Tagged With: The House
A Very Harry Potter Christmas (Accio Holidays!)
This year we hosted my parents for Christmas dinner. My mom is a Harry Potter nut, I’m quite fond of the books, and my dad has read them all and knows them pretty well, so I decided to have a Harry Potter-themed Christmas this year. (Gene had never read any of them but I was … Continue reading
Trash
Someone from the giant apartment building next door threw a fully functional carbon monoxide detector into our yard. They even thoughtfully included a full set of working batteries. On the one hand I am displeased that people feel our yard is a good place to fling their unwanted goods. On the other hand, free stuff. … Continue reading
Adventures in herbalism
In our yard, we have a lavender mound: It’s in full bloom, as you can see. The bees go nuts for it. If you were an ant living on this mound you would go deaf from all the bee noise. (Actually, can ants hear? Well, the bees … Continue reading
Table Legs
I bought another piece of body-part decor. It’s a table that sits on sort of tentacly legs which end in four little paws. This time there was a decided silence before Gene said “Oh, I like it.” I probably need to stop shopping at stores with no return policies.
Skillz
While we were on the houseboat this year, Gene taught me to embroider: This is the only new skill I learned in 2012, which sounds sad now that I come to write it out, but I actually feel pretty … Continue reading
The Scraping
Whenever the wind really gets to blowin’ — which isn’t, like, totally unheard-of on this exposed little island — something in our newly landscaped yard makes a loud banging and scraping noise as if the fence were once again falling over. I dash to the window every time and frantically look the place over, but … Continue reading
Yard photos
I am still startled by how much I love our newly landscaped backyard. I spend so much time out there: if it’s not absolutely freezing, I’m out there pretty much whenever the sun is shining, even if I’m wrapped up in four layers. Here’s the yard about a year before the remodel. This isn’t an … Continue reading
Spice it up
This has been a week of showing people around the house for the first time. It’s not until you give a tour that you start to look at your everyday items with a critical eye. You begin to wonder what people think about — to take an example completely at random — the container of … Continue reading
Fridge-be-gone
Bit by bit this house is starting to feel like home. Yesterday I was sitting in the living room and suddenly said “You know, if we have a daughter someday and she gets picked up by her prom date, we’ll be taking their pictures in front of this fireplace.” (While mentally I was adding: assuming … Continue reading
Yuck
Fans of the previous post will remember that our landscapers started work today. I had to move my tomato plants out of their way, and there was a giant horrifying nest of worms under one of them. Worms! As if that weren’t enough, I’ve been trying and trying but so far I can’t think of … Continue reading