more joys of home ownership

A month or so ago, one of us noticed that there seemed to be some sort of clear liquid pooling in the cabinet under the sink. We ran the faucet for a while and stared, and found no serious culprit. But just in case, I stuck an old plastic bucket that once contained goldfish [...]

awwww…

this is sweet!

DYE, BITCHES!

Today Sandy had some of us over to her house for fiber dyeing fun. This was ideal for me, because:

1. I need to dye some yarn as per my Mission Possible 2008 objectives

2. Dyeing at Sandy’s meant her house got messed up, not mine

So it was basically win/win for me. I [...]

mystery hits

Am getting a bunch of incoming hits from a yahoo group called The Crunchy Cooperative.  Hippies are reading my blog!  I can’t see the message the link is coming from, so I can only hope they are here for good and not evil.  WELCOME, CRUNCHY HIPPIES!

the good, the bad, and the sweaty

GOOD: I decided to walk instead of drive to Home Depot to buy wall anchors.

BAD: I made this decision last minute, after I walked out the door wearing my slip-on sandals, which are not ideal for the dirt slope shortcut by Mrs Winner’s Chicken.

GOOD: on the walk back, I decide to stop [...]

this space not in use

this post is nothing more than an attempt to get that ‘how many 5 year olds’ image OFF MY SIDEBAR!

secret herbs and spices

This is my new wall cabinet that will soon hold my immense herb and spice collection.  Except I got it for $20 on clearance!  booya!  Now I need to find an appropriate place to put it…

Twitter

Why doesn’t everyone twitter?  THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD TWITTER!  I command that it be done!

risen indeed

Saturday, Kev and I had our traditional “cheap date” afternoon – lunch at costco (total: $4) and then a movie at the cheapie theater (total: $2). We saw “meet the spartans.” I will save you 2 hours of your life by telling you that you don’t need to see it. Though if you just [...]

5 years

I supposed this could be a serious, meaningful look back at 5 years of a miserable failure of a war in Iraq.

But it’s not.

yesterday on the phone

Kev: are you going to knitting tonight?

ESC: yeah, and I have to go to church.

Kev: oh? you never said anything [...]

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