I’m having some plumbing drama. It started because I want a washer and dryer. Doesn’t that seem like a simple request? I just got a tax refund and so am motivated to act on the washer/dryer situation (having gone, oh, eight months without). The first step is to send new plumbing to the place where [...]
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March 8, 2011Edges
March 2, 2011Sunday was all about yard work. In fact, I even recruited my mom to come pull all of the weeds in my front yard. Thanks, mom! In the backyard, I cleaned up the edges of things. It made such a difference. Here is my lawn before. It is about 6 feet by 8 feet, and [...]
The Greenhouse
July 11, 2010My Special Bay Area Gardening Book says I can plant pumpkins in August. Before I left for the East Coast, I planted pumpkin seeds in some extremely high tech containers. I punched holes in the bottom of a cottage cheese container, filled it with dirt, and set it in a Tupperware container filled with water. [...]
Basic Plumbing, Illustrated
July 10, 2010I found Sunset’s Guide to Basic Plumbing for 50 cents when I was at the thrift store looking for sheets to cover my windows while my blinds were cleaned. It seemed like something that would come in handy. There are issues with my kitchen sink. First, it doesn’t drain very well. It drains eventually but [...]
Shelves!
July 9, 2010I had a big house victory today. I made myself a linen closet! Yay, me! Now the sheets and towels are on actual shelves instead of in storage boxes in the middle of the living room. Here’s the story. Originally, there was this built-in cabinet/drawer thing next to the bathroom. It wasn’t that bad, but [...]
Persimmon Massacre
July 5, 2010I have a persimmon tree right pretty much in the middle of the backyard. It is lovely, but the branches are so low that you can’t walk anywhere near it. Did I say ARE so low? I meant WERE so low because this afternoon I bought a saw (pictured here with my blackberry harvest)… …and [...]
Check Out These Guns…
July 5, 2010Uncle Bob left me with a caulking gun and the instructions to run caulk along the top of the new baseboards before painting. This is a caulking gun. Did you know that? I didn’t. I wasn’t 100% sure how to use it, so I put it off for a while. When my fridge was delivered, [...]
La Cocina
June 28, 2010The kitchen is finally, mostly, almost finished. Getting the cabinet doors back on proved to be nearly impossible. They are now on, they just don’t exactly close. Whatevs. At least they’re off the floor. Here’s what we started with: Pretty, right? Things got worse before they got better. The big adventure in here was removing, [...]
Home-Sewn
June 27, 2010Several seasons ago on Project Runway, Nina Garcia told a contestant, with utter disgust, that her garment looked: “a little home-sewn.” I laughed out loud when I heard that. On the show, the phrase has become one of the worst insults they can throw out. Home-Sewn in this way has nothing to do with “hand-made” [...]
Barbie’s Dream Door
June 26, 2010The other day, I painted the front door. Thursday, maybe? Yes. Thursday. It was for sure Thursday, because I had to get the locks back on the front door before I left for my riding lesson, and because I had to do about eighteen coats of paint, I was on a strict timer system for [...]
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