Posts Tagged ‘bungalow’
Housecleaning anticlimax
I have more anxiety over the housekeeping service I’ll be getting tomorrow than I do about the surgery I’m having in three days to remove a major organ. The two procedures are analogous in a couple of ways. Both represent dramatic attempts to deal with what have [Read More]
Unnecessary remodeling
This was perfectly fine (when it was kept clean and orderly): (March 2007) Of course, it wasn’t kept clean and orderly. Three months after I moved in was the peak of cleanliness and organization for the bungalow. A lifetime propensity towards disorder and a little [Read More]
Spring: Scotch Broom
As promised to HL-S, photos of my Scotch Broom from three weeks of weeks ago. These bloom fragrant, tiny flowers for about three weeks, and then they look like brooms for the other 49 weeks of the year. I wish I could bottle the sweet fragrance in a Yankee candle. [Read More]
Spring: Rhododendron?
These came with the bungalow. I don’t trim them munch. I didn’t really know what they were until a few minutes ago, when I came to the conclusion that they are rhododendron. Someone please verify. And, then, what are the white flowers that are coming through [Read More]
Home decor inquiries
If you’ve seen my pet pictures, you know what my living room furniture looks like. I’ve got a couch and loveseat, both generous hand-me-downs from when my friend J got married. The pets obviously love the furniture. I, at the age of 34, have still never bought a [Read More]
Live-blogging housework
(Not really live-blogging, since I’m not publishing this until I feel like I’ve accomplished anything…or I’ve given up.) 2:44pm Just trying something different. Every weekend goes pretty much the same. High ambition for housework. Very little [Read More]
Suckitude for 1800
Leave it to me to muddy a four-day weekend by inviting an expensive plumbing disaster upon myself. The obvious inconveniences like very limited access to water and emergency plumbing expenses aside, this unpleasant episode epitomizes my lack of basic adult life-skills. [Read More]
Roof of All Evil
My home got a new roof today, for reasons I won’t care to get into. Despite the title of this post, I don’t really want to write about the roof right now. I have some general questions. I know about as much about maintaining a house as Sarah Palin knows about [Read More]
