MessyHouse
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Amazing what havoc a 13-year-old girl can wreak upon an unsuspecting room.
7:49 PM Nov 18th
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Seem to have lost all interest in housework. How to account for that?
7:49 PM Nov 18th
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Our unspectacular maple tree is actually looking pretty good against the consistently gray sky. At least it brightens things up a little.
6:44 AM Oct 30th
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Indian summer? Crisp, clear fall days? Not in these parts, where it's more like monsoon season.
6:42 AM Oct 30th
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The yard already was awash in leaves. 2" of rain later it's just awash. At least wet leaves won't blow into the neighbor's yard. Darn.
6:39 AM Oct 30th
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Oct. 30 and we still haven't carved pumpkins. Or bought pumpkins. Or unearthed our carving supplies.
6:35 AM Oct 30th
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Rainy day, cold rainy night. A day behind my schedule for getting our handful of Halloween decorations in place. Better luck tomorrow?
9:33 PM Oct 1st
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Fall has arrived. Blustery winds, gray skies and a high in the '50s. Got my mums in the porch planters in the nick of time -- for a change.
8:12 PM Sep 28th
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Weeds from hell #4: They don't call it Butterfly Weed for nothing. No happy family of monarchs is worth dealing with this intrusive eyesore.
8:10 PM Sep 28th
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Misdemeanor of my dreams: My neighbor's bounty of lime-green hydrangeas, a pair of shears and me. Under cloak of darkness, of course.
8:09 PM Sep 28th
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A mess of mythical proportions: One bottle of olive oil, one basement floor and one butter-fingered mama.
12:26 PM Sep 16th
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Anyone know how to get rust stains out of white marble?
1:32 PM Sep 15th
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And it rusted.
1:32 PM Sep 15th
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Until I over-watered it.
1:32 PM Sep 15th
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Perfect display spot for the low-growing ficus in the tole planter.
1:30 PM Sep 15th
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Couldn’t wait to replace the faux marble on DR built-in with the real thing.
1:30 PM Sep 15th
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(Edible) Weeds from hell #3: Lemon balm. Which undoubtedly will still be sending shoots up from every crack & crevice come the Apocalypse.
1:28 PM Sep 15th
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Happy misstep: DD’s little footprint in the almost dry poly of the LR floor, circa 2003. Still makes me smile, tho I cringed at the time.
4:30 PM Sep 11th
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…and a1962 paperback about frisky suburbanites tucked between the ceiling pipes in the basement workshop. Dad, are you down there?
9:27 PM Sep 10th
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Favorite finds from this old house: 1933 souvenir coin from the Chicago World’s Fair, a box of gilded metal sconces…
9:26 PM Sep 10th
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- Name Elaine Johnson
- Location suburban Chicago
- Bio Struggling to hold down the fort
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