Last week was kind of like National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation: almost hilariously disastrous. Nothing burned down, but we did end up spending four days and $1,000 in car repairs (not including the car battery that died Saturday afternoon), dealing with an unrelated medical emergency and trying to support friends through varying degrees of emotional andRead more
Folks who were raised during the Great Depression sometimes have habits that infuriate their Baby Boomer children. Habits like saving gobs of plastic bags in a drawer or plastic sour cream containers. Or keeping random old mucky screws in jars. The fact is, I understand these habits. We save plastic grocery store bags and reuseRead more
I’m cleaning the second piece of furniture I bought this weekend and I was just reminded of something I learned when I took my first refinishing class about ten years ago. Today I noticed that the mineral oil component of my mineral oil/mineral spirits blend was not sinking into the top of this dresser. SoRead more