Last night Jude and I dashed down to Carlton Landing to spend the night since I was able to get the cable guy finalized for Friday. So we are here for a few days and I’ve already hung the drapes (ermm, they’re too long GAHHHH) and the electrician is here now working on a few […]

The greatly anticipated day of moving into our lake house at Carlton Landing finally arrived last week. Allow me to regale you with tales of flat tires, flat air mattresses, quickly hastened curse words, muttered death threats under one’s breath, and glorious shining moments of beauty amongst an an otherwise stressful moving weekend. The highlights […]

  Since Jude was out of school on Monday, I figured it was as great a time as any to hop in the car and take a little jaunt to Carlton Landing to check on the progress of our house. I had a light fixture that needed to be delivered, so off we went.  My […]

Several years ago there was a show on HGTV in which a very exuberant host would proudly proclaim with a broad hand gesture, “I’m Michael Payne and THIS is DESIGNING FOOOOR THE SEXES.” Then there would be a half hour where the husband wanted a man cave but the wife wanted a Victorian boudoir and Michael […]