ducked!

I’ve been meaning to post these, but kept forgetting. Finally found the time to get the shots, clean them up (small room + bright flash = bad pictures, IMO), and post to galleries. But now you can see the results of my sister’s infamous near-disastrous lovely visit while she cared for our animals while we [...]

oh, the house, it’s so painful.

This entire post is mostly to organize my thoughts, make something I can come back to, refresh my memory so I don’t forget — again. That book I got in college from a friend should’ve had a theme not of, “oh, the places you’ll go,” but “the places you’ll redo.”
Things left undone, by room.

An entire assortment of lessons learned.

After the last week or so of nonstop go-go-go (with the final note of it all being the news a friend is shipping off to Iraq for a month, sigh), I realized the best sanity saver is to avoid deep thoughts and chase the shiny, which for me will always be How To Occupy Space. [...]