A lot has occurred since we final picked up the podcast mic, so we’ve a jam-packed present to catch you up on all of the issues. We’re speaking home updates, embarrassing tales, renovation plans, and we even labored in some dangerous metaphorical diagrams (as a result of describing graphs and charts you possibly can’t see at all times goes over effectively in an audio format). We’re additionally diving into how home initiatives have slowed down round right here, the remaining initiatives on our listing, and the way our angle in the direction of having much less on our to-do listing has modified fairly dramatically over time. Plus an impromptu musical train that captured our household’s contentment for dwelling in a smaller house, and why Sherry can by no means present her face in a single Florida metropolis once more. Additionally, a enjoyable vacation recreation and the TV present we’ve been dying to inform you about.
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What’s New
- We shared within the episode why we’re not returning to weekly podcasting, however our hope is to drop in periodically with massive catch-up episodes like this one. And above, you possibly can see our additional fancy recording set-up from earlier this week once we recorded (and the Ikea cupboard packing containers that we talked about within the background).
- You possibly can scroll down our weblog’s homepage to see any and all home updates you would possibly’ve missed over the past yr, however some particular issues we talked about within the episode embody our new pool, the pantry we added to our kitchen, the closet we added to our bed room, our little firepit space, our hanging daybed, and our current kitchen porch (and right here’s what the within of the kitchen seems like lately).
- Moreover, we shared a vacation present information, an replace on our household room, 7 of our favourite storage items that assist our home work more durable, and a tribute to our canine Burger, who handed away in October. We by no means tire of photos of him, so right here’s one for good measure:
- As for that slim drawer we spoke of subsequent to our range, right here’s a photograph from an outdated kitchen group submit, again when it housed a single bottle of olive oil (and a jar of salt). It’s also possible to see how the frames on these outdated cupboards take up numerous area. We’ll achieve much more storage with our newer frameless cupboards (particularly as a result of we’re shifting the range over a bit).
- We additionally spoke about paving our entrance driveway in some unspecified time in the future, since we at the moment have this fancy pine-straw-over-sand setup (are you able to see my tire marks beneath?). Though our new favourite parking spot is across the facet (proper off the brand new kitchen porch) – so this spot will largely be for company. Yup, we’re nonetheless a one automobile family and we nonetheless have the identical 8 yr outdated Toyota Highlander (150,000 miles and going sturdy!).
- If we have been ever to assemble the “visitor home” constructing (aka: our shed with a mattress), it will mainly go behind that giant tree the place the inexperienced fence is (the pool is on the opposite facet of the fence). Clearly we’d should reconstruct the fence otherwise, however our total aim was to work round that attractive tree!
- Additionally, Sherry talked about that “circles make you content,” which is one thing we discovered from the guide Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee. We mentioned the guide in Episode #130 and later interviewed Ingrid in Episode #136!
What’s Not Sport: Vacation Cities
That’s Embarassing
- We didn’t seize Sherry’s embarassing second in St. Augustine on digicam (mercifully for everybody concerned) however fortunately it didn’t dampen our enjoyment of this lovely historic metropolis – which we occurred to catch simply after it was lit up for the vacation season!
We’re Digging
- That is the weighted blanket Sherry sleeps with each night time (it’s the OG I gave her years in the past as a Christmas current). The washable cowl, softness, and not-too-hot material is what she considers a number of of its finest options.
- However in case you’re on the lookout for a lighter possibility, that is the furry throw blanket we obtained just lately for our downstairs couch. The entire household is obsessive about (we’ve it within the impartial shade).
- Right here you possibly can see the mattress made with Sherry’s weighted blanket below the quilt on her facet (hello once more, Burger!). So it positively could be made into the mattress pretty discreetely.
When you’re on the lookout for one thing we’ve dug in a previous episode, however don’t bear in mind which present notes to click on into, right here’s a grasp listing of every part we’ve been digging from all of our previous episodes. It’s also possible to see all of the books we’ve beneficial on our E book Membership web page.
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Thanks for listening, guys!
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