The Big Door Theory Part 2

And then came the installation of the door handles. I, cocksure since I had fairly easily installed two other handles, allotted 15 minutes to each of the other two to be installed. An hour later I was still on the first. Bloody complicated little contraptions, door handles. But the thing that got me wasn’t the complexity [...]

The Big Door Theory

An impromptu DIY date night. (Yeh, remember them? It’s been a while.) We had had doors idly leaning against a wall on our patio for too long. Hubby said it was time to install them. (Yeh, kind of ironic, no? He’s not exactly swift with his own DIY projects, my Hubby.) Why had I put [...]

Meet Gail Roberts

There’s this woman, this artist, this presence here in Tucson and her name is Gail T. Roberts and she’s, in my opinion, pretty fab. I visited her pop-arty house and turned it into a feature. It wasn’t difficult; who has pink papier mache pigs hanging from the ceiling? Her garage is a studio where very talented people [...]

knackered.com*

* Knackered being a British term for very, very tired. Today was Day 2 of my “oh-God-if-I-don’t-do-something-drastic-soon-I will-become-the-size-of-a-house” regime, one which entails lots of fruits and vegetables, lots less bread, more exercise, and missing Cadbury’s Mini Eggs like mad. I got two jump starts last night. One was that Hubby took so long to prepare [...]

Spring fever

On Monday we had hail and, in parts, snow. on Tuesday, grim coldness again. On Wednesday it was a gorgeous 70 degrees, and it’s been climbing since. I don’t mean to sound like a scene from the Sound of Music or anything, but I adore this team of year in Tucson. The smell of orange [...]