Miscellaneous Articles

Are you going to use your head for more than a hat rack…?

With a title like that, what else can it be but another Let’s Blog Off? This week question or topic is “The truth of the matter is that none of us gets to where we are alone. We are the products of everywhere we have ever been and everyone we have ever known. So with […]

Monitoring your Electricity Usage with MyUsage and Smart Meters

While catching up on my reading I came across an interesting piece in the Alabama Living magazine & that was that Cullman Electric Cooperative was now allowing one to view their daily electricity usage online. They have joined up with MyUsage.com that provides this service for 41 different utilities, located in 13 different states (3 […]

Let’s Blog Off: What kind of Legacy will you leave?

Ahhh, well here we go again, with another Let’s Blog Off, this time on what is legacy… As is our custom, we will be linking to all those participating in the week’s Lets Blog Off at the end of the article, and with such an eclectic group of bloggers and viewpoints, this ought to be […]

Creativity & finding the right people for your project

For many people, when one starts looking at completing a “small” remodel or addition, the question arises, whom should I bring in? Do I really need a designer, an architect, a general contractor, or… Does anyone want to guess what many of those parties will say if you ask them if you should use their […]

Mike Hines: Witnessing an Extreme Makeover

Social media and blogging are perfect complements – one for the ability to communicate en-masse, the other for offering a portal to expanded thoughts – voice for the masses….with a simple web link in between. For those who follow #letsblogoff you’ll know what I mean, for those unfamiliar with it…do yourself a favor and tune […]

Happy Holidays to all and to all a little festive cheer…

From my family and all of us SLS Construction / AlaGBS, we would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, a Bountiful New Year, and hopefully some festive cheer with some of our favorite parodies, light displays, etc… Let the parodies fly… Twas the Night before Christmas – DIY version (2009 – The HTRC […]

Let’s Blog Off: If money were no object

Ahhh, another Tuesday and another Let’s Blog Off… “For a lot of people, this week brings with it a whole host of thoughts about money and about giving. While it is true that love and time together cannot have a price tag assigned to them, in 2010 it is assumed that objects with price tags […]

Guest Post: Musings on Builder Verification & Certifications

This week for our 200th post, I am honored to do a guest post on Christopher G. Hill’s – Construction Law Musings. Based off the title of his blog, you might have deduced that Mr. Hill specializes in construction law. As an accredited LEED AP, he is also one of those rare individuals that not […]

Organizing the Refrigerator & Freezer

In our last article, we started discussing one of the items in the Holiday Planning Checklist about “inventorying your pantry, refrigerator and freezer and stocking up on non-perishables.” In our last article, we mainly focused on your pantry and organizing it. As promised, in this article we are going to cover the refrigerator & freezer. Organizing & […]

Guest Post: Working in Harmony

This week I was honored to do a guest post on Ana Maria Manzo’s wonderful blog entitled “the place of dreams.” Ana Marie Manzo is an architect that lives & works in Venezuela whom I actually met through Twitter. Per her request, the article was based on one simple word “Harmony.” Coincidently, I am actually […]