Wednesday WTF
In the Clint Eastwood classic, Magnum Force, Dirty Harry Callahan’s last line of the movie is, “A man’s got to know his limitations.” Well, that expression is never truer than when you are a homeowner, and the idea of “Hey, we can do this ourselves” creeps into your mind. When my husband and I bought…
True confession time, folks. I love yard art. More specifically, animal yard art. I have, roughly, four-and-a-half pieces of yard art in my front yard. There’s the four-foot-tall, multi-colored rooster named Rodriguez. There’s also Jerry the giraffe riding a tricycle. There’s a flower basket on the back of his tricycle. Then there’s Rainbow the peacock,…
Every family has their little rituals. One of mine is to keep our DVR at a healthy 65 percent. It never fails that when I hit that sweet spot, our daughter comes home from school and the available space plummets down to 5 percent for the length of her visit. It is one of the…
I have always been a sucker for castles. Perhaps it is because as a child I loved the movie Cinderella. The cute little mice who served as Cinderella’s hype team while also helping with the dishes and the mopping, they always kept her hopping … It was a happy ending with Cinderella riding away with…
One of the fun aspects of writing WTF Wednesday is that my friends are now sending me listings of homes that are a little much. No more, “Hey Mimi. How are you? Let’s get together for lunch or Pickleball or to catch up.” The texts they send me are straight to the point, “Mimi. I…
