Building Fun & A Duck A-Frame
As a person who spent a fair number of years living in far more tropical climates, and then willingly and happily decided to move back
As a person who spent a fair number of years living in far more tropical climates, and then willingly and happily decided to move back
I just got back from six days in Mexico… for five of those days I had a decent wifi connection and really good intentions of
I don’t think we really need photographic evidence to prove that over the last three years I’ve become a crazy bird lady. But just in
Most days when I sit down to write, there’s a narrative just sitting there waiting for me to put words around it. You know, progress
So, I know, I did all of the gratitude/nostalgic stuff earlier this week–and just in case I haven’t made myself clear, I am grateful for
Three years ago, on the day I officially closed on this house, I started a fun little tradition of having a glass (or two) of
A good friend of mine recently asked me to come speak to her class of college freshmen about, well, life. Specifically about how I chose
Well, okay, so last week wasn’t my week for making progress on the actual tiling portion of the upstairs bathroom. The first time I wrote
I'm not interested in a mediocre life. I'm here to kick ass or die.
Back in 2004 I started writing about my adventures in fixing up houses on the internet. A lot of things have changed since then, with me, with my houses, and with the internet. These days I am basically a cranky old man trapped in a slightly less old woman’s body. The internet has changed and I am staunchly refusing to change with it. You won’t find any algorithms here, or feeds, or ads, or social media. Just good old-fashioned stories about a woman drinking beer and building shit, and living an unexpected life.
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