It’s An Out-hole, Not An In-hole
I was so pleased with how we handled the difficult trap out location at Karen’s and Jessi’s house yesterday. Then, today, while I was standing in the shower, (I get all my best ideas while in the shower) I realized that I’d installed the one way exit on the wall entrance of the Crotch Banger [...]
Crotch Banging. And Not In A Good Way.
Jessi and Karen are tired of sharing their fruit salad with 10,000 buzzy pals every morning. Since they are nice, young ladies, they advertised in the neighborhood newsletter that they had a bee colony that needed to be relocated from the retaining wall supporting their terrace rather than calling an exterminator. I went over to [...]
Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy Aloe Vera
So, more trading today. I’m trying to start a “gardener’s guild” in my area made up of master gardeners, backyard homesteaders, and other random collectors of plants. We’ll work on each other’s gardens, trade plants and produce, and generally come up with ways to get more people growing stuff in our neighborhood. So I was [...]
Cash Is A Boring Currency
One of my almost new year’s resolutions is to use more “alternate currencies” instead of cash. In the past week, I’ve traded: 1. Tupperware for 15 pounds of organic granulated sugar. 2. Tupperware for a used teapot. 3. DJ services for free dinners at The Nickle. 4. Climbing rope used to suspend George Clooney from [...]
Aside from my childhood dog…Best. Birthday. Present. Ever.
For my birthday I’ve been immortalized in a playing card by my boyfriend and our friend Jeff. My boyfriend did the artwork for LIFEBOAT, a card game, where players are pitted against each other as six different survivors of a Titanic-style shipwreck who must share the same Edwardian-era lifeboat. The game, which has a cult [...]
My Evil Scheming Ways
How do you get your boyfriend to finally sort out the garage in preparation for a garage sale he doesn’t want to have? Hold the garage sale on your birthday so he can’t say no. Yes, I’m terrible. But now that he’s resigned to the task of giving me the birthday morning that I really [...]
I’m Suffering Separation Anxiety…
…from my long-distance carrier. I’ve been using Vonage for the last five years. I love it. But I have to come to grips with the fact that even though Vonage supplies me with limitless phone calls to all of North America and most of Western Europe for $25 a month, I’m double-paying for my domestic [...]
