home improvement

I've been playing in mud puddles. And giving rocks a new home. I also loooove the sound of water running, so I added a little of that as well. So. Whaddya think?

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Gore help me. I'm gonna need waaaaay more carbon offsets. The Associated Press: Ecologists Study Efficiency of Divorce WASHINGTON AP — Divorce can be bad for the environment. In countries around the world divorce rates have been rising, and each time...

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I happened to note that I never *did* put up a "post-fire floor pic" of how nice the floors turned out--after another day or two of cleaning up the scratches and marks from fire hoses and boots. Oh well. The purple rugs are down now, the furniture is...

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Now that the excitement over trying to BURN DOWN MY HOUSE is over.....it's back to this floor. Vacation is running out, and I *really* need to finish this before I start night shift. Not much gets accomplished when I'm working nights and trying to sleep...

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"....My house Out of the ordinary Thats right Don't want to hurt nobody Some things sure can sweep me off my feet Burning down the house..." Yeah, yeah, I know... What's really bad is that I was *singing* it while scrubbing soot this afternoon. Me. Singing....

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My house caught fire this morning. What a fun vacation this is turning out to be. Sitting on the hood of a pickup truck down the street, watching firetrucks and firemen in SCBA, dragging hoses into my house, all I could think was "I am so blogging this"!!...

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It's always fun when one gets to operate big noisy dusty machines. Oh wait.... I do that for a living don't I? I knew the old maple floors were in rough shape and I've been threatening to sand them for years, but this photo really shows up just how badly...

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In which our heroine discovers that, although she has always thought being six feet tall was an incredibly lucky wonderful thing and that her view of the world would always be a good one from this altitude, she can no longer get into her bed without a...

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Since none of you are opining on the Flickr pics, I'll ask it here instead. So the furniture-blogging is all YOUR fault. I loooove going furniture shopping. It's right up there with hitting my head against a wall repeatedly until I black out. So. I bought...

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