Comments on: The joy of remodeling: sometimes it’s like a box of chocolates! You never know what you get until you open it up! http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/ Seattle's Leading Resource for Real Estate Information Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:01:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-157106 Tim Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:15:55 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-157106 Update: Thanks for the info Sandy! BTW, in fixing up our master bedroom, there was a pencil note scribbled on one of the 2x4's, "House Built by Myron Thomas & Wife ' 72". We are the second owners. I always think it's pretty neat when a couple actually builds a home with their own hands. There's an authenticity to it that makes it great. So, I did the same and placed our name next to theirs for future remodelers. Update: Thanks for the info Sandy! BTW, in fixing up our master bedroom, there was a pencil note scribbled on one of the 2×4’s, “House Built by Myron Thomas & Wife ‘ 72″. We are the second owners. I always think it’s pretty neat when a couple actually builds a home with their own hands. There’s an authenticity to it that makes it great.

So, I did the same and placed our name next to theirs for future remodelers.

]]> By: Sandy http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-157104 Sandy Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:02:32 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-157104 Curiosity got to me so I did a little internet research. Cragmont was a safeway brand, which has now been replaced by Select. Not that this is a definitive source or anything... http://www.flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/195094166/ (copy and paste URL, I am too lazy to code this morning). Curiosity got to me so I did a little internet research. Cragmont was a safeway brand, which has now been replaced by Select.

Not that this is a definitive source or anything…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/195094166/

(copy and paste URL, I am too lazy to code this morning).

]]> By: Sandy http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-157103 Sandy Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:58:03 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-157103 Yes, Cragmont was defnitely local. I think you could only get it in WA, OR, ID and MT. Might have been a store brand of Associated Grocers (our grocery stores on Whidbey were AG stores...but I think AG is out of business now too?). Yes, Cragmont was defnitely local. I think you could only get it in WA, OR, ID and MT. Might have been a store brand of Associated Grocers (our grocery stores on Whidbey were AG stores…but I think AG is out of business now too?).

]]> By: Reba Haas http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-156858 Reba Haas Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:52:21 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-156858 Cragmont must have been local because as a kid growing up in Kansas I never heard of this stuff and I've never seen it in the 19 years I've lived in Seattle. Cragmont must have been local because as a kid growing up in Kansas I never heard of this stuff and I’ve never seen it in the 19 years I’ve lived in Seattle.

]]> By: Holly http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-156779 Holly Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:20:24 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-156779 That reminds me of the time we were rehabbing the shower in our lower level bathroom a few years back. The previous owners gave up on the project and walled it in with a piece of wallboard. When we tore out the wallboard, we found an old Compaq server. Yes, someone walled up a computer in the old shower. By the time we sold the house last year, my husband hadn't gotten around to finding out if there was anything on said computer, so I made him recycle it. That reminds me of the time we were rehabbing the shower in our lower level bathroom a few years back. The previous owners gave up on the project and walled it in with a piece of wallboard. When we tore out the wallboard, we found an old Compaq server. Yes, someone walled up a computer in the old shower.

By the time we sold the house last year, my husband hadn’t gotten around to finding out if there was anything on said computer, so I made him recycle it.

]]> By: Sandy http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-156771 Sandy Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:25:47 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/2007/07/05/the-joy-of-remodeling-sometimes-its-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-you-get-until-you-open-it-up/#comment-156771 Awesome! I remember Cragmont--and the pull-top cans! The general consensus at South Whidbey Elementary School was that Cragmont was what your parents bought if they were poor, or didn't love you enough to buy Pepsi or Coke. We drank a lot of Cragmont at my house...many a childhood argument with my mother revolved around whether Cragmont did or did not taste "just like the real thing." Do they still make it I wonder? Haven't seen it in years but maybe I am not shopping at the right places. Awesome! I remember Cragmont–and the pull-top cans! The general consensus at South Whidbey Elementary School was that Cragmont was what your parents bought if they were poor, or didn’t love you enough to buy Pepsi or Coke.

We drank a lot of Cragmont at my house…many a childhood argument with my mother revolved around whether Cragmont did or did not taste “just like the real thing.”

Do they still make it I wonder? Haven’t seen it in years but maybe I am not shopping at the right places.

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