You may have read in Foster's recent post "Catnip, Anyone?" that there is a door in my house that leads to the garage. You may also have read that Foster loves going in the garage every chance he gets. Which would be okay with me if he would mind when I told him to come …
So the faucet had been leaking for awhile... Not that it was a problem for a certain cat...but it was bugging me. At night I could hear it dripping and would have to get up and move the handle around until I got it to quit. So it was not surprising that eventually I would …
Once upon a time there was a front room... It was much like any other front room, with furniture, curtains, carpet, bookshelves...everything you would expect to see there. But there was only one problem. Nobody ever used it. The actual "family room" is in the back of the house, so this room was always more …
You have doubtless heard the question "What's in a name?" Well, in this post we will ask (but maybe not answer) the age old question: "What's in a garage?" or perhaps more accurately, "What should be in a garage?" It seems like some people just cannot control their garages. I have always been one of …
"No more wire hangers!" You may be familiar with this phrase from the 1978 book "Mommie Dearest" by Christina Crawford. Well, now I have my own phrase: "No more floating shelves!" But allow me to explain. You may remember reading about my floating shelves awhile back in "Climbing the Walls." It's not the shelves I …
I was at Barnes and Noble awhile back and they had a lot of posters up about classic literature. When I saw the one for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", I got the idea for this post. This bottlebrush tree was in our backyard when we were married in 1992. I came across the photo …
I think it's about time for an update on my Whimsical Garden. Feel free to come along for a visit, and I promise you won't get caught in a whimsical spider web! One of the things I like best about my Whimsical Garden is the fact that I now have some solar lights in the …
In the 1970s the opinion was that you should talk to your plants. It was supposed to make them grow better. However, I don't remember ever reading that you were supposed to name them...Meet Sunny, the latest addition to my whimsical garden! Only $4.99 at Orchard's, which I thought was a good price. Not that …
In case you've been wondering (...or not...) I think I'm almost done with the Talavera Kitchen! (For background on this, see Talavera Kitchen, Part 1 and Part 2.) For awhile I had toyed with the idea of contact paper, since last year I had redone the inside of the cabinets, and now I realized …
"What's whimsical about armadillos?" you may ask. The answer is..."Everything!" In the summer of 2015, while sitting with Mark during one of his many hospitalizations, I got the idea to draw whimsical animals, all set in more or less the same jungle-type environment. After doing penguins, cats, and dogs (though not all in the same …
