Piper hopes you all had a wonderfully relaxing and/or productive weekend and your Monday is off to an excellent start. #PiperPug #OTHPiper #Pug #RescuePug #rescuedog #rescuedogsofinstagram #rescuepugs #waterfront #morningvibes #bonesday instagr.am/p/Cgt_T8Os9ui/

Side projects are fun 😂 • Sure we may be working on restoring a few of our original windows. • We are, in fact, preparing to begin a complete kitchen renovation. • We are gathering supplies and tools to reframe and re-deck our entire dock. • Ye… instagr.am/p/ChXaWKHrzKo/

Last night we got a rare treat for a few moments. Just before sunset during #goldenhour and as the sun dropped behind the trees across the street, the sunlight came in through our guest bathroom window, streamed off of the beadboard on the underside of t… instagr.am/p/Chr8TSIL9On/

Here’s a little photo dump of our utterly exhausting weekend working on our dock rebuild. • Mother Nature was kind to us and gave us much more comfortable temperatures and beautiful scenery than last weekend. This allowed us to accomplish far more w… instagr.am/p/Ci_q1SZthQv/

The last 20 years have been nothing short of a whirlwind. During that time Wendy Santantonio and I have built our life, family, hobbies, interests, and relationship together into something we both cherish. One of our favorite things to do together is to exp… instagr.am/p/CjoP1ndtwbH/

Look at this adorable Extra Terrestrial Pug! Wendy Santantonio threw together this costume for her office #HalloweenParty and there’s obviously no way she wouldn’t win #bestcostume 🤣. Piper was an absolute champ and seemed to love every minute of the ev… instagr.am/p/CkRdfY2JN8L/

🌈After all of our hard work on the dock yesterday, we not only gained an hour last night but we were also treated to a rare #goldenhour #rainbow over our house this morning just after #sunrise. • We have a full day of dock work to get as close as we… instagr.am/p/CkoFNTNpSya/

Tons more dock progress today and we are loving how it’s coming together. The lighting has added a whole extra level of early evening ambiance that has never existed before. No longer will be need to use our phone’s flashlight to keep from walking off th… instagr.am/p/Cko_BoIpcqF/

This is our dock, 99% complete! • What started as a somewhat ambitious project on September 17 more or less wrapped up this weekend. (I’m debating whether we should put one last fascia board on the right side of the final section 🙃.) • This is one of… instagr.am/p/Ck6-_OJJZV3/

If MJ’s Thriller came out 40 years and I was already such a fan that my mom bought me a pleather Thriller jacket that I wore into kindergarten and all of the girls went crazy when I walked into class wearing it (true story), that means… I’m so old. #Thriller40

We made a nest cam livestream and the Eagles made a return today. Here’s a clip youtube.com/clip/Ugkx7ZdNJ…

December in #OldTownAlexandria is a very special month for Wendy Santantonio and me. From the #ScottishChristmasWalk all the way through #FirstNightAlexandria the town is full of festive joy, holiday decor, twinkling lights, and bustling sidewalks. • T… instagr.am/p/ClwEstWr1K_/

ICYMI Wendy Santantonio and I are sharing details of our #Scandinavian and #Nordic vacation in stories. While there we • 1. 🇸🇪Picked up our new #Volvo in Sweden 2. 🇸🇪Explored #göteborg 3. 🇫🇮Went to the #ArcticCircle 4. 🇫🇮Became #dogsledding pilots 5. … instagr.am/p/CnuYSuyrhNB/

Fact: Salads made my someone else always taste better than salads made by you.

This is kitchen renovation 😬. • Don’t be fooled by all those glamorous photos of cabinet, appliance, and countertop installs, if you aren’t making an absolute mess first you may just be putting lipstick on a pig 😂. • These are the prerequisite step… instagr.am/p/CoiOzQXpbAt/

🥂We decided to celebrate the return of our neighborhood Osprey with a glass of sparkling on the newly rebuilt pier. Apparently both Truman and Piper also seemed to enjoy the moment. • So it seems we have a new Osprey couple in residence vs Ben and M… instagr.am/p/Cp8x0l6N_kD/

Work in progress! Half way done. The left door is repainted using Benjamin Moore Advance high gloss in Onyx. The door on the right is looking a little worse for wear. • We built these French doors from salvaged sidelights in 2012 and have loved them… instagr.am/p/Crlx1GYp0xF/

It’s taken us a long time but our confidence in our garden has grown exponentially the last few years. • When we bought our house we didn’t know the level of maintenance a real garden needed. We were used to our small row house’s back yard and front… instagr.am/p/CsXk10ntwlI/

Me running to Twitter to see who is running to Twitter to make the same joke about running to Twitter to see if Instagram is down.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has officially reached saturation. Indy 500, we do hope to see you today, it the shelter in place rain lightning and weather delay…I give it 1 star.