We have an indoor/outdoor basement in our new home. Built in the mid-to-late 1800s, the cellar sports a gravel and dirt floor, parts of which are in various states of damp depending on how quickly the snow is melting. The cats are… ecstatic. As indoor cats, their new proximity to ‘outdoors’ has them doing their…
WARNING: there is too much information in this post. For the past week, I’ve been searching for the box into which I deposited the contents of my bedside table. I have a stack of books + my e-reader in that box. That e-reader has become my Holy Grail. I’ve got the latest Kim Harrison book…
A buck, a doe and a fawn stand in the headlights of an oncoming Mack truck. Our family took possession of the new house on March 4th. By the next day, we had broken it. 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, after spending 12 hours demolishing things, I stood at the entrance to the common bathroom and started…
If you have to paint 20 kitchen cupboard doors with space to dry only 8 flat at a time, and each door needs to be primed with super-adherent primer that must have 2-4 hours drying time before covering the cupboards (back and front) with at least two coats of furniture paint, and if the furniture…
My ass felt colder than usual when I got out of the car. When I made it inside and took off my coat – I reached around to feel the seat of my pants. The seat of my pants was gone. My entire right cheek was exposed. My shoulders slumped. My pants were giving up…
Yesterday, we began renovations on our new home. Today, my neck, back and achilles tendons no longer work. Eight years ago, when we started the same process on our present home, I don’t remember feeling like this. I remember holding the mini-jack hammer and cackling with joy as I exposed the brick in our kitchen….
I parked the car. It was the first in the lot. When I opened the door, three inches of freshly fallen powdery snow were at my feet. The snow around my parking spot and all the way to the loading dock door was pristine. It was too good to pass up. I put on my…
Does anyone else do this kind of stuff with their daughter?
“SON OF A…” “MOTHER-$@*%&$!” We had a dumpster delivered Monday morning. We’re down to the crunch before the move. What hasn’t been sold or donated by the moving date ends up in the steel depths of the most dangerous dumpster in Southern Ontario. Before the dumpster was deposited on our driveway, we had snow. And…
For weeks now, in preparation for our impending move, we’ve been packing up our ginormous home. Over the weekend I was tackling the office space and I ran out of packing tape. “NO TAPE!!! WE HAVE NO TAPE!!!” “There might be some duct tape downstairs,” says David. Duct tape! Perfect! Duct tape sticks to everything…