Adventures at The Bunny Manse

  Get you a man who, when he gets home from rehab and sees the ice cream parlour chairs you bought off an artist downsizing her studio while he was in rehab and says, huh, I guess chairs make you happy.  They DO make me happy. Madeline and I washed and scrubbed and primed and painted them while Harris was away in '16. They...lasted a season before the painted started peeling off in sheets. Harris insisted for all of 2017 that he would have nothing to do with those chairs thankyouverymuch.  Around 2017-2018 I bought vinyl and cushioning when Hancoks was liquidated by vultures. It sat in the closet and the chairs sat outside, still peeling paint for another year. We have a big house and lots of stuff going on.  Until, one day driving back from the thrift store, I saw them. The most beautiful chairs you've ever seen just sitting covered in 40 years of rust and plant life on the side of the road. I told Harris over dinner about them. He counted to ...

Here we are at the end of summer. We've been thrifting, selling, placing for weeks now. Probably a truckload still to the dump, another to the thrift, and random things we're on the lookout for. Some recents include... Push button switches Transoms The upstairs starting to look finished. Our Ringside painting from Bruce Mitchell now hung in place of safe lighting and prominence.  Our little upstairs nook. We can read there. No it's not Africa.  And when we're not housing, I'm making a Bat Mobile for my little gothlings. Purple and Red hot air balloon currently drying.  Someone completed their first year. Is walking, babbling, and giggling all day.  Someone else started first grade...  Did you wonder if I could find a post office? I always find post offices. This may be the making of a great road trip one day.  Sure - we have a couple of hours. Let's go to Mt. Rainier and ...

 What a busy weekend! Someone lost a second tooth Sunday morning!         we heavily encouraged the pulling of said tooth as it was rotating all around and just hanging out in the spot. After about half an hour, Harris handed her a tissue and we got her to pull it out on her own. Afterwards we talked about whether it was scarier or actually as painful as she was making it out to be. She agreed that it was fear more than pain and that now it was out, she was proud of herself.   Not as proud as Mommy and Daddy sweetheart.   Our annual selfie watching fireworks outside of the Durham Bulls stadium. This time we perched at Dillard and Pettigrew to try a new view.         We also went blueberry picking on Saturday. We managed to weigh 8 lbs of sweet organic rabbit eye blueberries at the end. Pretty sure the blond ate a pound while we were picking.  This should be enough to ...

 We have no AC. Have I mentioned that?   Jeffery Harris realized that he has no job and classes don't start for another few days. Instead of sitting in a loud hot house all day why not take off with Madeline Harris and go to the beach.   Under the deck at Aunt Ellie and Uncle Dave's house in Southern Shores just back from the beach with her favorite shell.   Spring is in Durham working...and blogging...and catching up on bad reality tv.  

12-13 weeks until baby _________ Renee Carpenter arrives. Names currently in the running Margot Frances Matilda Joyce Eleanor Ruth and probably several others I'm currently forgetting. Harris and Madeline have also probably already nixed some of those ideas and I've forgotten that as well. Our asbestos is abated, now just have to have the air test performed to make sure they got it all. Electrical work will start on the 27th. We're upgrading the service from the street to 400 amp and will also fix a couple of random things that were...strange choices someone else made at some point in time. Plaster continues apace. The living room and entryway/staircase should be finished by the end of next week. The downstairs bath - we're waiting for tile to arrive then have to find someone to install it. The living room floor still has to be addressed, but that can't happen until all of the plaster work is fiinshed in there. Ben is working on fixing he orig...