"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Home Improvements, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Jan 2nd, 2012
What you see before you is my “new” stove, a 1950s-era Magic Chef gas range and oven which pretty much outclasses everything else currently residing in my kitchen. Never mind you that the new stove is currently residing on the back porch. It’s in good company. It’s got a disconnected Swedish woodstove and a mysteriously [...]
Posted in Home Improvements, Photo entries on Dec 9th, 2009
Joel redid our closet in the bedroom: Before (CROWDED) Also, I have the sartorial aesthetic of a 1970s sofa. after (much less cram-packed, easier to see what I have to wear) Joel’s side (and the shelves for sweaters & shoes in the middle) Another view of Joel’s side of the closet. This isn’t the first [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Home Improvements, Party, Sewing on Apr 6th, 2009
This past weekend was quite the social whirlwind. To start with on Friday night, the Frank Stallone boys had all sorts of shindigs going on. They did another roller race at the Cellar Rat, then rolled over to ACME to run a charity alleycat to raise money for Diabetes research! We didn’t get in on [...]
Posted in bike commuting, Home Improvements, Playing With Weather on Jan 15th, 2009
I went back over to my old house today to do some more cleaning and work. It was darnstupidfreezingasscold out there. Like a high today of 10F or similar. Whatever it was, it was ridiculously cold out. Like tears freezing on my eyelashes cold. Nonetheless, by the time I hit 12th & Paseo (a little [...]
Posted in Home Improvements, Playing With Weather on Jan 14th, 2009
Holey cow, man, was it ever a windy beast out there today! I grew up in northwestern Nebraska, where they consider 25mph winds a “breeze” so you would think I could handle a little wind. Well, to be honest, since I have been living in Kansas City for so long, I guess I have gotten [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Home Improvements, Photo entries on Dec 20th, 2008
I’ve had a general purpose disaster area for a workroom pretty much since I moved out of the apartment on Warwick. So basically for the past 6 years, give or take a few months, my workspace has been an explodey mess. In my old house, my workroom also doubled as “That Place Where I Put [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Home Improvements on Mar 8th, 2008
This morning, I made the biggest fucking mess I’ve ever made in my entire goddamn life. Seriously, in nearly 31 extremely klutzy years, I have never made as big, sloppy, frustrating, or just plain awful mess as the mess I made today. I fell off of a ladder and brought the remainder of a can [...]
Posted in Cats, Home Improvements, Mountain Biking, Sewing on Jan 22nd, 2008
I had a 3-day weekend this past weekend due to Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day. A 3-day weekend is always welcome – in fact, I wish they all were, considering as how I generally spend all of Saturday on the run, then Sunday doing basically jack. That Monday in a typical 3-day weekend is [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Home Improvements, Utter Silliness, videos on Nov 19th, 2007
I know I have touched upon how fond I am of performing feats of interior demolition (very). In “real life” I was regaling my friend Jared with a frenzied monologue on the team of tearin’ some shit up, and he got all wide-eyed and bouncy as he does when he has some really awesome info [...]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Garden, Home Improvements on Oct 24th, 2007
Last night I went up to Joel’s house to help harvest basil, make pesto, and tear down the ceiling in the living room. He helped me with the outrageous job of removing wallpaper from my living-room ceiling, so I really felt like I owed him. I got up there around 5:30, did a little pottering [...]
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