Category: another day in the life
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Chez O’Shea is currently closed for renovation
And so it begins. The long-planned redo of our bathrooms has begun. Over the past two weeks we have been slowly demolishing the spare bathroom (actually, it went pretty quickly, we just kept getting interrupted by, you know, work and life and stuff like that). The cabinet and sink went quietly. The bathtub tile put…
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Moving on (or the continuing adventures of life in the money pit)
So now that I feel I can (semi) safely say that we are done with the front house remodel, it’s time to turn our attentions to (drum roll, please!) OUR house! Yes, our humble abode is now on the cutting board (so to speak) and we are gearing up for a slow, very gradual remodel…
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Just when we thought the remodel was done, it wasn’t!
So we were feeling pretty cocky, pretty woohoo-we-are-done-with-this-house-remodel-deal! And then the closet bars fell down and we realized that we had forgotten to check on the status of the closets (there are only two in the house). Once we looked, it was a pretty sad state of affairs. Each had a crummy single bar running…
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Silent movie
Chuck and I and our friends Skip and Diane headed over to Catalina Island this past Saturday for the 25th annual Catalina Island Museum Silent Film Benefit. The museum is located in the Catalina Casino, as is a movie theater and a ballroom. The movie theater was the first to be constructed for either sound…
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Mother’s Day
Mary Ellen Flick, Nov 13, 1914- Oct 23, 1967. My mother died ten days after my tenth birthday. She had a brain tumor that they tried to remove when I was six with limited success. It left her aphasic and changed. We learned to read together – me for the first time, her for the…
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The end of the remodel or how we spent the last four months and $20,000
Well, it took a lot longer than anticipated (due to our failure to anticipate how long it takes to get kitchen cabinets, among other things), but our front house kitchen remodel is complete! And even better, the house has been rented. Okay, at a bit less than we had hoped, but still, rented! So…
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