Have I mentioned I’m getting anxious for spring? Maybe we all are. I can’t help but flip through books, catalogues, and online shops of plants pining for so much variety. Where can I get it the cheapest?

I wake up from a nap on the couch. It’s not even noon. Why am I so tired? Maybe it’s just that kind of day, gloomy. Or maybe it’s been Arya’s sleep schedule changing and with it my own. “Her 13 month sleep

When we moved into our house in May we knew one of the first projects was going to have to be a back door. You see the house is a duplex and our upstairs home is actually a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom. Arya

Since the move I’ve tried really hard not to stop by any thrift shops. My true nature isn’t minimalism, it tends to be a bit on the “collector” side of things (to say it nicely). I get a thrill out of

Week 3 - Jan 20 2020 I remember when 2020 seemed so far away that it would never actually come and now it’s here. Time plodding along unending at least as we know it. I’ve been spending much of that time

Jan 8 2020 GATE PROJECT We moved into our new place in May after 2 years of trying to find something that wasn’t just the regular house butted up to our neighbors in the suburbs but that wasn’t so far

Jan 6th 2020 (Please visit my blog: for the podcast recording of this post) The first week of 2020 and my desk’s skattered with books and clippings, notepads and rulers and planners, plant lists, PT exercises,