Keyberts v. The Kitchen: Triumph

In honor of Margaret and Amy, who asked very nicely for these pictures, I give you the final paint job pictures: A few shots before the painter’s tape was removed… (With a “before” picture, in case you can’t remember the horror of that wallpaper…) Looking into the kitchen from the living room… I love how [...]

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Keyberts vs. The Wallpaper, Round 2

My memories of Day Two of The Great Wallpaper Caper are a bit vague and misty, probably due to the sheer excruciating pain of the tiny bathroom. I hate that thing now. Moving on! We got the dining area completely paper-free, as well as the over-the-sink area, and realized that the pantry was apparently installed [...]

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Keyberts vs. The Wallpaper, Round 1

I haven’t forgotten or fallen off the internet again, just couldn’t upload pictures at home (grr!) and had to wait till I got to the public library where the internet connection is fat and happy. Anyway. A few last looks… The kitchen, looking in front of the patio doors The tiny bathroom. Notice the floor-to-ceiling [...]

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Team Keyberts v. Wallpaper, pre-game

I’m trying to upload pictures of the kitchen to show you what we’ve done to it so far, but today is not my day for internet goodness. Hi! Remember me?! I’m completely obnoxious!! This is an old picture of the kitchen. We are going to get rid of this godawful wallpaper this weekend and I [...]

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Easy like Sunday morning

I’m sitting at my newly cleared off kitchen table with the patio door open, a nice breeze coming through, and Miyagi stealthily stalking the birds outside (through the screen door). The locust tree to the south of my patio, very shady Everything is still, for the most part, even at 10:30am. In an hour I’m [...]

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Chairapy

How to turn an old sort-of swivel/rocking chair into a (more-or-less) stable chair with four feet. Because I know you’re just dying to know. Ingredients The chair, purchased for $5.00 at a co-worker’s garage sale 8 years ago Power drill 4 Wooden bun feet, pre-drilled with double-ended screws 4 Brackets with accompanying screws of their [...]

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Blog called on account of OMG FLOOD!

Saturday morning we found our sump pump stopped working (some time between Wednesday night and Saturday morning) and the basement had flooded. We have been very busy. Result: I have not even cataloged my pictures from last week, or the pictures of my knitting, or the pictures of my new yarn, or my thoughts on [...]

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Here, have a squirrel

I’m really trying to slow down a bit and sort through a bunch of stuff (good and blergy), and my brain feels about the size of a walnut. In that spirit, I give you squirrels: We hung a compressed-seed bird feeder (does that make sense? it’s a bunch of seeds kind of sculpted into a [...]

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The Cat Has A Name

We decided against permanently saddling her with Miss Kitty Face. Which she appreciates. And while Cat Benatar was clever and hilarious, we didn’t go with that either. No, it was none of those. Nor was it any of the suggestions offered by you, dear readers, much as we loved them. Fishy The Cat was good, [...]

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Line items make me hot

Okay. Today has been better than yesterday, in that I wore proper shoes and didn’t scrape my side-view mirror off the car when I left for work. Also the sun was shining, and that helps. Today I learned that NinjaHusband and I can take advantage of the craptacular economy and refinance our house, just 4 [...]

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