Posted in Other Projects on Jun 26th, 2008
I spent the better part of my waking hours today breathing the soup fresh-air of Summer and slogging around through this…
… in a cracked work boot that allowed mud and small bits of grit to seep up around my toes.
Which didn’t even faze me, because first, we are making some serious progress on that big-ass wall.
And more [...]
Posted in Memorial House on Jun 23rd, 2008
If you’re wondering what this is… it’s a picture of me, falling in love.
Yes, with rusted, cracked, apparently duct-taped, windows… which happen to belong to this:
Look. At. All. That. Space. For. Tools.
Is there anyone else in the world who looks at this picture and gets a little weak in the knees?
This dilapitated little building has [...]
Posted in Other Projects, The Fam on Jun 18th, 2008
It has been a long time since I have stepped in the shower at the end of the day and watched the water flowing to the drain turn black. And not resulting from a skin condition either… this is from what I like to call a really hard days work.
For the next couple of weeks, [...]
Posted in Entryway, House Projects on Jun 13th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I started my big summer project (big being a very relative term as it definitely is not as big as, say, a badass pergola), which, in case you missed that post, is to rehab the entryway of my darling 80 year old house.
Step one in this process was to remove the crumbled-to-shit iron [...]
Posted in Eat Happy! on Jun 12th, 2008
Because I know you haven’t salivated nearly enough yet today…
The one good thing about being booted mercilessly out of Spring and into the hot, muggy oppressiveness of Summer? Cookout days are back again! (Not that we weren’t grilling out in the dead of winter dressed in all-out north-pole-expedition type gear… okay, okay, in the spirit [...]
"I wear a toolbelt and go barefoot the way other girls wear Prada and heels."
Recycling Cabinet
DIY Wine Rack
