iris lilies
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good one!

It’s not too late, I can dig much of it out of the garbage. I guess keep it in the freezer? I’m open to keeping it around I’m just not sure what to...

I bought a smoked duck for $17 at the meat market in Herman. Boy is it fatty. So much fat! I’m throwing tons of that fatty skin away. We sliced off...

Catherine those are nice! For a while I actively hated Joyce Carol Oates but I haven’t read anything of hers for years to incite that dislike so I’ve...

I don’t like hoods at all because they don’t stay up and they don’t really keep my ears warm. I like a head wrap around my ears I don’t need an...

I have a few autographed by the author, but if I had been smarter I would have had them not do a personal inscription with my name. They would be...

I am watching “pretend it’s a city “a tv documentary series about Fran Leibowitz and the city she loves, NYC. In it she rambles on about New York...

Yes, I thought about the few books from my childhood that I donated to the bookstore because I was thinking what if some woman my age is out there...

I think most of us can name several people in our sphere who use their government IRS refund as a savings account. Or view it as a windfall. It is...

I agree with you that our resident virus does not present nearly the horrifying limits and destruction to life that .wWII did. I mean, even here...

Yay! A clean, beautiful, all-yours space! It will be lovely.

I hate the inability to assess fabric too. And yes, searching for fabric content—good luck! I hate poly too. I settle for cotton blends, but never...

Yes, our third floor holds the shelving for our library so few books here are visible to visitors. As an exceedingly disciplined buyer of books, I...

exactly, donating is not always easy. It’s better to just not bring it into your house to begin with. Well I do not like dumping things into the...

I don’t think the world realizes how much printed matter is NOT available in digital form. Over the past year I have purchased a couple of...

Being 11 up is very high! That will be fun.

I have wondered about the prewar building process. The owners did a fair amount of building it themselves I think at least they did finishing work. I...

Sure I like the staircase because they’re all over my city neighborhood! The Walnut turned spindles and newell post post is common in my victorian...

That was the right decision. Painting exterior masonry is a whole different kettle of fish from interior brick. Painting the masonry is known in my...

You have that early drywall as well? I haven’t run into it before. Did you remove it from the rest of your house?

Newgig, thanks for that thorough explanation of wall treatment on the logs.a lot of work!

And finally, a feature That will stay exactly the same: this nice large fireplace. It is handsome and nicely situated in the living room, and we have...

All of the drywall, wallboard, ceiling plaster, and especially all of the cheap paneling, needs to come off all of the walls. This will of course...

Large room that is now a bedroom. It originally was a garage. We’re going to turn it into a kitchen. It is a very confused room.

Some current photos before renovation the Victorian staircase. It comes out, and staircase is reversed Replacing the floor on the left...

I just like to say that “just” doing 10 things is actually doing a crap ton of things!

I think that’s beautiful, but I wonder how effective the paint is. How long does it take to paint, how many coats, and does it bleed thru after time...

Don’t know if this is common in nursing homes, The standard recommended treatment or is something that this doctor did or?

It’s a great thread. I need to try some of these because I’m in a rut with commercial coleslaw dressing and we eat a lot of cabbage.

My friend’s 90+ year old father, in a nursing home for several years, recently had Covid and recovered. Then they Gave him a vaccine. He died on...

How hard is it to get people in to do work? Here is just bloody impossible.

I like them both and having a balcony on their bedroom is really nice. The colors in the second one are strong but I like them.

Agreed .Steve, I normally like gray a lot. It’s a pleasant neutral and if it wasn’t so damn popular everywhere I would’ve done my condo in the color...

I am jumping for joy! Our architect-neighbor just knocked on my door to tell me our contractor will start work on our Hermann house in about...

Can you believe the unimaginative materials out there? Everyone is doing gray plank type flooring. Everyone is doing white shaker cabinets. I’m so...

I have the luxury of being able to choose expensive materials. I think expensive materials in neutral colors age better than cheap trends of the...

yes, I can see that, which is why I’m stepping to the back of my line (not the back of the line for the population in general) because there are...

yes, I hear Jane in my head with responses to pessimistic outlooks. George Parker, this doesn’t mean that I’m especially optimistic about the state...

Here’s the thing about an optimistic outlook: our time is over, the time of us oldsters. I think we are handing the youngsters a world that is not so...

The newspaper from Hermann, a small town of 2500, has a column every week listing the known exposures to coronavirus.December 7 at the village...

I am only following headline news and post such as yours, so I am in no hurry to get it also. We are staying far away from crowds and have very...

Rosa, Thank you for this recommendation. I don’t know if I’ll read it or not, but it took me down an interesting rabbit hole of books that have won...

Do you still add oil to food? One thing I read said yes. I see an air fryer as being good in preventing aerosol oils and particulates floating...

I love the schtick of Kim and Penn Holderness. Here is Kim with her new air fryer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hyuMqeLf7_o

All upper cabinets will have glass fronts. But likely, just faux mullions. Getting real, honest to god mullions costs about a million dollars...

Well, I can’t say that I liked the stove wall with all the implements lined up on it. That looks messy to me. So I am not replicating that one.

I think I might own this for ten years. It is possible. I will say that the unit with the few cabinets had no trouble selling. It was beautifully...

Wow, pomegranate juice stains like anything. Rip sweater. cant say I have ever cut a q tip in half. Guess maybe I wont after reading your...

This is a clean looking wall. Perhaps the “white” aspect helps. My cabinetry is light blue. I was really on the fence about a cabinet over the...

Aww, good new on the cat front.

So now DH and I are in the thorniest part of condo renovation, designing kitchen cabinets. I knew we would clash on this big time. We are. This...

It is primer, not top coat paint.

I will see. My idea of using electric kettle is to keep DH out of the tiny kitchen, away from the main microwave oven. There is room for 1 person...

DH does the same for water for our house plants. About the $210 worth of paint —it’s wonderful because that paint is not sitting around our...

DH was giddy this week because he took 7 gallons of primer paint from the alley where our neighbor left it. This neighbor was cleaning out his house...

Pharmacists have a high level of microbiology training. It is weird when one of them escapes that mindset. But then, there are plenty of M.D....

my city’s public health department put out a very carefully worded statement about park playgrounds in summertime. They did not say playgrounds are...

Speaking of textile purchases through Amazon, I just ordered my second twin size comforter. I absolutely love the one I got a few weeks ago. I get...

The Miss Read books are classic cosy village books, around for decades. I have not read one myself. I do like village/neighborhood books set in...