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What a great blank space to work with. I've been working on a small section of my son's back yard over the last 2 years that has a similar structure. Wish I had taken before pictures. In the after, there's virtually no room to plant, hang, or set anything else.

Ahhh, so I am a Triple H. So glad to have a name for my style. This makes me realize how much practicality meshed with ingenuity and uniqueness was a hallmark of the various hippie pads I've lived in or visited since my first apartment. Not limited to the 60s by any means. As I recall, decoupage and macrame were short cuts to styling a true piece of refuse, such as a broken down milk crate.

There were a few pinyon trees in my home town. If you knew where they were, you didn't tell anybody. I'm still in the habit of checking for random pine nuts under the trees as I walk by. Imagine shelling enough of these tiny bullets just to get a spoonful of nut. I never eat pine nuts now (knowingly) for fear of getting a bad batch.

Biting into a watery avocado is the worst. I just can't wrap my head around a thawed avocado tasting anywhere near as good as fresh. Maybe if you know for a fact that the avocado is, indeed, perfectly buttery in texture before it goes into the freezer.

I love fonts and numbers. Great job. That must stop visitors in their tracks.

Between yesterday and today's selection, you'd almost think the color-line hadn't been broken. There was an outstanding and inclusive display of baseball art at the George Krevsky gallery in San Francisco. I think it's come & gone, but he does it every year, and it just gets better and better.

Serve drinks after the S'mores for safety. Serve before for inoculating the tastebuds.

I am totally stealing/adapting that idea! Martha Steward magazine subscription renewal, here I come!

I could fall into that first pic. I remember the first couple of places I lived when I moved out on my own. Were those the most comfortable, most colorful, most enjoyable, rooms I've ever had? Maybe it just seems so because I was more free-spirited back then. Or maybe because I hadn't yet acquired this trainload of possesions that burden me now. Sigh.

Number 1 has a certain bohemian charm that is totally lost in the transformation. But I understand the desire to un-decay a sweet little corner of the world like that if it was something I lived with on a daily basis.