More before and after

From the kitchen looking to the dining room and master bedroom.




Standing by the bay window looking toward the kitchen.




In the dining room looking towards the front door.

Rags

So for some reason I read the instructions before I start painting these cabinet doors in my basement:

3. Stir Minwax fast-drying polyurethane before and during use to prevent settling on the bottom of the can. Stir in such a way as to rotate the product from the bottom to the top of the can. NEVER SHAKE.
4. Apply a THIN coat of Minwax fast-drying polyurethane using a high-quality natural bristle or foam brush...

Oh for Ah Pook’s sake! I say with rising irritation. I shake the can vigorously for about fifteen seconds before sopping it on with a sock from the rag box.

(OK, not bad, lets she how she does going to German, then French, then Italian, then back into English on the babel fish translator)

For a reason I read if, before that beginnings to paint the instructions these doors of scato it in my wine cellar:

3. to churn Minwax disidratatori to high polyurethane speed and during I use it to decide to prevent on under of the box it churns in such a way you turns the product of under to the advanced surface of the box it. NEVER JOLT.
4, turns the THIN layer of the Minwax a disidratatore to high speed of the polyurethane with one natural silk or rubber brush foam of great quality...

to OH - for ampèreheure Pooks reason! I say with an inflammation that it increases. I to it with a sock of the rag box strongly churn the box it for approximately fifteen second ones, before that it sopping.

Hooks and bullets

Upstairs in the grad student cubicles at the department of fish and wildlife, or as I call it, the department of hunting and fishing, or, as someone else on campus once referred to it, the department of Hooks and Bullets, I notice above one student's desk (among the many photos of young men in camo displaying turkey fans and truckbeds spilling over with limp duck bodies and a black labrador retriever happily and softly holding a limp duck body in his mouth) a photograph of a fully assembled skeleton of a deer, maybe eight or ten point, I can't recall. That was a class project my senior year at Louisiana Tech, I heard a voice say, we stayed up late drinking beer, trying to put that thing together, and I put the ribs on backwards, I put them on this way (making a curving gesture across his chest) instead of this way. You dumbass, they said, you put the ribs on backwards. We used special little drill bits and little screws that taxidermists use, and wire to hold it together. I would like to try to draw that thing, I said.

Gosh darn did it

This morning, as I was brushing my teeth, I felt my head brush the ceiling. “Dagnabbit!” I foamed, “I did it again! I wanted to buy anti-cavity toothpaste, but instead got anti-gravity toothpaste!”
“Watch your language!” grunted mother, grabbing my foot. “I’m going to wash your mouth out with soap!”

Here it is again after shooting it through three languages on the babel fish translation website:

Provided that I have arranged my teeth, ecew'risa this morning, the cover in my main brush. "Dagnabbit! This I have foamed, "I have repeated! I wanted to buy a antisecteur in Zahnpasta I have that nevertheless received antj' the Antigravitationszahnpasta! "" you install your language! in that swirls mother, you want it says with regard to the leg. "I will wash abroad your opening with the soap!

War...children...

You don't want to hear about what I did today. Check out Keith Urban and Alicia Keys at Live Earth, this smokes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u2HPbPy0wk
Edit: Don't bother pasting that url, it is bad. Search Keith Urban and Alicia Keys on youtube. Or patti smith gloria. Or kittens fall in dishwater...Dog on skateboard...

Holiday

I have been on Holiday in Oak Island this past week. I return to Mississippi tomorrow. I have been coming to this same spot every fourth of July for the past fourteen years or so and not much has changed. All the neices and nephews are teenagers now, and our little crowd has increased in number somewhat, but mostly everything is as it has always been. Now there is a grocery store on the Island, I guess that makes a difference. Took some kayaks up Davis Creek with the wife and kids this morning. Quite a workout. Pretty hot today. Maybe I'll go hit the beach one last time. Maybe I'll take a nap.

To the future and beyond

Wish I had something else to tell you other than what is going on at the Montgomery Street house. I wonder if Montgomery street goes to Montgomery. I don't think so. We hired somebody to refinish the floors, he worked pretty hard at it for two days then disappeared. I am in the process of stripping wallpaper in the bathroom. Honestly wish I could put out something more exciting than that. Just move on, people, nothing to see here. Go to thesmokinggun.com and see what Paris Hilton left in Amsterdam for the hotel maid.