We did it. We finished the first batch of painting. We’re exhausted. I’ve spent the past few days just trying to clean everything up after the disaster we’ve been living in for the past three months. Now it’s finally to…
I’m the Guys
This house turned out to be way way more of a fixer upper than we had any idea. We thought we’d slap a coat of paint on the place and be done. Then there was two months of wallpaper removal,…
Spicy Baked Beans, just in time for the 4th…oops.
I’ve had a note to myself to write about this for weeks. Oops. But hey, the summer’s not over yet, surely we’ll all have more BBQ’s and picnics that call for yummy baked beans. If not, well hey, the note…
Year of Pleasures #2
I’m not a fan of most of our landscaping. I’m actually not a fan of a lot of Southern California landscaping, because so much of it consists exclusively of palm trees and birds of paradise. Our backyard right now is…
Torn between two lovers
We started reading Harry Potter on Saturday. We have a tradition of reading them out loud together, usually Bear reads while I work on one project or another. I can’t bear the thought of buying the book twice like a…
I finished something!
My studio is done. Well not really, but like 75% done. I just need to fuss it up with curtains and pictures on the wall, but I actually get to use it now. Please join me, won’t you? The color…
Year of Pleasures #1
There’s a little birds nest that hangs under the eaves of my roof. When I first saw it I thought that I would have to find a way to move it, due to the enormous pile of bird poo that…
Grammar police
Bear and I were watching TV the other night, and a laundry detergent commercial came on. It was very retro and showed all the generations of women who have been doing laundry, with the dress and the basement décor changing…
Serendipity
I’m a big believer in the theory that some books come to us when we need them. It’s happened over and over again in my life; lessons come from literature for me. This weekend as I was whimpering in pain…
To Do List
Here’s one of the many reasons why I am stressed almost literally out of my mind: It goes to three pages on legal sized paper. And while some of the things on the list have since fallen way way down…