I’ve been working a lot in the gardens, MFH has been busy, and StrongBaby has reached the Age of Mischief.
I made a laundry bag from yet another tablecloth. I usually don’t like to cut up perfectly good vintage linens, but this one was rather garish and had barely been used, let alone loved to [...]
…is featured on the Make: blog today. The amplifier is his Stella Amp design; with the addition of a few other things, it can be entirely powered by the sun. It has cute little LEDs that show when it is charging or fully charged.
…my children are much more interested in being read to.
I’ve also been doing some sewing off and on: two tablecloth skirts done, two to go. More than a year ago I was given a better sewing machine than my crotchety old one, and I finally took the time to figure out how to [...]
Let’s build a new house.
Let’s build the new house out of the old house.
Let’s live in the old house until the new house is finished.
–Remy Charlip, Arm in Arm
Now that moving chores and tax season have begun to subside, I have been working (in my spare moments) on drafting an A-line skirt pattern for myself, [...]
After numerous and various excitements and adventures, we are settling in to the new place and enjoying it. (The phone company showed up two weeks late, so I’ve been living entirely offline until now.)
The weather took a fast turn from snow to summer; I hope it backtracks a little and does some spring.
We found a new place; it was probably the easiest housing search I’ve ever had. No beige, thank God. Now for the hard part: getting our stuff there. So far I’ve just been purging; we’ve been living the frugal life hard the past few years, to cope with various major expenses, [...]
We’re still not sure where we’re moving, but God did put one house in our path to see, if not to live in–a truly homely house tucked away in an unlikely place. It was good for my soul to see that such houses still exist; I am finding that nearly all of the rental [...]
We’ve been thinking for a while now about moving to a new place–and kind of living paycheck-to-paycheck in terms of certainty about the future–but now circumstances have conspired to pick the date for us: by the end of February, we will be out of this particular beige shoebox-shaped living space. God only knows [...]
“…is do my happy little taxes in peace.” –I may have discovered another sentence that has never before been uttered in English. Digging deep into the numbers has been one of my few joys lately; we are nearing another milestone for MFH’s amplifier kit sales, and so the forces of darkness have been [...]
In physics, there is the Three Body Problem–trying to determine the motion of three objects that are exerting gravitational effects on each other. The “Two Body Problem” is the problem of finding jobs for both members of a physicist couple in the same geographical area. The Two Artists Problem is the problem of [...]