Hello, friends! I came back. I don't see how people* can both work on a house and blog about working on a house. * Normal full-time-job people, that is, who don't get paid to blog. I just spent $99 to renew my WordPress.com Premium account, which includes the No Ads upgrade. That keeps WordPress from placing [...]
When we moved into our apartment I quickly taped up our names below the doorbell, thinking "I'll fix this in a few days." And then I didn't, for months. Two years, almost. It's the sort of thing you eventually stop seeing, but a Craigslist buyer was in our apartment recently and he said "Wow, I [...]
Is there anything better than the first post-winter car wash? Yes, of course, there is (my nightly post-dinner glass of wine, for example), but washing off Chicago's winter grime ranks right up there. For my birthday I bought myself a shop-vac. Vacuuming the car will never be the same. I can't believe I spent years [...]
Happy new year to you all and welcome to new readers! Now that my subscriber count has surpassed 1,500 (thanks, everyone!) and we've rolled into 2013, I wanted to pause to do a DIY project round-up. Not necessarily comprehensive, just a visual introduction to what goes on around here. 1: Operation Obscurement: Window Film 2: [...]
On April 4th I asked you, dear reader, to "check back soon for posts on building raised garden beds and installing a backyard shade canopy!" Well, I delivered on the garden beds... and never mentioned the canopy again. IKEA's DYNING canopy seemed like a great solution for our sun-scorched backyard. The width was perfect and installing the [...]
Project Palermo 