Tees, part II

This one wasn’t as fun to sew, since I had lots of difficulties with the neckline: with deciding how to do it, and then in the actual sewing of it, and finally in its not turning out as nicely as I’d hoped. I’m tempted to detail everything that went wrong along the way [...]

Canyon Overlook Hike at Zion National Park

I already blogged about this hike here; now I present the photos. The main road through Zion’s goes past the trailhead for this hike (which is a stairway up to the overhang/trail) and after we got home, our next-door neighbors told us that they’d driven through Zion’s that evening and happened to see us [...]

More fun with malaprops

(An imaginary conversation made with real usages extracted from the rich mines of the internet.)
“How was your doctor visit?”
“Good – I don’t have prostrate cancer, so that’s good to know. I always hate having to drop trowel for the exam, of course.”
“Yeah. I had to take my kid in to have some suchers a while [...]

Still in training

Last night Dean and I watched the first couple episodes of the The Pallisers, a Victorian period piece based on novels by Anthony Trollope. I’m afraid the pacing and production values are a little too 1970s for me (which is to say, they’re slow and cheap,) (well, the costumes and sets don’t look cheap, [...]

Curlilocks, Curlilocks

A couple of weeks ago I remembered I had some ancient pink curlers. They’re pretty decrepit so I need to replace them, but we’ve been having fun with them. (The photo of Rose is from last week, and I wish I’d gotten one yesterday, because last week was cute, but yesterday’s do was [...]

You will be assimilated (Photoshop = fun for the whole family)

Dean got an idea yesterday and told the kids not to look while he worked on it. Mabel kept stealing clandestine glimpses of the computer screen and there was lots of suspense and drama. This morning Dean unveiled the finished project (the above image,) and, in an unexpected twist, Isaac hates it. [...]

There’s a fine balance between having a life and blogging,

because if you blog everything that happens to you, all that would happen to you would be to sit and blog all day. And if you have a truly thrilling life, you’d never have time to blog it. I tend to lean towards sitting all day and blogging*, but since I’m attacking the [...]

Actually, yes, they’ve found a direct correlation between nerve fragility and number of progeny

I probably shouldn’t tell you this, (although if you have a blog that collects statistics then you already know it,) but I get to see which internet queries lead people to my blog — and it’s heaps of fun. I never would have guessed that slapping up a photo of the two new cabinets [...]

James Lileks, ‘86 vintage

His acting is corny, but his writing is great:

Tees

Short version: I sewed a new shirt. See pictures below.
(Note: the pictures are lousy. That’s because I’m too eager to post about my succesful sewing project to wait for daylight photos, and because there was a big smudge on my mirror that I was also too impatient to clean.)
Long version: [...]