Enclosed back porches are pretty standard on Chicago apartments. They're handy for storage and it's nice that you don't have to go outside to get down to the basement laundry room, but they can also be shoddily constructed heat traps. Ours slopes down dramatically and is painted a gross fleshy color our landlords must have [...]
This constantly jumbled pile of measuring cups and spoons was making me crazy. So I bought a nice stainless steel set and hung them on small brass hooks on the inside of our cabinet door. Much better! I hope your Saturday night was no less exciting.
Sometimes the interwebs just do you wrong, ya know? Take, for example, the Burpee order I placed weeks ago. Shipping live plants didn't seem risky to me considering that baby chicks are shipped via USPS all the time. But these vegetables were doomed (the same fate many baby chicks face as well, I suppose). They [...]
An Open Letter to Matt & Jen Warship: Do you think your realtor could get us a first-time homeowner two-fer-one deal? If so, we'll take this California ranch: 4607 Southwest 16th Street. The real estate pictures are hilariously crummy (three of the shed and none of a bedroom or bathroom?) but I was sold on this [...]
Breaking garden news! The crime spree has ended thanks to this sweet net situation I rigged up. A friend suggested that my vegetable predator could very well be birds (instead of or in addition to rabbits), and seeing as how that stray cat had turned the bed into its litter box (I scooped out the [...]
Project Palermo 