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Showing posts with label home management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home management. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Organizing

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I was too tired yesterday to do anything. I just watched the impeachment trial the whole afternoon and watered the plants. I planned to orga...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Electric Cable Finally Raised

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The Meralco app works! I've reported issues a couple of times and more often than not it's resolved immediately. One issue though ha...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Firewalls have Ears and What You Can Teach Your House Staff

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Anakin and Bailey probably felt I was getting anxious over the screamfest happening across our firewall. They had me go towards a "safe...
Monday, August 25, 2025

The Drawer of Shame (Managing Clutter)

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A few years ago, my neighbor gave me advise on how she deals with clutter. She places new packages or a random item that needs to be stored ...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Summer Home Management To-Dos

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In the past three years since we moved to our home, we've always had to do repairs and tweaks to our house. The first two years was focu...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Staycation...

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We were forced to go on a staycation ... A literal one once it's just down our hallway 😄  We were getting settled for bedtime the other...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Saturday Around the House

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I dedicated the day to small bits of housework. I watered the plants, played with the cats, did some cooking and chatted with a friend who l...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

New Pest Control Provider

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We decided to change our pest control provider. The last one did well for five years, but they've been having internal issues which caus...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Why It's Important to Fix Roof Leaks

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The fire that happened behind our home really put us on the edge. The fire started because water leaked in the room and an outlet got wet. I...
Monday, April 22, 2024

New Gate with Paw Prints

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We finally got rid of the polycarbonate we've been using to divide the cat family areas. We had a gate installed last weekend. We chose ...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Summer Spruce Up

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Our house used to be the newest on our street. Not anymore since our neighbors had their homes renovated after we moved in. The construction...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Useful Online Buys

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We go out once in awhile to do errands and buy stuff we need, nothing beats the convenience though of buying things online. Of course, befor...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Got Some Wall and Post Lamps

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The lamp on our front window hasn't been working for awhile now. I also noticed it deteriorated a lot over the past year. We had an elec...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Discovered a Leak :(

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Last Friday, I was suddenly inspired to re-organize my Yoda collection. Miggy had fixed it a few months ago, but there were still some unbox...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Doing Some Decorating

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We took down most of our Christmas decors last week. The only one left standing is our ginormous Christmas tree. I originally wanted to remo...
Monday, January 8, 2024

Goals for Our Home this Year

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We missed meeting our goal to have our home ready for visitors by a small margin. We would have met it if we didn't lose a month and a h...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

Stories from Old Treasures

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We finally started to clear my childhood home. It took me months before I could start working on it. To be honest, it did not feel right to ...
Monday, October 9, 2023

An Extraordinary Week

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We've been puttering around our house a lot more lately. I got to spend a lot more time gardening and cooking last week. My endurance se...
Monday, October 2, 2023

The Path to Our Current Home

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After our wedding, my sister gave me very sound advice. She said, "Your first home doesn't have to be your forever home." She ...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Collecting Rain Water

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My plants prefer rain water over rested* Maynilad water. We collect rain water for the plants and switch to regular water during dry months....