Do a Happy Dance
I got this video through an email list that I’m on, and it’s so great that I just had to share it. Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Recent Posts
Things that go “bump” in the night.
Just a quick post today so I don’t fall out of practice. I just had to share a photo of the beetle that my husband found wandering in our crawlspace the other night (I don’t even want to think about how it got in there). …
Playing Catch-Up
First off, thank you for all of your kind words of support and encouragement! I loved hearing about others who have lived or are currently living a similar kind of live/work arrangement. So, as promised, here are a few photos to show you what we’ve …
Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated…
I thought that, on the off chance anyone’s even bothering to check in here anymore, I’d better get with it and post some kind of update so you don’t all think I’ve fallen off the face of the earth! The big news is, we’re officially …
Garden Firsts
The smallest hint of a garden has begun popping up around the house, as the bulbs I planted a month or so ago have recently started to bloom.These varieties will naturalize and spread, and should eventually blanket the hillside with blooms. It’s not much, but …
Let there be light!
We did it!! We managed to wire two complete circuits and get them both working! That’s a happy man you see before you – I hate to think what his expression would have been like if nothing had happened when he flicked that switch! We’ve …
Days 1 and 2
We got started on the house wrap on Saturday, but we quickly became too short for the job… …the rest is on hold until we get either taller ladders or scaffolding. I wired my very first electrical outlet today! Only 200 or so left to …
And so it begins…
First off, thanks for your nice comments about my little dresser project. I’m sorry that I haven’t been responding to each of you individually as much as I’d like, and I promise to be better about it when things settle down a bit! Speaking of …
Restoration
I’ve been living for the past year and a half with a dresser that only has two functioning drawers. The gliders for the other four have lost all of the little ball bearings that are supposed to make them slide smoothly in and out, and …