Moving experiences
We’re in the home stretch on the big move now. We take possession of the new house in Manotick on Thursday, and we move the week after that. We’ve got the basement and the garage mostly packed up, and...
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Five things I couldn’t throw away
As I’m packing, I keep having these great ideas for blog posts that will never get written, because they’ll either be no longer relevant or (more likely) completely forgotten by the time my life slows...
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Welcome home
Guess what we got today? A new house!! Related posts (automatically generated):How to host an at-home art themed birthday party for seven year old boys in five easy steps Too close to home
View ArticleToday’s cautionary tale brought to you by the letter F, for furnace. And...
So here’s my nickel’s worth of free advice for you. When your 19 year old (but only two months old to you) furnace starts making odd squeaky noises when it starts up, you should not ignore it. You may...
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In which the house of her dreams continues to vex her
We’ve just put the final bit of shiny wrap and silky ribbon on our first Christmas in our new house. It was, by all accounts, a lovely Christmas. Now with the insanity of the season more or less behind...
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Crazy garbage-picking wife
That’s what Beloved called me last week when I returned from errands with yet another car-load of other people’s junk, rescued from the curbside. “I’m going to start calling you ‘crazy garbage-picking...
View ArticleThe garden that wasn’t to be
In the dark, cold days of January, I wrote this ridiculously optimistic list of things that I couldn’t wait to do this summer, and at the top of that list was a garden. I’d imagined tilling up a meter...
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This may be the most excited I’ve ever been about vegetables
I‘ve been hearing about community supported agriculture (CSA) for quite some time, and meaning to do it for a while. The way it works is that you buy a “share” in a local farm early in the year, and...
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Our first CSA share from Roots and Shoots Farm!
Yesterday I picked up our first CSA (community shared agriculture) share from Roots and Shoots farm. I was supposed to pick it up Wednesday in Manotick, but apparently I can’t read simple directions...
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In which she discovers the effect of a roll of toilet paper on a load of laundry
Have you ever wondered what might happen if you throw a roll of toilet paper into a load of laundry? Or moreso, a roll of one-ply paper on a load of dark dress clothes? Well wonder no more, bloggy...
View ArticleIn which she decides that maybe she doesn’t like living in the countryside so...
Annual leaf rake-up, Bag 1 What a gorgeous day to be outside. Yanno, I really don’t mind raking up the leaves. I rarely have an excuse to come out and enjoy the yard this time of year, and it will be a...
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A very long ramble about about the time the coffee maker died and she lost an...
On a Sunday morning already off to a rocky start by virtue of it starting at 5:15 am, and further compromised by the need to stand barefoot outside on the frozen patio bricks in nothing but a nightgown...
View ArticleThe one where she set the stove on fire
We’ve had the new oven for maybe three or four months now. I like it, which makes it seem even more odd that I’d set it on fire. My first kitchen fire EVER, no less. I know, lousy cook and hopeless...
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Curse you, Michael Pollan!
When I read Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto in 2008, it radically changed how I thought about food and eating. I took to heart then and still try hard to live by his...
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Hunting a Christmas Tree in Twelve Photos
We went back to Thomas Tree Farm in North Gower (rapidly becoming our favourite!) to get our Christmas tree this weekend. It was a little bit on the crazy busy side, but we still had a great morning...
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Weekend project: Re-upholstering the dining room chairs
We’ve had our dining room chairs for 15 years now. The summer we got married, we got them from the As-Is bin at Ikea, I know because the words “as is” are still written on the underside of them in...
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Kitchen remodel phase one: In which the schedule gets accelerated
We’d just paid the deposit and signed the contract on our kitchen renovation, with work scheduled to begin in late May, when the contractor sent me an email. “We’ve had an opening and our next client...
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Kitchen renovation phase two: Destruction and chaos
We’ve arrived at the end of the first week of the great kitchen renovation project with sanity (barely) intact. In case you were wondering, it takes about a full week to adapt to the idea of not having...
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Renovation project: a ten-minute update for an eight-year-old sofa
We’ve been meaning to do something about the sofa for quite some time now. Funny, not too long ago I came across the blog post I wrote in 2008 when we bought it. It’s been a great couch – oversized and...
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The IKEA Sustainability Project
It’s time to throw back the curtain on a fun new project the family has been working on through the summer! We’ve been selected as participants in IKEA’s Sustainable Living project. Through the...
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