Did you know I’m cheap? Like really, extremely cheap? It’s a long-term cheap, though: I’ll pay a ton of money for something up front and then use it until it dies.*So we had these curtains I bought when we first moved in, and…
ETA: The blog is being rebooted as an incentive for my Patreon Supporters. All posts go live after a week, but Supporters at the $10+ tiers get early access. Thank you! Brooke here. This week’s post was supposed to be about the pollinator garden, but it’s nasty and overcast and I can’t get good photos. […]
Brooke here. I took a trip out to Portland for a couple of weeks to visit family. The residential areas of Portland are filled with adorable Arts and Crafts-style bungalows painted up like rainbows, mainly, as my sister says, as the bright colors keep people from chewing through their wrists because it never stops raining. […]
Brooke here: Remember this post about the Vestigial Lawn and the bits of pottery shrapnel I kept digging up? We still have no clue what this stuff is. The all-knowing Internet has provided options but no answers, and comments and emails from blog readers have not given any clear resolution to what these odd bits […]
To Whom it May Concern at Angie’s List:* Stop calling me. Stop calling me. Stop calling me. Listen, I appreciate how you’ve let me access your site for the past year, even though I only paid for six months. That’s very classy and I will definitely renew my subscription when […]
Brooke here: Thanksgiving has come and gone, leaving a wake of chores. We hold it here and the week before is constant cleaning, followed by a week of family, followed by another two days of cleaning. Brown and I spent yesterday on the couch, too tired to move except to scrounge the occasional scrap of […]
Brooke here. Guys, this post is all for you. For obvious and not-so-obvious reasons, Brown and I watch a lot of DIY Network. Obvious, as we’ve bought a home that is the quintessential “Before” shot, and not-so-obvious, as we have widely different tastes in programming and this is the only compromise that allows us to […]
Brooke here: In between the renovations, I’ve been keeping a notebook of the various sundries that have popped up in conversation regarding the house. The inconsistencies are pretty glaring, especially when they show up in writing; I mentioned a while back how everyone swears up and down the Jarrells had this house custom-built, but that […]
Flying by night 