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Sugar at First Avenue tonight!

Small Project Week has continued. I fixed the closer on our back screen door. I trimmed our hydrangea trees in front. My wife and I strategized on a couple of the other items on our list. Basically, of the 26 things on our list we knocked out about half of…

Biiiiig Stretch

Where do you call home? And why?

Jason Kottke has embarked on a grand attempt to answer that question.

Personally, I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all answer. For me, I feel equally at home in Saint Paul, MN as I do in New Orleans, LA and, strangely,…

Manton Reece – AI in AirPods, Apple Watch

One of the frustrations people have with AI is that it is pushed at us all the time, in features that don’t need it. Technology this powerful should be mostly seamless, yet it’s so new that it’s put in places that are…

More Small Project Week progress…

This floating shelf in the library was sagging forward. It’s straight now (sorry, no “before” photo):

Also, cleaned and reorganized the 3rd and final spice drawer (the worst of the…

Small Project Week continues.

Yet another spice drawer organized (no before picture this time)…

Bridging the Gap – by Pamela Schmid – Unpacking the Words

What started as a desperate plea could so easily have gone sideways if we’d dismissed the neighbor’s concerns. But it turned out she simply needed to be heard, and isn’t that what we all all want and need, especially…

A few more items completed this morning for Small Project Week:

• Replaced a latch on one of the garage windows.
• Moved several boxes if Beatrix’s old clothes from our 3rd floor to storage in the garage.

I also made a batch of Life-Changing 30 Minute Masala Paste in prep…

More Small Project Week progress:

• Cutting, conditioning, and replacing the built-in cutting board (before on the right, after on the left).
• Hanging this “non fumeur” sign that has been kicking around loosely placed in the kitchen for years.

Starting off Small Project Week by beginning a reorganization of our spice drawers…

Before: a mess where you could not see what you have and had to dig around to find anything you needed.

After: Much better. Easy to see what you have.