I love owning our own home. It's feels good to make changes and decisions and not ask the landlord. We pulled all our carpet out and have nice hardwood floors in the bedrooms but the living room needed new flooring.
We paid quite a bit of money and put in a new floor. Tad did most of the work and I am so happy with the results. We still need to get baseboards and maybe paint down the road. I know that is backwards but oh well. We have other ideas for our house. We are going to get rid of the front fence. Tad has been wanting to do this forever and I didn't want it but he does the mowing so I am letting him decide on this. I put up and ad and had three emails about it.
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I haven't ever been a fan of canned soup. It just doesn't appeal to me but if you take canned soup and spice it up it can be good. Here is a recipe for cheddar potato soup.

You will need two cans of Campbells cream of cheddar soup.
Milk
celery
potatoes
bacon or bacon bits
Chicken broth

Slice up the potatoes into bite sized chunks and slice up some celery. Cut up as much or as little as you want in your soup. Boil them together until tender.

Pour the cheddar soup in a pan and add to cans of milk. Then, heat up a cup of water and make chicken broth and then throw that in the pot of soup.

Add the potatoes and celery into the pot and cook until it's hot to your liking.

Last throw in the bacon bits but if your really crazy about bacon then you would want to fry up some bacon and throw it in the soup before the end.

This is as good as the soup you can get when you go out to eat and much better than just opening up a can. Enjoy it and remember within a few weeks or so you won't want soup because before you know it you will be bitching that it's too hot!!