A big shady tree can make a huge difference in cooling bills over a summer. A new neighbor was convinced by an itinerant tree cutter that the two huge trees on the west side of their house were a threat, so she agreed to have 70% of her summer cooling system knocked down. She moved in in the spring. The formerly serene lawn was scorched by September.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jan 26, 2015 7:57:08 am PST #17063 of 30000
brillig
JZ - Jan 26, 2015 8:02:33 am PST #17064 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Congratulations, flea! That house looks absolutely gorgeous.
You have a solarium! SO FREAKING COOL.
It looks a lot like my brother's bungalow in Portland, OR (including the dining room wallpaper, which I helped him strip down to the surprisingly lovely cream plaster walls on a visit up there long ago). He did a ton of the repair and restoration work himself and still has lots of bungalow-DIY-repair-tutorial websites bookmarked (learned how to disassemble, restring, and reassemble the window frames with the rope pulleys hidden inside, and they still work perfectly more than a decade after repair), so if you'd like any links he'd be happy to pass them along.
Atropa - Jan 26, 2015 8:07:51 am PST #17065 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Flea, what a great house!
I had a manager who, I'm pretty sure, set me up to fail a lot. She did this to a number of people (I think she wanted to be seen as "saving" the department by rescuing it from our "mistakes")
I didn't know you worked for my last boss! Or else people like that are legion in management positions, and we should perhaps create poppets of them to stab with pins.
According to my BigBoss, everyone I met at the Copenhagen office thinks I'm awesome and great at my job. Also, they really want me to move there.
Calli - Jan 26, 2015 8:09:38 am PST #17066 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
How lovely, flea! I especially like that front porch.
-t - Jan 26, 2015 8:10:40 am PST #17067 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
everyone I met at the Copenhagen office thinks I'm awesome and great at my job. Also, they really want me to move there.
Of course they do.
sumi - Jan 26, 2015 8:10:50 am PST #17068 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Flea, that house is gorgeous!!! Congratulations!!
ION, I went to the podiatrist today and he thinks that with new orthotics I won't need to wear a brace!
Also - I should never be barefoot.. ., i.e., wear clogs indoors.
But no brace!!!
sj - Jan 26, 2015 8:11:35 am PST #17069 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
everyone I met at the Copenhagen office thinks I'm awesome and great at my job. Also, they really want me to move there.
This is not at all surprising.
Steph L. - Jan 26, 2015 8:11:49 am PST #17070 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
sumi, that's great news!
Atropa - Jan 26, 2015 8:14:01 am PST #17071 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It's a nice idea to idly contemplate. But there's the reality of our life in Seattle: Dad is here, a bunch of our close friends, my goddaughters. Plus the idea of packing up ALL OF OUR STUFF and doing a cross-continental move is terrifying to think of.
But still, Copenhagen was pretty nice. It looks like I'll be headed back there in June.
JZ - Jan 26, 2015 8:15:20 am PST #17072 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Braceless sumi is excellent news! Many congrats!
Management-by-sabotage, and its subset New-management-establishing-itself-by-shitting-all-over-everyone-who's-already-there, is grimly familiar to way too many of us. Enough so that I personally can't even construct a response, just nod and shudder and rock back and forth. But, holy crap, am I delighted that Jilli is loved and appreciated now! So long overdue, so incredibly well deserved!