(Aaron again)

Reminder to myself for the future: https://fortress.wa.gov/lni/bbip/search.aspx

Been looking into getting some electrical work done, so this is helpful to make sure the people I speak with are licensed (and for how long they’ve been doing their stuff…)

While I am…

We’re heading to the Seattle Home Show later this afternoon with our friends Mike and Elisabeth, our usual partners in crime for this particular event. We haven’t always had a great need to visit the show, as it is mostly focused…

John Schochet, a friend of mine, linked to a great presentation that actually makes the subprime mortgage mess begin to make sense. If you don’t understand the whole fiasco (and I mostly do, but man is it complicated!), check out…

In a previous post, I mentioned ordering an historic photo of our house. (along with, of course, my posts on sketch drawings of the place.)

We finally got in the photograph of our house, from back in 1938 (and yes, it’s got for-sale…

Joelle and I have been pretty lazy about cleaning up leaves that had fallen on our front lawn this past fall. To be fair: there’s a couple of reasons for this:

1. Seattle’s been very rainy this fall/winter, and who wants to…

For the record, relating to my last post - I also drew up my vision of a house at http://drawahouse.com. Of course, I didn’t read the instructions that this was actually supposed to be our house - just an image…

Many of my loyal readers have asked me for a picture of what our new house looks like…. Thankfully, Joelle finally took a good photo of our place!
Great job - this one goes on the fridge :)

(from http://www.drawahouse.com - not drawn…

I love when people having historic photos of their houses up as artwork, so I decided to search for the information on they got these (so we can have one too…)

http://www.raincityguide.com/2007/04/14/historic-photos-of-your-seattle-home/

has all of the info. Sending an email to them…

(And yes, I am finally blogging after a bit of a break. Decided there were some pictures I needed to get off of my camera, plus people keep bugging me)

A week or so ago was a weird weekend of weather…