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Alison Blogs HereSemi-Dangerous When Thinking
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Saturday we went to a party. The hostess had gone all out – rented inflatable amusements for the kids, hired a couple of bands, rented a raw bar and a bar for drinks, and hired people to take care of food and cleanup. Her husband now has two years to save up for a similar [...]
The house is done. It looks great. I’m kind of at loose ends, what with not expecting a bunch of guys to start sawing and hammering and stuff at 8AM. Worse still, it means I now must track down a reliable mason and a good flooring place, plus empty out the garage and figure out [...]
I’ve been up for only a little more than an hour, but my Adderall hasn’t kicked in, so my brain has been busybusybusy. I can’t really get started until I can separate out, mentally, which things have to get done, and which things would be exercises in futility. Heh. I must go grocery shopping and [...]
Look on the left, and you’ll see “Alison’s Plant Guide”. I went around the yard and took pictures of some of the plants, and wrote a little information on each one. Yes, it was fun.
We’re waiting for a window to arrive, and once they have it, our contractors will finish the house. Then it’ll be our turn – drywall around the new doors and windows, paint, hang shelves, re-organize. . .it’s still going to be a while before we have our art studio. But we will have it. So [...]
So I’m doing the pond maintenance thing, backflushing and cleaning the filter media, and discovered our frog hiding in the bottom of the filter/spillway: At first, when we found it, I was concerned that it would eat the fish. Not today, though, because I discovered more shubunkin fry in the pond. I have no idea [...]
Hubby was working from home, so I left him to supervise the contractor dudes (they don’t need it, but sometimes they ask questions before they do something. And you need to make sure there are cold beverages in the cooler for them. . .) I had done a bunch of research on Ong’s Hat, thinking [...]
Umm. . .umm. . . I’ve been in a more receptive than productive mode, actually. I cruise around the web, see all kinds of things I would comment upon. . .if everyone else on earth hadn’t done it all ready. There’s not much point in simply adding another voice to the cacaphony, so I just [...]
We’re starting to ease into summer bit by bit around here. Audrey has had her graduation, graduation dance, graduation party, graduation sleepover. . .so that’s done. We still have some construction happening. The garage is on its way to becoming an art studio, the new siding should be on the house by the end of [...]
So, we’ve been organizing, rearranging, culling out useless stuff bit by bit. Audrey got a loft bed, so we disassembled the old one and rearranged her room. We decided the IKEA Pax units weren’t working for fabric storage (or much of anything else) in the family room, so we reassembled my garment racks, and I [...]
