Thursday, June 29th, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Uncategorized | 9 Comments
In preparation for our whirlwind 5-day 4th of July bathroom work extravaganza, I’m trying to figure out what to do with the window.
When we first discovered that a taller window had once been in this space, I considering it merely fascinating. Now it’s a very sharp thorn in my side.
Darwin wants to leave the […]
Monday, June 26th, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
We’ve replaced one house guest with another. This new guest is of the furry and ferrety variety.
We are babysitting my boss’s beloved pet ferret Lucy while he and his family are at the beach this week. She has a cage, but they let her out for extended romps about the house. Since we have two […]
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Uncategorized | 4 Comments
I realized the other night that I am messy in the bathroom. No, not in the gross way - I’m saving that realization for another day. I mean I splash water everywhere around the sink when I’m washing my face.
How does one avoid this anyway? I bring the water up to my face, it runs […]
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
We tackled the tub on Saturday before the 3-day-long Father’s Day festivities commenced. As always, I hoped the chemical stripper would be a miracle cure, that the paint would cower at the sight of it and yield easily under the might of our scrapers.
As always, things happened a little differently. Darwin bought a “semi-paste” […]
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Uncategorized | 10 Comments
The ratio of Kristin to Darwin in our house is now 2 to 1. No, I have not doubled in size (I’ve actually lost weight over the past few months, hurray for me). We have a houseguest this week, whose name happens to be Kristin. Actually Kristen.
She’s one of my dear friends from college, and […]
Monday, June 12th, 2006
posted by Kristin | filed under Uncategorized | 10 Comments
If we’re going to get the master bathroom functioning while Darwin’s off the week of 4th of July, that means we have a lot of prep work to do. For my part, I was determined to scrape and paint the clawfoot tub this weekend.
I researched it first on Houseblogs.net because I knew I’d read about […]








