Horrifying Education Statistic of the Day

Words in an average 14 year old’s vocabulary in 1955: 25,000.
Words in an average 14 year old’s vocabulary in 2005: 10,000.
Now, as with all statistics, we must be careful here. Are we talking about comprehension or usage? Speaking or writing? This is complicated stuff, friends, but the gist is that our kids aren’t learning (and/or [...]

The Guest Bedroom

End of the hall in the basement.  This room will come in handy when a.) we have guests and b.) the upstairs is too hot during the summer to sleep.

The Family Room

The basement living room.  The couch bequeathed to Paul (from his days of playing Golden Eye, Mario Kart and Mario Golf with Chris and Heather in Seattle) will be making an appearance as soon as we can find a way to get it from Laramie to here.  This room has been a cool retreat from [...]

The Office

Across the hallway from the master bedroom.

The Master Bedroom

The the left past the dinning room at the end of the hallway.  Don’t think there’s much else to say about it.

The Kitchen

Both ends of the galley style kitchen.  Paul had the ingenius idea to turn part of our shelves into a pot rack.  Kudos to Dan and Abbey for turning the top part of the other set of shelves into a wine glass rack for us as well.  We love it!

The Dinning Room

The dinning room is just to the left when you enter through the front door, the living room in to the right.  It’s far more more dorm room chic than the living room, but the dresser/buffet won’t always be white and pink, and we’ll eventually have a dinning room set that seats me than two [...]

The Living Room

The upstairs living room.  You walk into this room when you enter the house through the front door.  The natural light in this room is great.  So great, in fact, we realized that our loveseat and couch are actually different colors.  Same color scheme, just differnt shades.  Seems rather ironic that I decided to splurge [...]

The Back Yard

Pictures taken from the deck and next to the shed, respectively.  The weed infested hole and connectcting sidewalk to the left in the second picture have been dug up and demolished, thanks to Paul.  There are pictures of that project somewhere as well.  They’ll eventually get posted too.  But probably not until that project is completely [...]

The Front Yard

There’s not too much to say about the front yard.  Neither one of us are particularly happy with any of the landscaping.  We’ve already torn out two juniper bushes to the right of the front steps and we have a long way to go and a lot of ideas before it becomes something we’re happy [...]