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Tough Kitty Puffs: Our new project - a vardo!
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Tuesday, July 07, 2015. Our new project - a vardo! We really loved visiting Yosemite. Hard to believe some place that beautiful and breathtaking is so close to the busy city we live in - we're so fortunate! Every curve in the road gave us a new view of something incredibly stunning:. The hard part for us was driving back to our hotel each evening - it's quite pricey to stay in the park hotels, and any hotels nearby are also really expensive, although we wish we had been able to get a room close! We also ...
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Tough Kitty Puffs: Roses get a new home
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015. Roses get a new home. A couple of years ago, we bought a climbing rose, with the intention of building an awesome trellis. And the sad little red rose dutifully climbed up. You can see it hanging out in the background here, in a pot with it's skinny little canes growing upwards. Then I laid out a pattern of bricks to see how many we'd need. So we brought them to the back and tried out a nice sized rectangle. Then we had to wait for evening because by now it was really hot! But it'...
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Tough Kitty Puffs: August 2015
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Thursday, August 27, 2015. There are so many little details to go into this project! Dale does the big, major things (like building walls! And I do all the smaller, precise things, like making trim that fits around the door:. To do this, I used 1/4" plywood, since the trim I cut elsewhere was about 3/8" (cut down from 1 x 3s), and I only had it 1.5" wide. This way, I could get the nice curve on top without having to piece it from a number of boards. I also made a door:. Oh,and finally, I added the center...
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Tough Kitty Puffs: June 2014
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Saturday, June 07, 2014. Day 12 - Roadside attractions! We found a great site to locate kitschy roadside attractions. And decided to map a bunch of fun photo ops since our original plan (which was to tour some interesting architectural sites: Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen and Mies Van Der Rohe's Farnsworth House) couldn't work out for us due to travel times. It was also our one really rainy day, and so as we drove from Minneapolis towards Wisconsin, we stopped at some fun roadside sites. Minnesota is als...
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Tough Kitty Puffs: Back at work
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Thursday, August 30, 2012. They will cover the block wall with a sheet of green soon. And they will thrive in the crummy soil (although we did amend it before planting). I look forward to a wall of green here - and we're going to place some decorative pots with annuals in them along the strip in the future. We went to Lakewood Nursery. Because the reviews on Yelp! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Posts about our Vardo. Featured on IKEA hackers. North side yard finished! My Teaching Website Links.
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Tough Kitty Puffs: Art Teaching Stuff
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I was a high school art teacher for 15 years - what a wonderful job! Before entering a doctoral program and finally getting a job at a university in California. I love teaching at all levels. My research interests are all about studio art production and effective teaching strategies, and a lot of my interest is in visual journaling. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Posts about our Vardo. Featured on IKEA hackers. My Teaching Website Links. Http:/ art407.weebly.com. Http:/ art305.weebly.com.
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Tough Kitty Puffs: Yard comparison - 2 years later
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Friday, June 12, 2015. Yard comparison - 2 years later. This summer will be the second year our front yard has been growing - and growing! We were doing some succulent trimming the other day - giving away starts and agave pups on CL Free - and I knew I had pictures that showed how much some of the plants had grown. The agaves in particular. So I looked through the pictures so I could do some side-by-side comparisons. This is the view from the front steps:. The yard looks fantastic! The yard looks very ni...
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Tough Kitty Puffs: Vardo coming along
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. So we've been working slowly but steadily on our little vardo camper. Last time I posted, we had just begun getting the two end panels on. Well, we've made a lot of progress since then:. We got both sides framed and added the rafters. These are notched into the tongue and groove ends for stability. We also got the sides skinned with beadboard paneling:. I cut off some of the extra lead, and then cleaned off the cement that is used to weather proof it. I didn't show it here, bu...
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Tough Kitty Puffs: June 2015
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Sunday, June 14, 2015. In most of the parks we visited last year, we picked up a small metal emblem that is made to hammer onto a walking stick. Somehow we managed to misplace a couple (yellowstone? But they'll turn up eventually. The ones we do have are:. Death Valley. Dale and I went there over the winter when the weather was somewhat reasonable. Still hot, but not bad. Arches National Park - this park was beautiful, but we ended up on a hike that was a little over our heads! Friday, June 12, 2015.
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Tough Kitty Puffs: our summer adventure plan
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Monday, June 08, 2015. Our summer adventure plan. This is the mission that the swallows come back to every year in March. We haven't had the opportunity to witness that yet, but maybe this next year. We did see swallows last month on our way down to San Diego, but not at the mission. We visited this mission way back in 2012, but we still counted it for our total. For this summer, that still leaves us with 20 to go. We also took a day to go see the two missions in the Los Angeles area - Mission San Fernan...