Breakfast for Dinner

Holland and I decided to finally make use the our wonderful farmer's market eggs and goat cheese that have been sitting in the fridge for a couple of weeks now. I decided to make a whole mess 'a grits to go with them. It was the first time I'd had grits in months - I stood over the pot and ate it off the wooden spoon.


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Heart!

This picture is so Holland.

Project Box Spring

So, to make a long story short, I was super excited to move into my new house because now I can have a real guest room! I assumed I could put the extra bed into a small bedroom that is down in the finished basement, where there is also a laundry room. It was only AFTER I signed the lease that I discovered what I now know to be a common problem in old Salt Lake City houses: you can't fit a box spring into the basement. The stairwell is just slightly too short. I also can't fit the other extra furniture that I thought I could down there because the doors leading into the basement rooms are too small but that is another story.

To make things even more stressful, prior to realizing that the box spring wouldn't fit, I offered the guest room for the next month to a friend from Mississippi who is a fourth year medical student and coming to do a visiting rotation here.

Holland, being the resourceful person he is, found an online tutorial on how one can basically disassemble and then reassemble a box spring. The following are pictures chronicling this project.

Step one (which actually took the longest): remove all staples holding the dust cover and padding to half of the box spring.


And here is the box spring folded up on itself. At this point I'm hoping it will work but also thinking of how we'll just end up with a mangled heap of wood and wire if it doesn't.



It fit down the stairs and through the doors! Here is Holland looking very macho, beginning the reassembly process.

Plate holding the severed ends of wood together. Little piece of metal tubing holding the cut thick wire together...with a little electrical tape for good measure (actually just to keep the metal joining piece from sliding around).


Look closely at Holland's thumb and you will see his bright blue stitches from last weekend. You will be happy to know that it is healing nicely and the stitches can come out tomorrow. Even better, his fingers survived this project intact! Which is miraculous since it involved a staple gun.


We stapled the fabric parts back on. Holland was excited that he got to buy a staple gun for this but rued having not bought the pneumatic one that requires an air compressor, instead of the simpler spring-loaded one that he does now have. I, personally, was very happy he didn't get the pneumatic one.



It worked! Now my friend has a bed.

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Comcast

Waiting to turn in my cable and internet boxes so that they'll cancel my account. So that I can move on to something much less expensive.

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Ta-da!

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Canning tomatoes

Isn't this a great picture? Holland saw a big box of tomatoes on sale for $12 at the farmers market and couldn't help himself. He was so excited at the prospect of having jars of home-canned tomatoes all winter.


Aw, what a great picture. Unfortunately, things did not quite follow the planned trajectory for Holland's finger.


This is our friend Jay very kindly stitching up Holland's finger in his backyard. When it happened, I had to sit with my head between my knees to keep from fainting because I thought Holland had cut his thumb off, which he did not but he came close. It's really different when the blood belongs to someone you know!

We did eventually manage to get the tomatoes canned and they are lovely. Pictures to come.

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Does anyone know what this kitchen utensil is?

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