Selling and buying

We’re moving. At least, our house is going on the market in the next few days and we’re probably going to make an offer on a house this week – a cute Spanish Colonial Revival bungalow in east Hermosa Beach. Killer ocean view from the deck (and it...

Happy 4th of July!

Dave and I did a 5k (Village Runner in Redondo Beach) this morning. I did it about 3 minutes faster than the 5k in the tri — no surprise there — and ran a lot more of it than walked. Here’s a pic of the finished bookcase. Knitting books are the two...

Week’s Training

Training is going well. I may add on the Solana Beach Sprint the end of this month. The long bike ride didn’t happen — we painted the new bookcase/window seat all day Wednesday. The joys of home ownership! See Sunset Cat for a more complete description. We...

Storage for Stash

Dave & I had a local carpenter build us bookcases & a window seat/chest around our dining room window. Guess what the window seat will store? yes! stash overflow from my cedar chest. And my knitting library will take up at least one of those shelves....

Can You Tell When I’ve Had Days Off?

Yep, I made progress on my knitting, I puttered around the house and garden, I surfed the internet and made updates to my webpage. I drank tea, read a variety of books, and walked the dog. (I often declutter as well. Our house is quite small and if something new comes...

Personal Mud Slides

Dave is getting better. Tonka came home last night. And our two next door neighbors’ retaining walls failed at 3 a.m. during the big thunderstorm sending mud, fence and miscellaneous material hurtling at their houses — luckily not damaging their houses, or...