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Gardens Gone Wild!

Gardens Gone Wild! Originally uploaded by Kate O’ Our garden has gone almost all summer without maintenance (darn my pesky thyroid), and it really shows. We haven’t been too concerned about it, figuring my health us more important than a

Kate ONeill October 5, 2008 Germantown & North End, Home Improvement, Life at Home, Nashville, The Garden No Comments Read more

We’re well preserved!

We’re well preserved! Originally uploaded by Kate O’ (Thanks to Busy Mom for the subject line. 🙂 ) Not sure why this didn’t post to my blog when I posted it to flickr. That whole “post to flickr and your

Kate ONeill May 31, 2008 Home Improvement, Karsten, Life at Home, Nashville 3 Comments Read more

The fieldstone effect

Detail of front walkway at gate, originally uploaded by Kate O’. One of the interesting things about getting deep into any major project, like renovating a house and yard, is that new metaphors sometimes emerge throughout the process. For me,

Kate ONeill February 9, 2008February 5, 2015 Home Improvement, Introspection, Life at Home, The Garden 1 Comment Read more

How about a REALLY happy new year?

I thought about writing a year-end update yesterday, but the truth is, not all that much of note happened. And that’s a pretty good thing, as it turns out, because I was also thinking yesterday about how I’m feeling more

Kate ONeill January 1, 2008February 5, 2015 Home Improvement, Introspection, Karsten, Status Reports, Work, Writing Songs 1 Comment Read more

Furnace not blowing heat, but will blow cool?

At some point today, the furnace stopped coming on periodically to blow heat, even though the house was noticeably cooling off. After a few hours, we tried switching the setting on the thermostat from “Auto” to “Fan,” and air did

Kate ONeill December 1, 2007 Home Improvement 8 Comments Read more

Picked a fine time to leave me

I keep forgetting to mention that the guy who’s painting the tippy-top of the front porch (which I’m thrilled Karsten isn’t going to do himself) is the son of the guy who wrote (co-wrote?) “Lucille.” Now, come on. How Nashvegas

Kate ONeill June 13, 2007 Home Improvement, Karsten, Mostly For Fun, Songwriters & Musicians 5 Comments Read more

Paging Dr. Jae…

Would you be more inclined to translate “little disaster” as “kleine Katastophe” or “Katastrophchen,” since our intent is to use it as an affectionate term (as in “Unsere kleine Katastrophe” oder “Unser Katastrophchen”)? Or is there a better translation altogether?

Kate ONeill May 14, 2007 Home Improvement, Language & Linguistics, Silliness 8 Comments Read more

Karsten needs this

I need to find a way to get one of these for Karsten.

Kate ONeill May 4, 2007February 6, 2015 Home Improvement, Karsten, Mostly For Fun 12 Comments Read more

I can’t think of a subject stupid enough

I backed out of the backyard into the alley this morning — naturally, we’re parking out back these days — and was detoured when I got to the end of the alley by Morgan Park Place construction blocking my normal

Kate ONeill April 26, 2007 Crime, Germantown & North End, Home Improvement, Karsten, The Garden 17 Comments Read more

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