Addin' Your 'Euhs

Summer has finally set in. It's warm out, and it hasn't rained in three whole days! There are tiny tomatoes and a cucumber on the way.

As promised, Owl #2 was employed, though I changed up her head dress. This collage is 6 by 12 inches, and I used a glossy acrylic spray as opposed to the paint-on glossy glue. It yields a much different result - thinner coat of gloss, but much more even. Maybe I will use the spray and the paint-on glue together somehow in my next effort.


On Sunday, Little Rhody's largely Democratic Congress was written up in the NYT for what appears to be hard-nosed stupidity: Bucking a Trend, State Keeps Dog Racing.

PS
Last week, thebadverbs@gmail received one of its first non-spam emails. Here's the exchange from top to bottom. Ironic.

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Hi and welcome to Providence.

I literally stumbled upon your blog while googling information
about street light replacement. I live with my family in a some-
what grander -- and more run-down -- Queen Anne house in
South Providence (which I've taken to referring to as "Moby
Dick"). Coincidentally, I also grew up in DC but I've
been here almost continually since the Fall of 1977.

Hope you're enjoying your introduction to RI (ah, I see you've
actually been here over a year now so you're probably droppin'
yer R's and addin' your 'euhs).

Anyhow, I noticed the photo of the corner bench in your basement
as well as the fact that you have renovation plans. Quite simply,
if you decide you want to get rid of the bench I might be interested
in purchasing it. I am in the middle of a long-term do-it-myself
kitchen renovation which calls for construction of a very similar
bench so it might work out. If you're keeping it, well, that's fine too.

James

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Rob to James
Jul 7 (7 days ago)

hey there, james, that's crazy that you just emailed yesterday about the bench. unfortunately, this past weekend i demolished the bench (and the wall behind it) to expand our basement. just today i posted pictures of the process... you can see the befores and afters here:

http://providentpilgrims.blogspot.com/2009/07/bench-and-wall-demolition.html

sorry about that. best luck with the kitchen enhancements!