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So How’s That Kitchen Planning Coming Along, Eh?

Posted on Feb 18, 2010

Kitchen planning? What kitchen planning?
I thought so!
Ugh. I haven’t even mapped out the room onto graph paper or made an electrical schematic yet. I’m working full-time right now, and also trying to keep up my blogging ventures. Wow.
I do see the entire room, all in my mind’s eye! I have one small problem [...]

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Remuddler Reminders

Posted on Feb 17, 2010

I love to look at remuddling projects. I like to see how insane ingenious and inventive people can be. Plus, it gives me great satisfaction that my rickety old 1855 house isn’t half as bad. Even though we have no electricity for half the house and leaky plumbing and pockmarks and holes in the plaster [...]

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Cabin Fever Big Time

Posted on Feb 16, 2010

*****sighhhhh****
Pardon me as I recollect…

Can’t you just smell them?

I wonder how my new bed in my Secret Garden will turn out this year. I’m so desperate I don’t even care about how ugly that sump pump pipe looks.

Ah, to see green again….

It’s been so gloomy this winter. I haven’t had cabin fever like this in [...]

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A Fun Run for the Princess

Posted on Feb 15, 2010

Have you noticed that the last THREE posts have been about my cat?! I may as well just give the blog over to her… :-p
Winter in February is really, really boring. And Livvy always manages to keep thing so, uh, interesting around here. Actually, she’s been a snot lately, driving us all up the walls. [...]

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Find the Kitty 2/12

Posted on Feb 12, 2010

She’s getting SO savvy with her picture-taking. If she is in a hiding place, and I open the drawer to get the camera, she immediately comes out of her hiding place. Little stinker!
But this time, I GOT her! haha!

February is almost half over, yay! I am almost desperate to get back outside, to see green [...]

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