Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
My Drug Friend
Yesterday I went to our doctor for a physical exam. It was the intrusive kind you get when you hit 50 - I'll spare you the details. The news was mostly good, except that my blood pressure is too high. So as of today I am taking lisinopril, a generic ACE inhibitor.
This is sort of a rite of passage to the elder years - my first neverending prescription! Before you know it I will need one of those little seven-day pill holders to keep all the drug doses organized. Here's hoping that, with the help of modern pharmacology, I will be driving Lee Ann crazy for another fifty years.
This is sort of a rite of passage to the elder years - my first neverending prescription! Before you know it I will need one of those little seven-day pill holders to keep all the drug doses organized. Here's hoping that, with the help of modern pharmacology, I will be driving Lee Ann crazy for another fifty years.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Tower House Sink Wall Complete - Almost
Something For Everyone
Friday, April 10, 2009
Update - Tower House Kitchen
Here are some views of the kitchen project I have been picking away at. Photo #1 is the base cabinet I am building using pieces of an old built-in stepback I got at auction last fall. Note the new plywood shell. In photo #2
you see our Chambers gas stove which has been in storage the last three years. It's all hooked up with a new gas line and ready to cook. Photo #3 shows our white enamel icebox, which we will use for pots & pans storage, and photo #4 is a close-up of the cast iron sink we bought in Louisville a few weeks ago. I love this kitchen, and it's going to look great once I get it put together.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Annie In The Kitchen...
Here's a rare case where Annie is in the kitchen and not just passing through. She was busy this afternoon between homework and her closing shift at Whit's making Ghirardelli Classic Brownies. SPOILER ALERT - if you are a college friend of Annie's, a care package of cosmic chocolate goodness is headed your way.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Since 2003 I have put on a recurring safety training session called Safety School. It is three days long and new supervisors from my company's scattered locations come here to Cincinnati to attend.
The photo is of the belt and buckle we just started giving to participants at last week's Safety School. I think these are pretty cool. I found a custom buckle manufacturer on the internet and sent them a sketch of the design I wanted. Now here it is, in cast brass!
I am thinking that, because of this, some little bit of my creative energy might survive into the distant future. Archaeologists could be digging these buckles up a thousand years from now and saying, "What the heck is this thing - and how was a primitive culture able to design an object of such beauty and perfection?" Hey, it's not the Great Pyramids, but it's something.
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