Found: the most awesome thing ever!

Omg check out this turquoise trolley! In front of a house on Kingsland Avenue.

Big wheels, rolls good, shelves, sturdy, INCREDIBLE!













I saw it there one morning as I biked to work, and it was still there when I came home that evening. I told Greg about it and tried to convince him that we should go get it that night, but he wasn't having it (it was eleven o'clock).

On my way to work in the morning I saw it was STILL THERE! We walked over that night and Greg agreed it was awesome. But we got freaked out—was it trash, or just hanging out in front of the house? There is a bad vibe on that block and we were kinda afraid of rubbing anyone the wrong way.

But it was still there the NEXT day (some people don't know treasure when they see it!), the day before yesterday, so that night we grabbed it and rolled it home. No one seemed to care.

It weighs, like, 150 pounds, so we were having a bit of a "tough time" getting it up the stairs in our building. Luckily the landlady's husband came out, and he let us put it in the garage.

It's going to Greg's new studio!

PERFECT!

My new thing

Skipping!



It's hard! Especially for someone who trips on her feet just doing regular stuff.

Greg bought me this awesome wood-n-leather number. EVERLAST, yeah!

Found!

These were in a styrofoam cooler on the sidewalk. I am reading Number the Stars right now. Virginia Woolf is next.

(Also: check out our new rug! [not found on sidewalk {unlike our last one}])

Mmmmm

Grainy picture of last night's oysters.

Elevator mystery

Who put that there!

I'd just like to mention

That on September 12 someone typed "skorl" in a Google search window. And found me (second on the list)!

Good search term, whoever!

HOLY MOLY!

Hobo Soup! Invented by my friend Sam's uncle!

(Hmm. I can't quite tell what kind of pants that hobo is wearing.)

Whimper

Too cute. My eyes hurt!



Once again Fine Little Shop blows my mind.

Best picture book spread ever?

From I Know a Lot of Things, by Ann and Paul Rand
Harcourt, Brace & World (1956)

Or this?



From Listen! Listen!, by Ann and Paul Rand
Harcourt, Brace & World (1970)

I can't decide.

(Thanks Sam!)

Chinatown

I tossed and turned all night. I BLAME THE MOON CAKE!

Found!

In the dryer.





It's like the casting of a really weird owl.

Greg found a studio (FINALLY)!

Ya-a-a-a-y! Celebratory cocktails!



Bourbon and soda for Greg.



Gin, lime juice, simple syrup, and soda for Becky!

"To Greg! And his new printmaking studio!" S-s-s-sip. AAAH!

First place

World's cutest ’tato.

Low-res

No, not the picture.






















The sign!

Weird.

You know what's annoying?

Your landlady's husband sitting on the patio on top of their garage, listening to music. Without a shirt on. Um, like fifteen feet from your kitchen window! Midday on Sunday!



Augh.

It's funny

But of all my shirts, these two are my favorites.



This is a Girl Guides t-shirt cut into a tank top.






















This I bought from Value Village a long, long time ago. It fits SO PERFECTLY.

I think I'll have these for the rest of my life.

Found this weekend!

Perhaps the worst book ever written (yes, I read it).

Whoa

A pet tiger! A skinny one.

If you love someone

Say it with flowers.

Oh no!

Little bird, what are you doing hopping around in the lobby of Chelsea Market?



You are very small and the people are very big.

I don't think you can fly.



You're just a baby who needs a mother.







Good luck little bird.

:(

No squirrels (or skorls) at the new apartment.

I MISS THEM!

Will someone please bring me this lunch?

Now?

Thanks Hello Sandwich!

Found!

A dirty old flowered tin!





It was on the sidewalk in a recycling bag with the Skippy jar and the Tupperware bowls.

Pu-u-u-u-re gold!

Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Possible to travel back in time to early August?

Last night

The prospect of laundry and grocery shopping was making us cranky and depressed, so we said fuck it and went for a run then watched tennis, drank wine, and played Scrabble (well, a game like Scrabble).



Much more satisfactory.

Whales and Whaling

Greg pointed out that I didn't include any actual pictures of flensing.

So here you go:





Flensing!

(Hey, remember that Judy Blume book Blubber?)

Dancing in the Dark

If you want to read a book about being beautiful, married, thirty-two, and living in New York in the 1980s, this is the one.






















It's sort of a sister to Bright Lights Big City.

I found this on the street a while back and just read it for a second time.

Finished!

Chapeau pour un bébé.

Front:



Back:



Side:



Magnifique, non?

Made with yard sale yarn.

It's true

Speaking of trivets, I would like to mention that I sold that crocheted grape number on Etsy for $12 (the first and only item I have sold there).

Yup, that's a 500 percent profit, baby!

New book!

Our second "real book" about the ocean.




































































As Greg was looking at this book for the first time a few days ago, from the other room I heard him exclaim, "OOOOH! Flensing!!"

Hee hee.