Sadie's Old House

We are in the middle of a melting ice storm and it's snowing with a refreeze warning tonight. Our electricity shut off last night, after midnight; but was magically restored when I woke up mid-morning. Whew! As it turns out...

“To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” - Hamlet It is Friday the Thirteenth, of January 2023, and nothing is really happening....

I hope I do better at updating my blog in 2023! The last time I posted, I had gone missing for six weeks. This time I took off the entire season of Autumn! I really wish I could share some...

Egads! Here I am a month after I first went missing for six weeks. Silly Segue: Can you tell I am a child of the Sunday funnies? GADZOOKS! No, I wasn't abducted by aliens (you do know I am KIDDING,...

It's been over six weeks since my last post. I cannot readily account for that time, except to wonder if perhaps I was abducted by aliens. Similarly, the recent tasks commanded by Sadie, are ones that I would like to...

We started Spring 2022, sprinting out of the gate... and that was at least ten nursery trips ago. By early Summer, we've gone completely insane and now live in a giant terrarium! 🤪 I think it was a Saturday afternoon...

My ex-husband, and father of my son, Clay Jones, won the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Cartoon Award yesterday! This prestigious award is sometimes referred to as the "poor man's Pulitzer" and is the achievement of a lifetime. Kenny...

This blog entry will stray from the home restoration and decoration content that normally fills its pages. I'm working on a weekend presentation right now, so I simply don't have time to take on anything "house" this week, and still...

Last week I bought an old, burled walnut wardrobe off Facebook Marketplace. It replaces the very dark, sawdust-and-glue armoire, that stood there previously. I love how the lighter wood of my new/old wardrobe helps to brighten up the room! Everything...

Right before Christmas, we returned the original dining room, from a bedroom, back into a dining room. There was a lot of work (and hip surgeries) to get through before this event, but I pre-empted everything and ordered a smaller...