'OR house' Category
Before photos
I forgot to take photos before we cleared some stuff out of the garage; we removed kayak paddles and paraphernalia that were on the kayak rack, oars, and a windsurfing board and wood that had been stashed on that ceiling rack you can see in the photo of the rowing shell end of the garage. […]
cooking (and not cooking)
It’s very annoying that some of my updates get rejected by LJ; no idea why that happens. (This is why yesterday’s update from here just went up over there – if you read an LJ and you didn’t see it, it’s about workouts, migraines, massages and thyroid function and involves some minor kvetching. Nothing too […]
Three strikes and I’m out
In this case, ripping out. I’ve been making a sweater for Ted (Ravelry link); it’s knitted form the bottom up and I had finished the whole lower body section and most f the back. Unfortunately, since I’d kept the front stitches on the needles, at some point I didn’t quite get to the spot where […]
updates on all fronts
Job: I was feeling a bit gloomy: at least I have been getting calls from recruiters, but hadn’t gotten further. One of them had me fill in six (!) forms and reformat my resume in order to apply for a state government job, and then told me – only after I queried back – that […]
the toilet exploded!
OK, I’m exaggerating. A little. (This entry is also in the other blog; I’m doing more crossposting than usual, I guess because new home ownership is the sort of thing I want to share in the pubic blog too.) Anyway, back to the toilet. We went down to Rowell (the lake house) last night with […]
In the new house
Oops – I just realized I haven’t posted in most of a week. That’s because the intervening time has been all about moving. We’re not quite done yet; it’s amazing how much stuff there was to move from a furnished flat we only lived in for two months. A lot of it was groceries. Some […]
cooking and contentment
Those are the makings for dinner – shredded chicken for a chicken vegetable pot pie, with cheesecake-stuffed strawberries for dessert. I’ll be doing my first shift as a library volunteer this afternoon, so I figured I’d better do some preparation early. I’ve been doing some work (calling around about getting house utilities set up, and […]
more house ramblings
On the food front: today I’m making a pot roast, for the first time since returning to the US. I was never able to make a decent one in the Netherlands; something about the cuts of meat there meant that they always came up tough and dry. This time I’m using the Pioneer Woman’s recipe; […]
tired!
OK, we’re exhausted. On Wednesday night we went down to the lake house (we named it Rowell, not sure if I ever mentioned that here). Thursday morning early the moving truck showed up, with all our stuff from the Netherlands. The truck wasn’t more than half-full; we’ve been living in furnished flats for the last […]
Nine Calls Later, or why I will be avoiding Sears in future
The weekend before last, we went to the local-ish Sears to buy a washer, dryer, and refrigerator for the new house. We bought our appliances at a Sears in Eugene for the lake house; we got what we wanted, they were delivered as arranged, everything went amoothly. We both noticed that the salesman smelled of […]