The Door
It just arrived. They’re getting ready to hang it. More pics later.
Le King has left Le Building
Monday was Presidents Day, a day when we celebrate the February birthdays of a couple of former Leaders of the Free World by shopping and staying home from school or work. Presidential Quiz: Who was our 16th president? He is called The Great Emancipator. He came from Springfield, Illinois. He was born in a log cabin, where he wore a stovepipe hat and didn’t tell a lie. Or something like […]
Happy Monday Gras
The install is begun! And oh my goodness, it is beautiful. Granted, the tools aren’t so pretty, but they’re not a permanent fixture. The Big M holds up a door for one of the new cabinets: This is going to be our file cabinet, with a Greene & Greene twist. And just to give you a taste of what is to come: Ignore the right side trim. It’s not on […]
Happy Vallitimes Day!
That’s what my five-year-old baby angel wrote on her card for Mama. The kids had their Valentine’s Day parties on Thursday at school. My very talented sister put together beautiful Valentine treats for them to hand out to their friends. For the last couple of years she’s made very lovely, time-consuming, and probably expensive treats for the kids at no cost or effort to me, which has been pretty terrific. […]
We have a couch
It arrived at noon. It’s red. I’m breaking out of my beige phase. It’s exactly 69 inches wide, and the opening for it to fit in is exactly 69.35 inches wide. That’s the drawn opening. I’m a little nervous. My builder has to be very precise for this unreturnable, custom couch to fit. It’s a sleeper sofa. The bed is a queen-size platform bed with a surprisingly comfortable mattress. Platform […]
Progress!
On Friday I went to visit the master craftsmen and the pieces of my library that they are working on. I took a few terrible pictures with my phone because I forgot to bring a real camera. Here’s the sliding “barn” door for the doorway: Don’t worry. It won’t have all of those gaps. They were just dry-fitting it. Isn’t it cool?!! Now here are some of the boxes for […]
Dido’s Lament
I may previously have mentioned that I’m not particularly cultured. For instance, I share in my late grandmother’s opinion of opera. Grandma would hear an aria on the radio and demand, “Whose cat’s dying?” She got a universal laugh with this line until the day when she said it and the feline death wail in question turned out to be sung by her granddaughter Kim, who had presented Grandma with […]
First Steps
My library construction is beginning. Some time last spring I did a computer rendering of the general look and layout for the room. Below is how it would look as you walk in. Complete wall of shelves on the left, couch on the wall opposite, bridged by shelves, small desk to the right, coffered ceiling, hardwood floor. Maybe some throw pillows for the kids and a rug. View when sitting […]
The Library
The title of this post does not refer to an ironically named college bar, but rather to my nerdy dream: to have my own library. It’s not my fault. I grew up with this: And this: Why, hello, ancient Western culture! But wait — there’s more! And this: That empty spot is where the records (LPs) should be. I surreptitiously lifted them all to cut them to .mp3 for Dad’s […]
The Sabine Women
I finished Plutarch’s life of Romulus, which reads a lot like one of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Just as Kipling mythologizes animal history such as how the leopard got its spots or how the camel got its hump, Plutarch explains the beginnings of Roman history, including such tidbits as why fast people are said to have celerity, why lawyer-client privilege exists, and even why the bridegroom carries his new […]
Flabby Brain 