Archive for January, 2008

Strategy Meeting: Keeping the Cottage Warm

argh! me fireback be hot!
Yes. It’s still cold. Figuring out ways to stay warm around the house given one small centralized heat source is my current raison d’etre. Okay, so maybe none of these ideas come as suprises to you. Maybe this whole post is just a big ole 80s-style “no duh” moment.?If not though, [...]

Welcome one and all!

mat by creare imports
We’ve kinda been on the lookout for a welcome mat for a pretty long time. We didn’t want anything fancy — just something sort of unique and friendly. While we’ve seen a few cool ones, by and large the mats we’ve come across fall into one of three genres that disqualify them: [...]

What every cottage needs: Howard Jones

howard jones
That’s right. From the 80s. What is lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ve anyway? That guy.  Oh my god, when I was a kid I l.o.v.e. loved him. He rocked the sweetest mullhawk on the Dream into Action tour. But that was then and this is now and the 52-year-old Howard is doing an acoustic tour that is freakin kick-ass.
Now while [...]

Embrace Your Inner Old Man Potter

electric lap blanket
It’s freezing here. It’s winter and it’s freezing. And, oh yeah, we live in an 86-year-old house—a house built before insulation was the norm. Also, single-paned windows. So yeah. Cold.
Now, I work from home, but that doesn’t mean I crank the heat all day. In fact, we turn the heat OFF during the [...]

Like college without the extra 15lbs

cereal dispenser
One day, Beth was reminiscing about how great it was to walk into the college cafeteria and dispense yourself breakfast from any of the12 cereal varieties featured in the built-in dispensers. Man, that REALLY was awesome. Only slightly less awesome than having chicken fingers and soft serve ice cream for dinner.
As this hearkening back to the [...]