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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Uncategorized, Pets, Exterior | 5 Comments
In this week’s Celebrity Death Match, we’re pitting two hard-hitting competitors against each other in a duel for the top prize - being the place where Millie Francis curls up to shelter from the wily winter winds.
In the left corner, we have Swamp Cabin. Built from cinderblocks, scrap tin - and a little pluck […]
Monday, August 27th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw | 4 Comments
Last night I found out that in the year of my birth, something else was born - a campy horror movie filmed in none other than Eutaw, Alabama. Known to the locals as “King Cobra,” the movie was latered renamed “Jaws of Satan.”
None of my Eutawan friends have seen the movie, but my […]
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Misfortune, Grumpy Bear | 6 Comments
For the first 19 years of my life, I never had a cavity. My mother, who’d grown up poor and without regular access to dental care, was a stickler for the 6-month checkup. Every time we’d go to the dentist, I’d come home smiling and smug, while my sister had to go back for […]
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Eutaw, Exterior | 7 Comments
One evening last week, Darwin was crouching in the overlong grass of our back yard, trying to replace a part on the dying-one-piece-at-time riding lawnmower he and my dad dubbed Katrina. (The lawnmower - bought new only a few weeks before the hurricane - was found upside down on the wreckage left of my […]
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Bedrooms | 6 Comments
We took the advice of commenter Sandy on the last post and installed the toilet anyway. It’s true that a toilet isn’t that hard to install and uninstall, so we’ll just deal with it again with tile-time comes.
The toilet stuck out into the floor a little farther than the old toilet, so Darwin took […]
