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Monday Musings: Words, Phrases & Inclusiveness?

Words matter – it is true. What of course isn’t as simple, is how much does a word or a phrase really matter? In some cases you might just look silly, smart, pompous, or maybe even insensitive. Going to the extremes with just one wrong word, you could lose a fortune or even cost someone […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles January 4, 2021 By SLS

Wacky Weds: Knee Wall Water Line Fail

Really do I need to mention this is a really bad thing in a knee wall area – if so Preventing &/or Fixing Frozen Water Lines

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles April 25, 2018 By SLS

Looking Back & Moving Forward

Since October 2008 the HTRC has posted over 750 articles (this actually makes #758) or on average a little over a 100 pieces a year. Per Google it was quite a great year with a 73% jump in page views, an increased amount of time spent on site, a lower bounce rate, and an additional 300,000 people who visited this site […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles January 2, 2017 By SLS

Who says you cant make money playing with LEGO’s?

I was able to take a rare Monday off with the family and go see the newest exhibit at the Morton Arboretum, “Nature Connects” which if you happen to love(d) playing with LEGO’s this is something to see. Over 494,000 LEGO’s, 27 sculptors led by the 1st “LEGO® Certified Professional” – Sean Kenney spending  4,170 […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles August 18, 2015 By SLS

Illinois GreenBuilt Home Tour 2015

This July 25th & 26th, marks the third year that the USGBC of Illinois has hosted the Green Built Home Tour & my second year participating. Just like last year there are 16 houses on the tour ranging from simple remodels, to custom houses integrating different “green” features. Looking for more cutting edge, some are achieving “net-zero” usage to one that is still […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles July 15, 2015 By SLS

We have moved…

It is official, The HTRC has moved completely over to TheHTRC.com and hopefully in short order we will have everything worked out and can start really working more on the appearance and layout. In order to keep receiving email notifications of new articles please click: https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=TheHTRC&loc=en_US Our RSS feed is now: http://thehtrc.com/feed No worries if […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles November 3, 2014 By SLS

Illinois Greenbuilt Home Tour

You can tell when summer is about over, because across the country many home tours get under way. I have been fortunate enough to volunteer and work with some great people on two of them this year and they both kick off this weekend. With that, and as one runs for only this weekend (July 26th & […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles July 23, 2014 By SLS

The year in review

I got to admit, this part of the year is always bitter sweet. It can be fun to look back at what has happened, reminisce about the good, shake ones head at the bad, and simply wonder – what if I had… The other part says, don’t take to long, the future is still ahead & starts […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles Tagged With: Looking Back December 31, 2013 By SLS

My Take: Profoundly Disconnected, the Industry, & Me?

A little over a week ago, Mike Rowe was the keynote speaker (if your pressed for time – scroll to 14:35) at the Skills USA Opening Ceremonies. It is a pretty good talk about the Skills gap, 3 million unfilled jobs, why this is the greatest country, and his new project to help solve this […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles July 9, 2013 By SLS

Did You Know? Consider checking out a park near you on Earth Day

Did you know that there are national parks in 49 of 50 states & most of us live within 100 miles of one?  Did you know that national parks include everything from seashores, battlefields, to historic homes?  Did you know that the country’s highest peak, lowest point, tallest tree, deepest lake, and longest cave are […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles April 22, 2013 By SLS

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