Casa Decrepit

I've been going through a phase with the garden. All spring I loved it, and when I started working long hours I missed it terribly. Then as summer set in, it just got to be a lot of work. The...

We've made a strategic decision about the roof, which is that we want it to limp through another several years so that we can afford to do the rear addition we'd like at the same time that the entire structure...

Let me tell you about our new caulk gun. We had a cheap-o metal caulk gun that was your basic caulk gun, no bells, no whistles. It worked OK, except for construction adhesive, which is much harder to squeeze out...

It's October, which means the chrysanthemum is blooming. The first blossom opened up right on the first day of autumn, which is really charming. Many people do not like mums, but I have a lot of unusual and dramatic plants...

On Wednesday I was talking to a coworker about some logistics for the LEAP sandcastle classic (my firm does this every year to help fund arts education for Bay Area kids), and she mentioned that rain was in the forecast,...

This weekend Noel's parents were in town, and you might think that we'd get little to nothing done with the constant whirl of social events and so on. But instead they insisted that we put them to work, so we...

So the front steps have been peeling, and we wanted to get them repainted before the rain gets started. We have a short list of projects we need to get done the bad weather pinned to the bookcase in the...

Today was a bit obscure, as work days go. We went to Pagano's first thing, and got some paintable latex caulk, plus paint for the stairs (which are peeling) plus an explanation for why the stairs are peeling (apparently you...

That is how my compost will be going, or at least a small portion of my compost. My new compost tumbler arrived Thursday. (I finally bit the bullet and bought one, as the ones I'd had offered to me free...