As many homeowners know, hardwood floors and sneaky dogs don’t always mix. Whether you have a cute puppy who is just learning how to be house trained or an older dog that simply forgets where to “go”, there’s almost always a point when you’ll have little liquid accidents on your hardwood floors.

The black urine stain left by our little dog. The stain is totally dry.When caught quickly, most pet urine can be wiped up with a minimum of damage …

I just wanted to wish you all happy holidays and a happy new year!

I haven’t written much lately because, honestly, I haven’t had much time to work on the house now that I have a toddler running around and the weather has turned colder. I still have some home projects that I’ve worked on that I hope to share with some of you.

I hope to soon write up a nice long tutorial on some easy ways to put up crown molding and in the spring I hope to have all sorts of gardening advice to …

Yet another thing to fix…I haven’t posted for a while because the main hard drive on my PC began making some darn awful noises on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and totally died about 24 hours later. It was nearly a week before I was able to get a new hard drive installed, but then I had some problems with loading software and it wasn’t until yesterday that I was really able to get everything up and running again to the point that …

I just thought I’d post a quick update of projects I have going on around my house at the moment. I haven’t actually accomplished much in the last several weeks because I’ve been fighting a nasty head cold and it’s either been too rainy or too hot outside to spend any more than an hour or two working on any one project. We had a month long dry spell here in central NJ and then just had three solid days of rain, so I don’t think I’ve had to mow my lawn in about five weeks. It …