September 2009

Update: Cool vintage carving set

September 9, 2009

A little Web-cruising reveals that the carving set that I was lucky enough to find at last weekend’s estate sale must have been made before 1950. After I cleaned the knife’s blade, a maker’s mark became visible: Universal L F & C “L F & C” stands for Landers, Frary, & Clark, once a prominent [...]

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Moments of Fame

September 9, 2009

Another amazing Make It from Scratch Carnival has gone live, this week hosted by Gotta Little Space to Fill. I always feel that my contributions to this round-up (this week’s is the watermelon Mexican water recipe) are very tiny compared to the wonderful offerings from more talented cooks and crafters. Take a look for example, [...]

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Free entertainment

September 8, 2009

The other evening La Bethulia and La Maya invited me to join them for dinner and then to do the rounds of First Friday, a sprawling monthly open house for galleries and studios in the downtown arts district. Interestingly, they invited a particularly charming friend along—let’s call him Bob —and we headed off for an [...]

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Update: Soda ash frolic

September 7, 2009

The great swimming pool soda ash crisis has resolved itself. Along about 5:30 the evening before Bob the Wonderful Leslie’s Pool Guy was slated to show up, I realized that bumping the filter’s backwash valve every 30 minutes or hour had drained off a fair amount of diatomaceous earth, so I added another four pounds. [...]

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Money happens!

September 6, 2009

SDXB, the master guru of Bumhood, says that when one has no visible means of support “money happens.” As one of those obsessives who craves to know enough is in the bank to cover a month’s expenses before the month begins, I’ve always felt skeptical about that. But as a practical matter, the man is [...]

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Estate-saling in a tropical storm

September 5, 2009

La Maya and a cousin of La Bethulia’s dropped by early this morning to pick me up on the way to an estate sale in the fancy part of a far-flung arm of the galaxy. The house was located in the elegant suburbs of far, far, far north Scottsdale. Actually, it dwelt in a small [...]

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