It occurs to me that there are some things about housework that I was taught as a wee child, and which I consider pretty well foundational to making housework go easily and successfully, that it is just possible not everyone knows. So I thought I would share. Clean from top to bottom. Gravity works. Take [...]
We had a 30% chance of thunderstorms last night here. All 30% appears to have happened right in front of my house. And right on top of my car. Guess I know what I’ll be doing today, and it’s not my copyedits.
Since someone emailed to ask, here’s the approximate frequency with which I do basic household maintenance chores. Daily Wash all dishes & cookware and/or put into dishwasher. I do not go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink. Period. It’s unsanitary and, moreover, there are few things I find as repulsive as having to [...]
Despite my flagrant, unrepentant domesticity, I rarely think of myself as a “good housekeeper.” Households don’t hold still. A household is basically a container in which you keep your personal allotment of entropy, and as a result there are never not things that you could usefully be doing. For some reason, my brain is [...]
Strange things, indeed. I’ve moved my office, we’ve moved our living room. What used to be our living room is mostly empty, and will soon be even emptier. Then it will get fuller again. We’re rearranging pretty much the entirety of the interior of our little stone house these days to make room for [...]
For reasons that don’t bear explaining at this juncture, I just moved my office. Not far, mind you, just to a different room in the house. But every move requires, well, actually moving things and actually moving things requires picking each individual article up, moving it, and figuring out where they’re going to go again [...]
Two days after the Belovedary and I returned from our sojourn to visit family in California, I missed a step while exiting a coffee shop and went kersplat on the pavement. The above is a visual representation of what going kersplat on the pavement did to my right knee. As a result, I’m spending my [...]
A couple of days ago, lamenting the lack of freezer space, it occurred to me that if you haven’t got any freezer space, it might just could possibly be that you have too much uneaten stuff in your freezer. So, while I rolled out graham cracker dough, I had the Belovedary root through the freezer [...]
Does this count as regifting? Or just as being resourceful? It came to me this morning while I was rolling out dough for Nancy Silverton’s awesomesauce graham cracker recipe (make them with whole wheat pastry flour!) that I had a sizeable two year old bottle of homemade limoncello in the cupboard and that at the [...]
A few years ago, a visiting friend’s toddler, in mid-meltdown, was mollified by being offered the chance to sit in the Princess Chair at my kitchen table. This is not, I hasten to clarify, something that anyone would readily identify as being particularly princessy. It is not sparkly or pink or anything, or even particularly [...]