It's possible this will be that rarest of beasts, an LJ post from me that lacks photos. I don't swear to that, of course. I really have no idea what this post is going to be, other than an update on the status of the quilt. Which has just led to using Myrna's built-in camera to snap a photo. See?


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It's a fairly stormy sort of day and I'm wearing a bit of fleece and a wool scarf but it was also the sort of day that, after work, I just had to wander around the backyard. Yesterday's post-work wander resulted in an overflowing yard waste container; tonight it's photos:


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As movies_Michelle might say, "of the good":


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This post would feature a photo of the new ping pong table in situ if elijah_brown weren't on an endless conference call. Conference call! At this time of night! When there are ping pong tables to shift.... We'll be having a serious talk about priorities before this day is done. The ping pong table was successfully collected from the generous freecycler this ( Read more... )

On Wednesday I declared I'd be taking Friday off in a perhaps belated attempt to save my sanity. Today, when I forwarded a few bits of work business to Boss Bully, she replied with "go play in the sun" so I closed Myrna and went outside. Photographs inevitably resulted and that, as the Imaginary Reader knows, means a post of photos.


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Mischief hasn't been so much managed as taken out of my control. After deciding that the Monarch would fit in the kitchen after all, we went to look at it. Unfortunately, while it is undoubtedly a handsome appliance, we realized it might not work for making jam and there was no real guarantee that the oven would actually hold a steady temperature: ( Read more... )

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Since it seems the thing to have done, I'm composing a hasty thankful post as of the day after Thanksgiving. Some of us don't like to go jinxing stuff, okay?

I'm feeling oh-so-American as I'm inclined to be thankful for materialistic things today, namely, the new faucet and light fixture in the bathroom, both of which were found at The ReStore ( Read more... )

So today I looked at a house for sale in West Seattle. It wasn't, by any stretch, dreadful, but it was also not so gobsmackingly gorgeous as it had looked in the photos online. As the MOT observed, it's possibly the worst situation: something that I neither hated nor loved. I can't put it entirely from my mind, nor can I act with the certainty that ( Read more... )

Because I've only just remembered that I have those photos but have done nothing with them. Instead it's a one-photo post that nicely encapsulates today's successful cookies and cocktails event:


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