Posts filed under Homeownership

I feel like I’m waking up from some kind of dream/hallucination in which I had major surgery to remove my appendix while 4 months pregnant; went to two Thanksgivings; celebrated my husband’s 30th and my 29th birthdays; took care of a child with a cold and a double ear infection; wrote a statistics paper and [...]

Yesterday, I painted our bedroom. While lots of folks maintain that your new apartment, house, trailer, or lean-to is not truly yours until the last moving box is unpacked and broken down, I like to think that slapping some paint on a few walls is a truer test. Covering up that “new tenant” [...]

After a Friday spent swimming, eating, and petting the chickens (no euphemism there – this is Maine after all) at my company picnic, we Ragozzines of Maine girded ourselves against an invasion of blues-loving music fans. This weekend, Rockland hosted the 15th Annual North Atlantic Blues Festival, though considering how many attendees were walking [...]

As I have detailed in the past here and here, I think I am the center of universal attention — hence the blog and all. Despite my debilitating self-absorption, I actually managed to ride my new bike to work last week without breaking out in a nervous sweat (or any sweat at all; the two-mile [...]

Last night was our free estimate appointment with a local contractor — we’re hoping to put up a two-car garage. Not having a garage stinks, especially in Maine where winters are cold and snowy. Plus, it’d be cherry to have a place to store the lawnmower, snowblowerthrower, bikes, and sundry other things that we don’t [...]

Picture yourself in front of an impossibly tall door that can easily be opened, but not by you. Imagine, if you will, the sound of a small hand smacking against a pane of glass. Visualize the frantic motions of someone whose dexterity is still in beta development, spurred into action by a burning need to [...]