Author: Paul B.

One of the nicest things about these air cleaners are the HEPA filters inside. I like it when something costly lasts for a long time. I paid more money than I would like to confess buying a peppermint scented holiday candle last year, however it absolutely survived for three months. Ounce for ounce, it was […]

I’ve been trying to lower my utility bill for over a year now, next to my mortgage payment, my utility bill is my second highest biweekly expense. I can control my heat as well as air usage, so I’ve been trying to run my HVAC system more efficiently. I started by hiring an HVAC professional […]

Ever since I was a young girl I’ve been told that I have an excellent personality, and i am a easily outgoing person and I have consistently loved being around the dealer of others; This personality trait of mine has allowed me to land successful tasks, and now that I am much older I am […]

With my partner, one has to keep pressing when it comes to getting stuff that we need. He’s the one who worries about spending money. And I’m more like what’s the use of having money if you don’t use it. So the fact that it took 7 years for us to get a smart temperature […]

From our experience, this summer time has to be the most comfortable of all of them since we’ve been residing way out here. Living off the grid has been something of a lifetime pursuit that we turned into reality. It took a mixture of luck, hard work, and persistence for any of this to happen. […]

It’s not all that easy parenting several kids. Just ask my spouse. When we started our family, we thought we wanted the giant family with like 7 youngsters. Thankfully, we stopped at the fourth one. Even so, now that we have four kids running around, we hardly get time to just soak up the air […]

When dad was giving up the ghost, he wanted my sibling and I to be there to ensure that we kept the cabin in the family. He wasn’t so distraught about anything else which was very interesting. But he was adamant that we would never sell the place once he was gone. Honestly, I don’t […]

At the end of the day, I for sure like coming to the house to see my family. No matter what sort of mood or what sort of drama is happening, I enjoy being with them each night and jump at any chance I get. But if I’m being honest, that’s not what I’m thinking […]

Sometimes life can make you happy. Of course, like everyone else, I didn’t see the pandemic coming. But it happened and I had to adjust just like the rest of the world. Almost instantaneously, the company I worked for closed the offices and we had to go home to figure out how to work remotely. […]

It’s still a bit strange to get used to something different after years of knowing only one way. For me, it was suddenly learning how not to live with my partner. But that’s what seemed to be best for my partner and I. Once our kids went off to college things got awkward and our […]

Thankfully, our winter time is a mild one so our Heating and A/C specialist had given us the gift of a head start when it came to the summer. Each fall, the Heating and A/C specialist comes out to the lakehouse to do the routine A/C heating maintenance. This is followed each Spring by the […]