Category Archives: Maintaining the House

A Lost Day

Posted on August 4, 2024 by daisypeasblossom

I am having a Lost Day. I lost sleep because it got too cold for my fan last night. I’ve lost a bag of glass bottles. (I know I had it yesterday.) I’ve lost my phone. (Yes, I had it … Continue reading →

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Building a Catio

Posted on August 3, 2024 by daisypeasblossom

Spring and summer bring time for outdoor work. This year, in addition to spending my creative energies on playing building games, I’m doing some real building. I have 16 cats of various ages and mixed genders in an old 1980s … Continue reading →

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New Garden Wagon

Posted on March 4, 2024 by daisypeasblossom

I’m excited! My new garden wagon with no-pop tires was delivered today, two days earlier than originally promised. This will make garden clean up and planting so much easier, as well as moving concrete blocks to work on the catio/doggio. … Continue reading →

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Projects for Improvement

Posted on January 17, 2024 by daisypeasblossom

Another year older, not necessarily better. I thought 2023 was one of my worst years for writing production, until I tried a mini-class in Rescue Time. I subscribed to the application in either late 2019 or early 2020, so I … Continue reading →

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Writer’s Block

Posted on May 15, 2013 by daisypeasblossom

Spring is here, and with it comes my usual restless desire for “new”, “different”, and “change”. Once that meant running away from the house and my grandmother to play in the woods, where I built tree houses, swung on grapevines and … Continue reading →

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Flotsam

Posted on January 25, 2012 by daisypeasblossom

Change, according to many philosophers and creeds, is the only constant, the one thing we can absolutely count upon to happen. Sometimes the changes are good, other times they erode, irritate, anger and cause pain. We are both the changed and the … Continue reading →

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Going with the Flow — Surfing the Changes

Posted on December 19, 2011 by daisypeasblossom

Gutting the house in preparation for new wiring. New flooring has been laid after removal of asbestos tile.

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