We were cooking in the kitchen the other night and had the overhead lights on, when suddenly someone noticed that there were swarms – and I mean SWARMS – of tiny flies hovering around the lights. Then we noticed they were all over the cupboards, those little black dots, and we started a giant game [...]
Archive for the ‘The Inexplicable’ Category
Lord of the Flies
Posted in Current Affairs, The Inexplicable, Wildlife on September 27, 2011 |
Painting Adventures
Posted in Before & After, I Need a Nap, The Inexplicable on September 7, 2011 |
The redoing of renos continues. We painted this shiny bright blue shelf in the Yoda Room the other day (photo from when we first toured the house). But after sanding and priming it, somehow the paint still isn’t sticking. Our best guess is that the caulk between the shelf and the wall isn’t a paintable [...]
How to Install a Ceiling Register
Posted in Current Affairs, The Inexplicable on August 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last year, when I painted the grid of the suspended ceiling from brown to white so it would match the tiles, I took down the ceiling registers, which were half falling out anyway. I’m embarrassed to admit that it’s only now that I’m getting around to trying to figure out how to put them back [...]
Attack of the Spiders
Posted in Leave It Alone, The Inexplicable, Wildlife on August 23, 2011 |
The last couple of weeks, we’ve had a bunch of big spiders running around, in spite of our spider traps. We particularly notice them downstairs in the TV room, where there must be some kind of spider continental divide that they cross as initiation or something. We’ll be watching a movie, and suddenly a big [...]
Meeting the Currant Worm (Maybe)
Posted in Current Affairs, Food, The Inexplicable, Yum on August 3, 2011 |
Last week, I picked 5 cups of black currants off the currant bush at the upper pond. Then I sorted through them for an hour and a half, prying off all the tiny stems. And only THEN did I notice that there were a couple of teeny white worms in the berries, some crawling around [...]
Found in the Garden
Posted in Garden, I Can't Eat This, The Inexplicable on July 4, 2011 |
I haven’t found things in the garden for awhile now, but came across this little guy under a plant on the weekend: He’s extra fabulous, by the way, because he has dirty brains:
Piggy
Posted in Current Affairs, Garden, The Inexplicable on April 7, 2011 |
Piggy, former known as the stone patio, became Piggy when a guest who shall remain unnamed said, while looking down on the garden from the house, “Hey, that patio looks like a pig.” And forever more, all any of us can see when we look down at the patio, is Piggy. In this photo you [...]
Public Service Announcement
Posted in Current Affairs, The Inexplicable on March 11, 2011 |
It has recently come to my attention that WordPress, which is the free blogging platform behind 963, is now putting ads on everybody’s blogs. None of that ad revenue comes to the blogger, and here at 963 we haven’t approved any of those ads – but they don’t ask us if we approve either, and [...]
Christmas at 963: ‘Tis the Season
Posted in Holidays, The Inexplicable on December 21, 2010 |
…to be jolly in Grinch slippers.
Fortune Cookie
Posted in Current Affairs, Red, The Inexplicable on November 30, 2010 |
