Month: September 2009

Tips and Benefits of Replacing Old Wood Windows

Tips and Benefits of Replacing Old Wood Windows

In an earlier post from December of 2008 I was contemplating replacing most of the original double hung windows in our early twentieth century foursquare / center hall colonial.  Like most decisions involving personal finance I like to make a pros and cons list.   And, at the time, I started with the cons of our old double hung windows: […]

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10 Tips on How to Build a Fire in Your Fireplace

10 Tips on How to Build a Fire in Your Fireplace

Have you noticed the days getting shorter and the local kids walking to get to their first day of school?  Or that the temperature has dropped a bit and you can actually sleep with a breeze coming through your bedroom at night?  Well, if so, you’ve picked up on the fact that September is here and in turn the perfect […]

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Butterflied Whole Chicken on the Grill

Butterflied Whole Chicken on the Grill

Butterflied Whole Chicken on the Grill One of the earliest food memories I have is of Nonna Vincenzina slaughtering a young chicken on Via Nazionale in Calabria.  Nonna simply walked into the chicken coup, grabbed one of my feathery friends, and snapped it’s fragile head (the bird ran around for a few minutes and thereafter dropped to the dirt floor). […]

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