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Category: My Dreamhouse in Progress (page 10)

Friday on hiatus

Posted on: April 14, 2007 Last updated on: November 11, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
I Can Make that Friday will be postponed this week. Saturday will be spent doing out home inspection, so I have to sharpen my pencils, charge up the camera, and get the graph paper ready. How I’ll get to sleep…
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Knock on Wood

Posted on: April 10, 2007 Last updated on: November 11, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
It looks like somebody finally decided to take our money. For a while there I was really starting to feel like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman as she’s sitting in the hotel managers office pulling out wads of crinkled bills,…
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Housing Crisis

Posted on: March 22, 2007 Last updated on: November 11, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
With Bear out of town I’ve been trying to take advantage of the time as best I can by doing all the things I love to do that he doesn’t. I love to go thrift store shopping, but Bear hates…
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