Crowded couch

It’s a rainy afternoon and I don’t have any work today, so I’m just spending the afternoon all comfy on the couch studying some neglected text, UNTIL someone comes to the door and I have to get up. I tend to whatever and come back to re-settle in and this is what I’m facing:

Craft-less

Yes, this is a birdhouse veneered with wine corks. I was going to make some excuses to explain some of the rough edges — I had a dull…

April perfection

Construction drama

So, our little studio/patio/den renovation project is plodding along at a less than rapid pace. However, yesterday, a whole crew of people showed up most of the day and did stuff; construction stuff. Not talk on the phone, eat lunch in my yard and throw wrappers everywhere, stand around and…

Sugarplums and then some!

Every December, Southern Living typically puts a gorgeous cake on their cover and includes the recipe. It is always something that a normal person with limited small motor skills and even less patience could NEVER reproduce. There are exceptions however; in 2008 I think it was, my…

NC Snow

Central North Carolina got a really pretty snow yesterday. It is a VERY rare event — it is only the second time we’ve seen snow around Charlotte in the two-plus years we have lived here. It wasn’t much in terms of midwestern type snows, but there were some really huge snowflakes. It was a very wet snow so it…

ICE!

Well, we didn’t get the world-ending storm that the weatherman hyped all week, but when you’re talking ice, that is OK by me.

The sun is trying to come out now and what ice we got will melt quickly.

Hot Tub Time Machine

As part of our patio project, (the construction of which is entering its seventh month — what the hell?) we decided to install a spa. I never envisioned myself a spa person — pools and spas seem so California somehow and we are just too Midwestern practical for that kind of thing. But…

JUICE

I’m having juice for lunch most days — I’m really giving the juicer a workout. Today’s mix was a pint of blueberries, a Fuji apple, a Granny Smith apple, and a lemon wedge. I peel oranges when I juice them because the peel and pith is SO bitter — it will totally wreck the taste of a glass of juice. However, it’s OK…