Sylvia's Scenario

Today, is my last day pet-sitting Lauren's two cats and I'm going to be sad leaving tomorrow because I love her neighborhood. It's been fun exploring it because it is also my old neighborhood where I lived when I was single. Today, Bruce came over with his tool box and proceeded to go around and fix all the little things Lauren pointed out to us to do before she left. (I had a few more items to add to the list after being here a few days.) Eventually, we headed down to her neighborhood hardware store,  Pacific Supply , a store that we're very familiar with from doing repair work at all her previous places. Bruce loves the place.  It's just down from where the original REI store was.  I use to take Nick and Lauren to the old REI store when they were little and it was so much fun.  It was such a unique place.  The store was really huge and old, fun to shop there and always "kid friendly".  Lauren has lived here on Capitol Hill (Seattle's oldest an...

 The Deck Gone Yesterday was a big day for us.  After a year and a half of planning,  Bruce and I are finally starting the remodeling project we've been working on for a new and improved Seattle home.  When we moved here in 2015, we decided we would live in our house two years and then decide what works and what needs improvement.  Well, this is going on our fourth year in Seattle and yes, it has taken us that long to figure it all out. I'm not going to lie, I've gotten impatient, but it is a process.  If you remember my post about the The Wall ,  we knew early on we needed to do something about our dinning room.  For the rest of our ideas, it was a matter of prioritizing and tweaking, determining our budget, deciding who would do it, and then all the little endless details.  It's exhausting.  As you can guess, the main focus will be the deck.  Because of our view, the deck gets used a lot and people gravitate ...