productive procrastination

after seeing this on etsy yesterday, i thought, "hey, i've got some amazonite beads and some wire. maybe i can make that." so instead of working on the paper i have due tonight, this morning i made this. it needs work, but i think i'll give it to my mom as an engagement gift. yeah, i may be the world's worst procrastinator, but at least i get other things done, here at the Short Attention Span Theater (to use a marigan phrase).

shady side spread

Drew Birthday 2006 004
Originally uploaded by na_praha.

so we've been busy

here's our new and largely improved kitchen!
in a week, with about $200, we:

• patched, primed and laid a new vinyl tile floor
• sanded, repaired and painted all our cabinets, including the interiors of four of them
• painted the bronze metal hardware a hammered steel color
• removed three cabinet doors to create open storage
• i'm still working on painting the laminate counters with aluminum paint to create a brushed steel finish, and we're replacing the faucet with a chrome pull-out model
  
  the after pictures don't really do it justice...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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scenes from our mass and vt trip - ok, mostly vt.

the digital camera was out of commision for the first half of our trip, and we've yet to develop the film from d's camera, so here's just a smattering of annotated images from our sojourn to new marlborough, great barrington and environs, and then on to the bethel, vt area for the dooley's pig roast. yeah, it was a while ago. haven't been blogging much.
















inside the war memorial on top of mt. greylock, north adams, ma.
















drew looking towards new marlborough and new york from the top of the war memorial tower
















lily, age 5, on top of mt. greylock
















mike and smitty, reckoning with the pig
















the day after the roast, when it was too hot and we were too hot to do anything but be in a river















drew, right after he lost his wedding ring while bodily shooting the rapids

what a pig looks like the morning after it has been picked clean by a horde of people. note that the eye is missing. that is because someone ate it at 3 am.

drew holding a miniscule frog we found walking through the fields by mike and corinna's house