Good; I can finally stop worrying about that tree
Lorena
Ever since we moved in, there’s been a large turkey oak tree looming over one corner of my studio. You can kind of see it in the background of this…
Home and Garden
That awkward in-between stage
Our Gainesville house is at that awkward, in-between stage where we’ve moved out, but there’s still some crap sitting around for Tim to take to the dump, and small renovations…
The back deck: a pictorial timeline
I know where Tim is coming from when he feels like all he sees are the imperfections; I make things for a living. I get that. But he should be…
Has it been a month, already?
Time flies when you’re fixing one thing after another – or when you’re interrupted when fixing one thing in order to hurriedly fix another… As I’m writing this, Tim is…
The cat shelves (in progress)
Did I mention the cat shelves Tim is building?
More vignettes
This post brought to you by my phone, acting as a mobile hotspot! I went to a Verizon office and see what they could do for me, and was able…
So far, it’s like living in a hotel, with vaguely familiar furniture and nothing 100% completed.
Next time I move*, I don’t think I’m going to buy a bunch of new furniture for the new house at the same time. I do love the new bed,…
Vignettes
The UPS lady almost gave me a hug when she got out of her truck the other day. “I *love* your new driveway!” — she settled for a high five,…
Love is looking in the same direction
It’s a good thing that Tim likes puzzles, because the sheer amount of things that need to be done, all seemingly at the same time, is starting (starting? HAH!) to…
We have 3.5 bathrooms out there, you’d think ONE of them would be fully functional
I’m pretty sure by this point that if you put all three and a half bathrooms together, you’d get one single working one. This is the master bath. Both sinks…
Them’s the pits
Have we told you about the clay pit? About why this property was up for sale in the first place? As near as we can tell – and a LOT…
Gilda Radner was right; it’s always something.
If you read this post, about a month ago, you know that the water was an issue/non-issue (in that it wasn’t on the first time we had the place inspected,…