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Done, Done, Done!
South wall done. Margot kindly came down and held my hand while we went through albums and old sketchbooks. We made the decision to keep all mother’s albums…even if they were falling apart. M...
Laboring in the Garage
2008: The garage at its worst. Day Before Labor Day: We, note I said we, labored in that remaining far corner of the garage much of the morning. All the boxes of sketchbooks, photo albums, a...
Tid-bits and Orts
• It’s Festival of Sail time again. Nowhere can I discover which ships we have in port this year. G wants to go see, and I think it will be fun too. He wants to bring my walker, but I think...
Renaissance
…a Continuing History of Western Architecture Brunelleschi’s Florence Cathedral Dome. After all those architectural history classes I took, could I remember what made Renaissance architectural...
Inching into the Garage
Garage shelving #2: From tables and a monitor on top, the extra flatware and chair cushions in two colors, water color rags and paint, Next to bottom: Comic Con costume, and two boxes of sketch...
In Reaction To....
Or…A quickie course in architectural history page 1: Or a failed attempt to write a summary of Western Architectural History in three paragraphs: The Acropolis in Athens, history.com In archit...
Normalicy
After: Under the kitchen sink is painted and lined in Plexi as is the recycle area. Plant food is moved to the garage. Garage walls are about half done. Back to the pool, writing, sewing, e...
The Architecture of Entertainment
Flamingo Hotel in its 1953 architecture. UNLV Digital Library. Bugsy Siegel didn’t open the first casino on the highway outside Las Vegas, Cashman and Hull did with their western styled El Ra...
Finished Two
George painting the kitchen…it came out perfect. Two of the organizing projects, kitchen and laundry area, are finished now, and we move on to number 14…the garage. George started that today w...
Celebrating our National Parks
Cabrillo Lighthouse, 2016. I’d forgotten. Nope, not with him around to remind me, so staying home long enough to tell Mariah that the kitchen and doors upstairs were freshly painted, we heade...
Vegas On The Cheap
New York New York. We flew off into the wild on Sunday noonish, and we returned on Tuesday evening. Once we got there, we had a ball. Once we got home, we had fun too. I don’t think I’m fo...
A Day Off
Never before have I felt such relief as I did Friday when I left the shop. Just Bill, being boss for the day, and I were in the back room. There was court ordered volunteer to help also. A gr...
Confessions
1980: Mission Beach Plunge, They won’t let me take a picture at the Y. I’m the middle top lady in red. I have to confess, I truly hate to get out and to the pool in the mornings. I’m such a ...
Asleep Anywhere
August 2016: Before George took some action on the laundry area yesterday. I’ll go down stairs, and when I pass the machines to go to the store, I too will do a little something. Life doesn’...
A Haitus in the Cool
August at Poway Lake. The laundry room is on hiatus. There’s nothing cool down there, but upstairs we are comfortable. We like cool and Comfortable. Yesterday found us far, far inland at G...
Week Nine: Laundry....
…and I may take a week to do this one. These are in the way, and I need to find a new place to store them. Wonderful donations of books at work filled my shelves. Yesterday I got them off th...
Week five: Cookbooks and Recipes
Cookbook bookcase, before. Living near the beach is hell on books. If you don’t dust them every week, the damp ocean air encourages mold to grow on the dust. The mysteries were the worst. ...
Weeks Three and Four:
2010: The Pantry when built. Yes, of course, I’m getting ahead of myself. If I were working full time, I would get through week one in a month. Now here I am done with week four. Yes, after ...
Week 2: One Cupboard
I didn’t have the faintest idea that all those things lived in that tiny cupboard. With G’s help, all of it came down and on to my empty counter. I was in shock, and George was appalled. Slowl...
Week Two: Kitchen Cabinets and Drawers
Drawer 1…am I ever going to use those knives? Four cheese slicers? Three whisks? I tackled two of the drawers and found them full of hidden uselessness. I need to go through them again. I...
A Challenge for Me
One empty counter that’s still empty. 52 Weeks to an Organized Home. I confess this challenge caught my attention. Right now, every week, I take some new thing to the Shop. In a very unorg...
Family Things
While I was off running errands, the doctor returned my call. I have an appointment about my hip pain…which is vastly less since I took forbidden Aleve. While I was feeding us early, the whole ...
Lots of Gratitude
We had a lovely, busy weekend. I confess to a George baked brownie at the BBQ. The next night we climbed to the middle of the Balboa theater and enjoyed “Thriller” by the Gay Men’s Chorus with...
Fragments
Boom! We in San Diego are horrified by the shootings of two San Diego Police officers. It’s not fair to give one something and nothing to the other. I’ve arranged to take a few dollars ou...
A Visit
Granddaughter Sahara. Center, with her two best San Diego Friends. We had a truly wonderful visit from Granddaughter Sahara yesterday. Margot drove Sahara, friends, and family down to see us...
