Tagged: 60

making do

No meeting room, so had to change the meeting to a conference call. Everyone got on the call but the key person, Leigh, whose brain we wanted to pick. We waited 15 minutes, then...

pros and cons

shopping at Anthropologie at lunchtime drawn like a magnet to celebrate excuses a free hour between meetings and March First really wanted to buy some cloth napkins with lots of color and pattern $3.95...

staircase, two views

There’s thirteen of them, and all risers painted, treads refinished, and trimmed out. Stringers painted too. No railing yet, it’s at the controversial sandblaster’s. I find the double angles of these photos interesting to...

ceremonial

Milestones today: a guest stayed in the guest room, pronounced it good, and all the furniture upstairs is back where it belongs (for now). Bees flew home with orange pollen on their legs –...

hall crawl

I have never spent so much time in a hallway. An exercise in patience – all that trim to be painted, then cut, then nailed. Nail holes to be filled, then sanded, then paint...

holding patterns

Failed magic? or successful? either way, I’m feeling silly resisting the nostalgia. Once upon a time I filled a tabletop chest of drawers with love charms, made a gift of it. It held energetic...

a distant city

On my way to work I take a side road to avoid a troublesome intersection over a slight rise I can see a distant city – today so well highlighted with a yellow backdrop...