This is how I remember a dress looking when I was 8 years old and trying to learn to sew on a sewing machine.
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Out of City Truth #11
#11- Composting. Built a compost bin 12 months or so ago and find it such a rewarding experience to be able to compost food stuffs. Haven’t dug down to the bottom for the ‘product’ will do so when I plant the seeds. But just to see the bin not increase in size over time, meaning …
Out of City Truth #10
#10. The smell of the wash hung out of doors to dry in the fresh air.
Out of City Truths #9
#9 General Delivery at the Post Office. The addresses are scarce and the drivers of UPS and FEDEX unreliable. If what you are expecting gets wrongly delivered to the door of someone else, they keep it. The way to ensure that you get yours is to go to the local Post Office and sign up …
Out of City Truths #8
#8 Driving. In a car, by myself. Anytime. Anywhere. As fast as. Rain. Shine. Got gas. Good tires. Maintained. There is nothing like car driving oneself hither, thither and yon.
Out of City Truths #7
#7 Sleep. I fall asleep and i stay asleep. No noise. There are no cows or roosters or people or cars or other ambient noises in the morning. Only the sound of the sun rising and until I hear that, I am dead to the world. What a treat is that!
Trumped!
All of these cartoon were in one week, one issue of the New Yorker.
Spring & Windows part 2
The finished product! What it takes to get there.
Spring & Windows
It comes over me suddenly, an inability to tolerate dirty windows. For reasons unknown our rental contract states we are not allowed to hire window washers to clean the windows on the outside. Our windows do ‘tip in’ however and if you can make the contortions to reach the bottom of the top window, you …
Out of City Truths #6
#6. Big fireplace Logs. My apartment fireplace is sweet and more than adequate and gives off the glow of hearth with duraflame logs, but here, big, cumbersome-drag-them-up-from-the-basement where I helped stack them last fall logs are ___________. They feel warm and just getting them up the stairs is an exercise in a number of areas …