Homestead

Joshua on February 14th, 2009

After many years of sleeping on a mattress we hate we finally broke down and bought another one using some of our tax return. We’re doing our part to stimulate the economy. Our old mattress wasn’t cheap, but it did suck. And continues to suck in new ways all the time. First it was too […]

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Amber on December 8th, 2008

After dinner on Saturday 12/6 we walked down to the Wells Branch Homestead for their annual visit of Santa and luminaries.  The trails around Katherine Fleischer Park are lit up with hundreds of beautiful luminaries. Santa was visiting from 6-9.  We got there right at 6.  Good thing, because this Santa was a talker!  He […]

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Joshua on August 10th, 2008

Here is the breakdown of what it took to go from brown to green in our lawn. Pick Mattock $30 Fertilizer $14 Rake(broke our 10 year old one) $15 Sod (2 pallets) $270 Sod Delivery $65 Drum roller rental(2 days) $25 But then we sold our extra sod and pieces for $50. This was a […]

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Joshua on August 9th, 2008

Our new lawn is in.  It looks great.  It was a lot of work, but it looks so much better. After I wrote about the lawn last we really didn’t have much time to work on it.  We did decide to go with Palmetto St. Augustine.  It is one of the newer varieties and popular […]

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