Tag: home repairs

• What is the Deal with Toilets: A Reluctant Buyer’s Guide

  Over the past year at the corona cabin, we’ve been making quite a few updates and changes to our little chocolate box. We gave the front porch a refresh, replacing the old-fashioned wood balusters with a cool wire system and painting the door and railings black. We swapped in new appliances throughout the house, including…

  thepoelog

  November 15, 2021

  Home (slice)

  cabin living, corona cabin, home repairs

• Eight Reasons We Need a Real Housewives of the Olympic Village

  The Olympics are on and they are totally messing with my Bravo viewing. I’m not a fan of the Olympics and not just because of the TV viewing disruption. I just think in this day and age, when there are so many other platforms and international competitions and accompanying viewing options for all of your…

  thepoelog

  August 9, 2016

  opinions (big book of), reality (not)

  Andy Cohen, Bravo, cupping (not supportive), home repairs, luggage problems, Olympic Village, Olympics, Real Housewives of Whatever, Rio, spa day, Tinder-letes, trampolines, yachts

• Home Renovations and Cambodia’s Spirit Houses

  There is an old Cambodian saying: “Open the walls of your house with caution. On the one hand, the evil spirits will be set loose. But on the other hand, you will discover all the mischief they caused behind your walls.” That’s not really a Cambodian saying, but it totally should be. Especially considering the…

  thepoelog

  August 18, 2015

  Home (slice), travel

  Cambodia, crappy contractors, evil spirits, home repairs, money flying out the windows, Spirit houses

• I Bet Princess Kate Doesn’t Have to Deal With Dirty Gutters

  I got back from Naples, Italy very late last Wednesday and I’m suffering from carb withdrawals. A pasta depression, if you will. For example, when I walk downstairs for breakfast in the mornings now, there is no artful display of delicious Italian pastries and nobody brings me a frothy cappuccino. There are no royal apartments…

  thepoelog

  December 15, 2014

  Home (slice), travel

  acting a fool, Domestic bliss, home repairs, Italy, Naples

• SOLD

  So, we bought a house. A townhouse here in Old Town, Alexandria, to be more precise. Wait, did I mention that here? I’m not sure if I did or not. It all happened quite fast and now seems beyond surreal. Ah yes, I see that I did mention it. But it bears repeating again. It seems…

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  July 12, 2012

  Home (slice)

  closets, glittery sink, home repairs, house buying, Old Town