I went out after work and finished putting the black plastic down where I want to kill off grass for milkweed, and then raked up a metric fuckton (fucktonne?) of leaves, sticks, sweetgum balls and sunflower shells. Baby tulip tree has buds in spite of the abuse it suffered getting here, and so does the […]

I scratched one a little because the slot was too tight and I had to wrestle it in, but I finished the glass I had. Four down, only twenty-eight to go! I went outside to look, and they’re as much nicer than the curtain-things from the outside as they are from the inside. Possibly more. […]

The glass got cut wrong because I mis-measured, and P didn’t check his text messages before he bought it, and getting those little fleur-de-lis off without peeling away the frosted glass paint proved to be a bigger challenge than I’d thought, but not bad for a first try, and I can always take it off […]

I got the first coat on last night, and just finished the second this morning. I have laundry and ironing, of course,  but may be able to get the seat for this one done today, too. Won’t be able to put it on until the paint has had a week or so to cure (mebbe…hehe), […]

It’s almost sanded, and attempt #2 to get the colour of fabric I wanted for the seats was a success, even if they did only send me two yards when I’d ordered four. (I opened a case.) I did most of the sanding outside; I’ll finish up the hand-sanding in here, and hopefully get the […]

Fuck you, Slate! It was your stupid JavaScript; FF’s default behaviour is to freeze a page with JS it believes could be potentially malicious, and your crap code triggered it. Disabling JS made page after page load smoothly. So, fuck your shitty code, and your advertising (because I block it), and I’ll read what I […]

“…a lot like her friend, Loxoceles reclusa,” (points to image on wall) “the Brown Recluse…” Which this spider most emphatically is not.   (Law and Order: SVU) Oh my GOD! I watched a little farther into the show, and the person Olivia and Stabler are looking for is an arachnologist who “milks” spiders for research […]

Purchased 13 years ago at some random yard sale–I remember it was at the back of the garage and cost four or five dollars–and it made the living room at 544 look larger ever since. The frame was dark woodgrain plastic, but it was a pretty good fake and worked well in the room. Here, […]