We've been spending some time each weekend for the past couple of months trying to make the garage usable and more efficient. Essentially trying to make it something other than a repository for junk and things that we don't know where else to put. We're almost done, and one of the last things we have to do is to take down the things that the ( Read more... )

No bedding, no blinds, no closet door yet, but we're getting there. We still need all the little touches and artwork and such, but I'm just thrilled we made it this far on the weekend. Just a few short weeks ago the room had vinyl flooring, old marred-up ugly almond walls, and a layer of dust so thick we needed to keep a rug outside the room to ( Read more... )

RE: BLOGGING I'm really surprised that so many people did not consider themselves bloggers  in my last post. I wonder if my having posted that blurb about the lecture I'm going to above the question skewed the results. Because occasionally people ask me if I have a blog or if I'm a blogger, and I always answer yes. Probably it just means that I'm ( Read more... )

Sitting here cozily under a blanket on the couch with the wind ripping through the trees outside the windows and with Scout sleeping peacefully on my lap reminds me that life is good. It really is ( Read more... )

I am positively giddy, GIDDY, I TELL YOU, over the fact that as of last night at around 6 pm we officially have a carpeted master bedroom complete with nightstands. Aaiiiiieeeeeeee ( Read more... )

I haven't been getting on as much as I would have liked, lately. Grump ( Read more... )

I arranged to take a day off work today because we've hired a guy from a landscaping servive to take care of some projects in our front yard. He's going to trim our HUGE Russian Olive tree (my So Cal LJ friends are all silently saying "It's about time!"), our enormous Juniper bush, and our wierd, wierd plants on the side of the house that grow ( Read more... )