Ello, ello!
Given that this will be mostly family & friends visiting our site, thanks for coming! Any others joining our blog journey, welcome to you too! We’re excited to share our musings and adventures with everyone.
We’ve built this blog primarily to share the renovation of our newly acquired 115 year old ranch farmhouse in midtown Atlanta – read Stu’s post about the beginning. But as we’re avid (but still experimenting) cooks, travelers, DIYers, and a little bit of everything else in between, we thought we’d upload some of that fun as well. So here goes nothing! We’d love to hear your feedback and thoughts as we progress…
For those not so close to home, here’s a few caveats about us, and the short history behind the writing styles you may find within these pages:
- Lex was born & raised in the UK for a while, therefore she spells the correct way per the Queen’s established language. Neighbour, colour, favourite, finalise, centre, etc shall all be spelled as such, despite WordPress’ feeble attempts to meld her to the American way. That said, Lex also had stints in Texas, Scotland, France, Italy and other random places so ‘ya’ll’, ‘dude’, ‘aye’, ‘oui’ and ‘chica’ are all as likely to turn up as ‘spiffing’!
- Stu grew up near Philadelphia, land of brotherly love, Amish (and Quakers apparently, who knew?!) and all that. He can be pretty ‘crunchy‘ sometimes. He graduated high school with no shoes on, owned tie dye well into his twenties, and was also known to wear ‘Jesus’ sandals (flip flops) for 10 months of the year, while living in frigid Scotland. Enough said. Oh, and he doesn’t promise Taylor Swift won’t be regularly quoted.
- Lex is also pretty sarcastic, as is Stu. So all attempts at sarcasm will be highlighted in italics, we don’t want to offend anyone.
- Inappropriate jokes are par for the course at all times. Especially during really stressful and/or depressing moments. In fact, for Stu, they are 100% required then. It keeps us smiling.
- Our pets (Maggie the nibbly tabby
clown-in-trainingcat and Edie the little blackdemonlab/hound) are the cutest furry babies in the entire world. Note, we don’t call them the best pets ever… that requires training…but they are freaking ADORABLE. Check out their baby pics below!
- Over the course of the last 10 years of knowing each other, we’ve lived in a combined total of 13 different abodes. We’re expert level packers and movers. All the better if it’s across a country or ocean. We’ve done that 4 times now too.
- We spend a far greater amount of time together than the average couple our age. But we love it and wouldn’t really have it any other way.
- We’re not chefs, we’re cooks. So take our recipes with a pinch of salt (maybe not literally… although most things are improved with salt, so actually go ahead and try…note COOKIES). Stu follows recipes to the tee, studying it with the scientific furor that only a computer scientist could. Lex reads a recipe, then usually does her own thing – ya’ know, art for the sake of art, because why not. Both methods result in some huge wins and some pretty hysterical fails. We’ll tell you about both, promise.
- Despite all appearances that we’re impulsive, we actually take a painstakingly long time to make decisions. A blog post will follow on that specifically. Surprisingly, its something we’re judged about pretty frequently. But consider this, we took 7 years to get married, 6 years to buy a house, 4 years to get a puppy and Lex took 2 years to decide to go to college.
- This whole malarky is based upon a small blog (jokes, they’ve written two books now…) that Lex stumbled upon back in 2012. Both of us got hooked in a matter of a few posts on the helpful guides to DIY and creative ways to update your house, along with random banter that Young House Love provided. Sadly they’ve stopped blogging now, much to our and one million other people’s dismay. However, back in the day, they were just a boy and a girl, standing in front of a house, asking it to love them, and you see where we’re going with this…
So there you are! The key factors you need to know before reading our thoughts. Things may just make a little more sense now. Or you can ignore this, and read at your own risk. Lex’s lifeguarding certificate is well out of date now, so good luck.
