Doubt kills a lot of dreams, especially when you feel like you don’t have anything left to give anymore like you’re all washed up. This post is about second chances, like the decades-old speakers my husband and I pulled out of storage and put back to work. You never know when your skillset will be needed, or when the new skills you learn along the way will lead you to a second chance. Read more about it on “Washed Up Speakers and Thanksgiving,” on MGSpear.com.
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Socks is at it again, showing that cats will never give up on their antics. You truly cannot do any house project without a cat taking advantage. Read what he’s up to on “Cats Always Win in the End,” on MGSpear.com.
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You know it will be an interesting evening when the husband busts out a new tool to attempt an oil change late at night when you are ready for bed. Does it work out in the end? Do the kitties get in the way? Find out in “Attack of the Late-Night Oil Change,” on MGSpear.com.
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We’ve been doing more house projects recently, and usually we get them completed in a reasonable amount of time. However this time, when we decided to get some concrete poured the heavens opened up and rained down on our forms for about a week. Can you imagine how much mud that was? And of course the dogs didn’t help things by walking in it.
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A few years ago my husband and I went through a cancer scare. Guess what was the solution? Clean water. Apparently our water supplier had not been letting the residents know the drinking water was not safe.
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What happens when your kitties decide to redecorate? Why, shred the carpet so you have to replace the floors. Eh, it was due to get replaced in the future anyway; I guess they wanted the timeline moved up.
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When we were working on our hardwood floors, my husband was laying down vapor barrier one day and our kitties, Socks and Elsa, thought it would be hilarious to jump around and knead on the barrier, putting little holes in it. My husband kept shooing them away, and they kept coming back. He tossed their […]
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Sometimes bad days just happen. One Christmas Eve we were coming back home late at night, happy, laughing, and looking forward to spending the holiday with more family. We walk into our house, and all seems well. My husband decides he is going to take a quick shower. I’m bringing in our dogs from letting […]
Read MoreOver the summer my husband decided that our house was too humid and bought a dehumidifier. He liked it; I didn’t care. Then he decided to get another one to get rid of all the leftover humidity. He liked it; I was mildly annoyed. Then he decided to get another one and move two of […]
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