posted by K | filed under Family & Friends, Misfortune | 6 Comments

My favorite thing to do in Biloxi was ride down 90 with my nose pressed against the glass, sighing over the old homes and the massive live oaks. Now I’m afraid the place will never look the same again.
Hurricane Camille is legend around here and mentioned often, always the benchmark for comparison. I […]

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Compared to the folks on the Mississipi and Louisiana coasts, we are doing just fine. We lost power but only for 11 hours (we live on the same block as a hospital so always get our power back up quickly). We had fierce winds from about 4:30 p.m. till midnight, the hardest wind I’ve […]

posted by K | filed under Kitchen | 5 Comments

Why is it that the perfect kitchen is so important? Even to people like me who couldn’t cook to save themselves from getting thrown into a tank full of sharks with lasers on their heads?
For us, convenience was the main reason the kitchen was the first major project we tackled. We had to […]

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I’m still in Dallas. Last night our company sponsored a party at Gilly’s (the mechanical bull bar from Urban Cowboy). No, I did not ride the bull. There were free drinks, but it would take about 100 of them to make me ride a bucking mechanical beast.
I’ll probably get home around midnight tomorrow and […]

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I’m in Dallas, Texas, on a business trip, and my hotel room has a subway-tiled shower with one of those curved shower curtain rods that provide additional space in the shower. I love them both! This is at the Hyatt near the convention center if anybody else wants to test it out before committing […]

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We managed to do zero work on the house this weekend. I was busy playing with my new camera and baking. Our Eutaw friends planned an “Unhealthy Dinner,” and I made a caramel cake for it. I love caramel cake, but my mother always discouraged me from making it because you have to cook […]

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