John & Colette’s Adventures

I built a couple shelves so I can stand up and work. It's supposed to be better for you than sitting on your butt all day.  I just used random scrap wood so looks aren't that great. Some early observations: I need to angle the keyboard so the back is lower than the front. The [...]

I send a bi-weekly invoice to our office manager and I've gotten bored with the standard email so a few months ago I started writing silly messages. Here's this week's: We find our brave engineer on the outskirts of a small town in northern New England. He's holed up in a small, but comfortable, cape [...]

The car has been acting up lately. We would get into the car and couldn’t turn it on when using the keyless ignition. We’d just get the blinking red key symbol. Replacing the batteries in the fobs had no effect. It was quite annoying! Yesterday I took it into the Nissan dealer and after about [...]

I’ve uploaded some photos from our last trip with Globus & Cosmos (where Colette worked while we were in Denver) to the Canadian Rockies. It was an excellent trip from Calgary through Banff and on to Vancouver. Click here to go see the mountains.

Forgot to include that we had Jacque & Terry & Alex visit us for about a week. We met up with them in Boston and spent a couple days down there playing tourists. We then took Amtrak back up to Portland and introduced them to Maine – “the way life should be” (must be true [...]

We took our old kitchen cabinets and hung them down in the basement (drilling into concrete with a plain drill – not fun). The island we raised up 6″ and turned into a bar. I hung up some dry wall, ran some power & hung lights and this week we finally put up a dart [...]

Now that I’m on Facebook, I find I update this site less & less. As evidence, I give you the fact that we went down to Australia for over 2 weeks and nary a word of the event could be found on our site! I’ll be posting pics soon, but in summary the trip was [...]

A few before & after pics: Before After New Track Lights

After losing power for 36 hours during the last storm I finally went out and bought a generator. Unfortunately I couldn’t find one with electric start. Oy! I wish I hadn’t waited until the last minute. That electric start would have been nice.

We had about 36 hours of no power on Friday & Saturday. The Northeast got hit with a nice ice storm that of course knocked out power to most people along the coast. I guess there were about 260,000 in Maine without power – even more in NH. We’re feeling lucky we got it back [...]