project shelf, part FINISHED

If anything looks crooked, I’m pretty sure something’s wrong with your screen. Total cost of project was somewhere in the $150- $170 range. About $70 for the wood, $60 for the casters, and… Read More →

project shelf, part 4: the final frontier

Oh, man. So. Heavy. I find it hilarious that, what with all the trips we’ve made carting the boards from one place to another, it never occurred to me that attaching all the… Read More →

kumquats!

It turns out they’re GORGEOUS to preserve. My favorite canning adventures are the still ones that can be instantly turned into cocktails. This one (from a landmark treatise on canning and drinking alike)… Read More →

project shelf, part 3: the still pretty easy part

In which a De Walt table saw is exacting despite great age, … I find employment as dead weight, …and where, in attempting to simultaneously carpenter and document the proceedings, I take an… Read More →

project shelf, part 2: the easy part

…in which shelving materials are enthusiastically assembled. Just to be clear, ‘assembled’ should be taken to mean ‘acquired’, but not yet to mean ‘attached together in a sustainable, structurally sound and shelf-like manner.’

Accounting for taste

I repainted the living room last week, the first time in my life that I’ve painted anything so sensible a color as off-white. The process (and the approach this month of my very… Read More →

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I’ve never been much of a refrigerator magnet person. My refrigerator is a hard-won slice of 1950s yummy goodness, leaving me disinclined to spackle over it with appointment reminder postcards, lap swim hours… Read More →

300 square feet: a proposal

Our house was built in 1950. Helen and her husband Bill commissioned its construction and lived in this very spot for more than 30 years. Having no children, they left the house on… Read More →