Austin is a big sprawling city that’s only getting bigger and it
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Things That Drive Me Nuts
I’ve been seeing this meme on Facebook, and it drives me up the wall. The man on the left is Cary Grant. He was born in 1904. In 1917, he would’ve been 13 years old. He is older in the picture and the cut of his coat is quite generous so I would put this
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On Men, Incomprehensibility Of
Me: Why is your nose bleeding? Him: I was helping Kid 1 to put cardboard into a dumpster in her apartment. We put too much cardboard in and the lid fell and scraped off a chunk of my skin. Me: When was this? Him: Wednesday. Me: You got scraped by the lid of an apartment
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My Father
My father skyped me, because he was worried about the hurricane Harvey and the flood. After assuring me that he googled the weather at my address and it wasn’t too bad – we shall pause here to acknowledge that my Dad called me to tell me what my weather is like – he listened to
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Hurricane Harvey
Thank you for your concern, guys. We are fine. We are mainly looking at flooding, but so far we have rain and some strong wind gusts. Grace Draven is in Houston and she just marked herself safe about an hour ago.
Possible Texas Move
Does anybody live in New Braunfels or Bulvedre in Texas? We are looking to possibly move there for a couple of years. We are still fired up for Florida move, but the kids seem to be taking a little bit more time to orient themselves and that would put us about 90 minutes away in
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The Most Disgusting Thing
Saw this on Facebook and thought we could all use a diversion. What is the most disgusting dinner you were forced to eat as a child and have never eaten as an adult? This. This is holodetz. Traditional winter “holiday” food. Pardon me while I gag. It starts with pig feet. I kid you not,
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Caterpillar Invasion
In all the excitement of the release and some unexpected family issues, we missed our wedding anniversary, which was on August 2. Twenty-two years. 🙂 Now we are being invaded. We keep trying to put them back in the trees and grass, but they are insisting on a suicide march into the pool. We lived
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The Doll House. No, really.
Check this out. If you’re in Richmond, Texas, and have a million or so lying around, do I have the house for you. Five bedroom 1/2 bath, 7, 406 sq ft, 2 acres and this. Must see to believe. More at this link.