January 16, 2009
Nice chair, right?
I found the frame on the street; it was painted a hideous brown over layers and layers of various other colors. It was upholstered with something equally ugly. I took FIVE layers of upholstery and dusty old padding off it. It was like unwrapping a mummy.
Greg sanded the frame and I painted it (with paint found on the street). Greg did the upholstery using a pillowcase we already had and some new strapping. It worked out!
I heart free stuff!
Greg sanded the frame and I painted it (with paint found on the street). Greg did the upholstery using a pillowcase we already had and some new strapping. It worked out!
I heart free stuff!
Two things I like to look at while I work
On my bulletin board.
I forget where I picked up the postcard—at some flea market I think. The Charlie Brown/Van Gogh drawing by Kim Scafuro illustrated a review of Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (2007), by David Michaelis, in the New York Times (I read the book - it's great).
January 14, 2009
hee hee hee
On January 10 at 02:59:36 PM someone Googled "dynavent wall furnaces". . . and ended up here.
Found, by Jem
Another artwork saved from destruction. I found this down the street on trash night.
Way to go, Jem! Good work.
Way to go, Jem! Good work.
January 13, 2009
Wow!
This is a great blog!
I especially like The Happy Little Handsaw.
Thanks, Ron, for posting this on facebook!
I especially like The Happy Little Handsaw.
Thanks, Ron, for posting this on facebook!
January 12, 2009
Found: a giant tooth!
Greg picked this up from a rocky riverbank when we were in Quebec last summer, and he gave it me.
It obviously belonged to a plant eater. Greg thinks a moose or bovine (is bovine a noun?).
The tooth is stained with red a bit because I was playing tricks with it on Halloween:
"OH GOD!!" [hand to bloodied mouth]
"ACK!!" [spits blood into palm onto giant tooth hidden there]
"MY TOOTH!!" [displaying giant bloody tooth]
It obviously belonged to a plant eater. Greg thinks a moose or bovine (is bovine a noun?).
The tooth is stained with red a bit because I was playing tricks with it on Halloween:
"OH GOD!!" [hand to bloodied mouth]
"ACK!!" [spits blood into palm onto giant tooth hidden there]
"MY TOOTH!!" [displaying giant bloody tooth]
Dinner and Scrabble
I got dinner handed to me, then I got my ass handed to me.
Although Greg's victory depended on my admission of "depender" (curses!).
Although Greg's victory depended on my admission of "depender" (curses!).
January 11, 2009
Beloved animal story
A fox named Star and the boy who hunts him.
I think Haunt Fox was my father's when he was a boy; I see it came from East Williston, New York. I recently reread it—and I still love it.
I think Haunt Fox was my father's when he was a boy; I see it came from East Williston, New York. I recently reread it—and I still love it.
January 10, 2009
Getting a little exotic
Thirsty Turtle restaurant, Best Western Hotel, Richmond, British Columbia.
Dudes you really need to get out more. Chicken pot pie is not even a LITTLE exotic.
Dudes you really need to get out more. Chicken pot pie is not even a LITTLE exotic.
January 8, 2009
The other windowsill
I found this mug (a gift for Greg) in a "free" box:
Awesome.
Remember those herb seeds I found a while ago? I am trying to grow them. Nothing is happening:
And I picked up this piece of marble with metal fittings on a beach in Quebec:
It was some kind of switch, I think.
I like.
Awesome.
Remember those herb seeds I found a while ago? I am trying to grow them. Nothing is happening:
And I picked up this piece of marble with metal fittings on a beach in Quebec:
It was some kind of switch, I think.
I like.
Christmas cactus
Smuggled into Brooklyn from Canada (I wrapped it in like five feet of toilet paper):
Nice, right? A gift from Greg's brother Jim and his husband, Trevor.
I was going to crop this picture but then I decided I liked how you can just see the spines of the other cactus sticking into the image on the right.
Nice, right? A gift from Greg's brother Jim and his husband, Trevor.
I was going to crop this picture but then I decided I liked how you can just see the spines of the other cactus sticking into the image on the right.
January 7, 2009
Last night...
...I finished my new iPod holder.
Yay for Patons Canadiana knitting worsted!
UPDATE: I think I lost this! Sad. But now I get to make a new one!
Yay for Patons Canadiana knitting worsted!
UPDATE: I think I lost this! Sad. But now I get to make a new one!
January 6, 2009
Who is this...
...behind Greg's hair, on the left?
He is shaking hands with the owner of Olympia Restaurant on Denman Street in Vancouver. FAMOUS!
He is shaking hands with the owner of Olympia Restaurant on Denman Street in Vancouver. FAMOUS!
Victoria coffee shops
We were going to go here...
...but then we thought, what the hell—let's enjoy ourselves!
So we went down the street to this place:
'Twas very pleasurable.
(That stuff in the middle is phytoplankton, to cure our colds.)
...but then we thought, what the hell—let's enjoy ourselves!
So we went down the street to this place:
'Twas very pleasurable.
(That stuff in the middle is phytoplankton, to cure our colds.)
January 4, 2009
Mexican squirrels
Our friend Claudine recently returned from Mexico with these pictures of the squirrels of that land:
Curious!
Curious!
West coast squirrel
Greg and I came across this little guy at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. You can imagine how excited we were.
Between us we took like 75 pictures of it.
Between us we took like 75 pictures of it.
Enigma
Greg and I purchased this hand-embroidered tea towel at Value Village in Vancouver.
We do not understand it.
We do not understand it.
Saint Vincent de Paul
I found these placemats and napkins in his thrift shop in Vancouver:
Can anyone identify the double-P (or PD) logo?
Can anyone identify the double-P (or PD) logo?
We made it home!
The squirrel greeted us by eating a piece of bread on top of his nest:
Thanks buddy. We are glad to see you too.
Thanks buddy. We are glad to see you too.
Beach finds
Blue glass:
Sea dime:
Some nice stones, nicely arranged:
Piece of a super day-glo buoy:
Greg conquered this barrel:
It has barnacles and stuff on it!
Must have been in the sea for a while. I wonder what it contained. It's empty now.
Clear glass:
Driftwood for our wood collection:
An oyster shell!
Magnificent.
Sea dime:
Some nice stones, nicely arranged:
Piece of a super day-glo buoy:
Greg conquered this barrel:
It has barnacles and stuff on it!
Must have been in the sea for a while. I wonder what it contained. It's empty now.
Clear glass:
Driftwood for our wood collection:
An oyster shell!
Magnificent.
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