Day 23 of the Coachhouse Final Quest
June 16, 2022 Looks like the subscriptions are finally coming through in email notices! Yahoo! Catch up on the last couple months of...
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- Jun 14
- 2 min
Day 21 of the Coachhouse Final Quest
June 14, 2022- The right tools for the job Today I spent the best hour of the day at my trusted Clark & Devon Hardware. I was lead to...
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- Jun 12
- 1 min
Day 19 of the Coachhouse Final Quest
June 12, 2022- You may notice- the title changed a bit Well, that's because I took a big dose of reality, and chased it with...
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- Jun 11
- 1 min
Day 18 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final Quest
June 11, 2022 - Repurpose. Reuse. This weekend is all about the outside. I simply can't take the view from my back porch anymore. That...
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- Jun 8
- 2 min
Day 17 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final Quest
June 8, 2022- Ain't that a kick in the head Welp- I was just turned down for an ADU grant that I could reeeeeealy use right about now....
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- Jun 7
- 1 min
Day 16 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final Quest
June 7, 2022 I have to take yesterday off. I just couldn't. It was one of those days.... Today, however, was a horse of a different...
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- Jun 5
- 2 min
Day 15 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final Quest
June 5, 2022 I spent an INSANE amount of money on door hardware today. What the heck? My go-to place for anything that I hope not to fall...
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- Jun 2
- 2 min
Day 11 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final Quest
June 2, 2022. I am a woman not to be trifled with. I am not cheap, I am not fussy, I am not demanding, but I do insist that people in my...
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- Jun 1
- 1 min
Day 9 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final Quest
May 31, 2022 Meet my foreman. She's got her eye on the projects and her eye on the prize. She ensures that the details get buttoned up,...
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- May 30
- 2 min
Day 8 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final Quest
May 30, 2022 Just call me Sisyphus. I seemed to have spent my weekend moving things from one place to the next to the next to the next...
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- May 29
- 2 min
Day 7 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final quest
Sunday, May 29, 2022 Doors! Doors have represented both moments of triumph and moments of complete and total frustration in my Coach...
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- May 26
- 1 min
Stumpy's new digs, and the unanticipated porch repair
Thursday May 26, 2022 Meet Stumpy. He's my long time Treehouse Working Cat. He's been with me since the beginning of having my place. 6...
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- May 25
- 2 min
Day 3 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final quest
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Behold! The color of my countertops. Don't be scared, folks- Step right up and take a look. Imagine this in the...
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- May 25
- 2 min
How NOT to install drywall (and how not to pay for it 'till it's right)
See, I have installed drywall. And I have mudded it, and taped it and sanded it. It sucks, because this is not what I do. Now, when one...
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- May 24
- 4 min
Day 1 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final quest
Monday, May 23, 2022 As you all may know, I am an Entertainment Director by trade. That sums up as being someone who does everything from...
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- May 24
- 1 min
Day 2 of the 30-day Coachhouse Final quest
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Tuesday started off early and hot. After running a myriad of errands between 5:30-7am, I came back to find drywall...
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- Apr 10
- 2 min
You can huff, and you can puff, but you won’t blow me down.
Progress!!! This in the face of the odds being against you as a 'green General Contractor" and up against a Chicago Winter that just...
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- Mar 7
- 1 min
Ah! To see artists doing their art.
Vocation as happenstance art making. Who could ask for anything more? Not this gal. Art is what you do with pride, has your hand shown in...
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- Feb 18
- 4 min
What to expect when you are expecting ...respect
This post is in response to a humber of inquiries from friends who have asked what's it like to go through the process. The quick answer...
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- Feb 13
- 2 min
When it's right, it's right
When you need what you need, and want what you want, you do what you gotta do. I have these wonderful friends, Matt and Sapna. They are...
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