animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

a guide to the good life

I’ve never documented the nonfiction books I have read, but that’s about to change. I’ve been reading a lot of nonfiction in the past couple of years and would like to keep track of them, so this seems like the best place to do that. This was a decent book …

cabinet project

I think I mentioned I was working on a project over Christmas. It’s been in use for a while, but I didn’t completely finish it until this evening. My inspiration came from this video. Obviously, I did a few things differently. The main thing was the top. It looked too …

mine

This was a re-read of a memorable book I read a long time ago. In it, the main character (Mary Terror), who was a radical hippie, stole a newborn baby from the hospital and went on a quest to find her long-lost love, who was also the leader of the …

things

I painted the laundry room yesterday. Earlier in the week, I removed the laundry tub to make that job easier, only to learn that the shutoff valves for the faucet were not working (they did not fully stop the flow of water). It was around 8:30 pm so I didn’t …

lee

This was an interesting biopic about photographer Lee Miller, a wartime correspondent for Vogue during WW2. Before the war started, a scene showed Lee and her friends discussing news reports from Germany. What they were saying on the news sounded eerily familiar, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on …