animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

rakuten

Not a sponsored post, unfortunately. If only I had a readership base greater in number than single digits… I heard about this website through a few e-newsletters that I subscribe to. I thought it sounded too good to be true, but after doing some research, it sounded legit, so I …

don’t do this

I bought a new throw rug for the living room last summer. Tilly kept peeing on it so I had to remove it from the room. But the second to the last time she did it, I didn’t catch it (it was a shag rug so you couldn’t tell unless …

trim

Twenty-one years later…the trim project in my house is finally done. We removed the trim in the living room, dining room, and hall when installing laminate flooring the year Jake was born. In retrospect, that was a horrible idea–we should have just painted it. Anyway, the hall was the last …

2021: the year in review

Or should we call it 2020, part 2? It was a weird year, for sure, but I haven’t done one of these in a while, so here goes… I guess the biggest thing for me was being in a relationship for 6 months. It was the first one since my …

don’t look up

This was a pretty great movie. The critics don’t seem to like it, but it had enough star power for me to give it a shot. I mean with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep (who is making the age of 72 look fantastic), and more, how can you go …