This past week Ruth and I finally acquired and installed the final pieces to the remodeled bathroom. The hard work being behind us, its a relative joy to attach the final accouterments. Well, they’re not entirely aesthetic, obviously, as a bathroom ain’t quite complete until it has light and a mirror.
The bathroom renovation is nearly behind us now and only a few more changes are needed to polish the room off. There was an unanticipated complexity in many of the tasks but things progressed on schedule and we weren’t ever derailed for long. Before offering the last piece showing the completed room with [...]
After installing our beautiful new tile throughout the downstairs entryway and bathroom we finally came to the most anticipated part of the project: installation and painting. Deconstruction is a thankless task that only begets more work. But the process of adding new things always improves the environment and each addition rewarded us with a sense [...]
Several years back I developed an interest in applying for Irish citizenship through ancestry. Ireland provides the children and grandchildren of Irish citizens the ability to apply for Irish citizenship and I’d very much like to have dual citizenship. I spent a little time on this a few years back but became totally discouraged with [...]