Museums and local collections are great resources. You’ll find the museums thing to be easy, if not a long term task. Searching out collections, both old and current, are wonderful sources of information. For instance, if you wanted a good run down of California locations, the Natural Hist...
Youngstown steel kitchen cabinets had countertops that, early on at least, were designed withtheir own integral steel edging. Ohthese cabinets — from our amazing set of stories on this complete kitchen + stove found in storage New Old Stock — which we helped find a forever home in a museum!
changing developments. I have “proclaimed the year of the Lord’s favor,” as is written in the Gospel of Luke–the text I studied throughout this last season of Advent, and which reminded me of my connection to Elizabeth, and to John. Advent may be over, but I still find myself ...
My faux orchid arrangement is not inexpensive, but such a beautiful piece. I’m so grateful I have it! SHOP THE PLANTS 4. Nearly Natural The faux tree and house plant selection at Nearly Natural is second to none and while I haven’t personally bought from them, I know people who ...
and old driver’s licenses and school ID cards. I find I put something in the little box about once a week. This is frequently enough that, by the end of a year, or six months even, the little box needs to be emptied into a big box. And after 40 some-odd years of walking this...
If the idea of moving to Mexico only to be surrounded by people from your own country is not appealing, it’s easy to find a place where you can do the opposite. This is a very big country with metropolitan cities and gorgeous “Magic Towns” that are more manageable spread from coast...
there’s a long story why I’m not putting my k-cups in cabinets there. So I do kind of need something nice and tidy to put them in. I could have only bought one but, oh well. This is what I did. And this is one of those things that I need to stop doing. It is one of...
Whirlpool recently introduced asimple little airflow test kitfor their dryers that makes this an easy thing to test. Works on both their 29 and 27 inch models, and is very inexpensive. I recommend those if you own a Whirlpool-built machine. You’ll find them on the ‘parts and tools’ ...
Once you learn the basics you can begin tweaking, fiddling and meddling until you find your pulse. Your mark. Your touch. Typically, I try to follow a recipe exactly as written on the first attempt. Any attempt after, however, is fair game. Even at first attempt, I am liable to cut ...
(Battery usage goes way up when the phone can’t find a usable cell tower. That’s about half of each trip.) JP Kalishek says: June 5, 2021 at 5:28 am “… and don’t even believe in masks, for Gaia’s sake.” Quick, change the search engine to hide all the papers and re...