small town me
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
Personalization
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Long Long Trailer
It appeared at a local fundraiser!
So cool!
I entered a raffle to win a 2-night stay.
I doubt I’ll win, but a person can dream.
Coincidentally, I had read the book a few months ago. It’s hard to find but you can read a free scan on InternetArchive. Archive.org but they are temporarily offline
Monday, October 07, 2024
Handy Work
Look at this labeling! WTF is Beth’s room? Who is Beth? Does she haunt the rodents in the attic?
Breaker 6B is labeled as Wet Bar (now a pantry) / Hall Bath. I never would have guessed.
So Handy put in a new fan.
And he upped the house by finding an unsecured vent in the attic, which was perhaps a rodent entrance. Screened off now.
It’s the house’s turn next.
Monday, September 02, 2024
Cat Quiche
When Harry's not in trouble, he is sweet and entertaining.
He was in trouble last month for eating something disagreeable, which caused massive non-hairball vomiting and bloody diarrhea. He's an inside cat, what could he possibly get into? Well his brother Leo ate some thread in January and had a very expensive emergency surgery. Harry's ER escapade only cost a third of Leo's. They x-rays were "frankly, boring," said the vet. So they gave him antibiotics and fluids and probiotics to have at home. Pretty soon he was back to his happy go-lucky self.
Here he is, pretending to be a quiche.
Which has overflowed during cooking.
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Signs of Fall 2023 Part 2
Bugles are hard to find these days. I remembered making witch fingernails but it was disappointing as most were flattened in baking
My light-up bar is a good spot for holiday displays
First fire in years. The kittens had been too active and then hearth got covered with music stuff.
Friday, September 29, 2023
The Orange Pan
I recently went through a box of my MIL's pictures which had sat in my garage for 10 years. Oops. Anyway, I found this gem of a Thanksgiving picture. It's taken between 1988 and 1990, as in 1991 we remodeled the funky kitchen.
Handy is carving the turkey and placing it into his beloved Orange Pan. My flea-market-scrounging uncle gave the pan to us soon after we were married. It has always been Handy's pan.
We can't ever have a barbecue without using The Orange Pan. When we gave Frank a propane grill as a housewarming present, we knew we had to give him an orange pan too. I found one on eBay! (I actually found 2 - Ernest will be getting one for Christmas.)
So the saga of The Orange Pan will continue.
Monday, September 25, 2023
Signs of Fall 2023
I ran into The Batmobile today! There was a school field trip walking around and many students wore Batman capes. I did not go Edna Mode on them. They were short capes, traveling capes, I used to tell my mini superhero children.
We split a cord of wood with Frank, who has moved 2 blocks away into his grandmother’s house. He’s looking forward to fires this winter. We hadn’t had any fires for a few years due to misbehaving kittens. They still parkour across the woodstove, but the big fireplace seems to be off their route
I have very few flowers these days. This is a volunteer, loved by hummingbirds.
Dessert season. Our 40th anniversary and Frank’s birthday