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Hanging It Updates

Posted on October 2, 2015 by CT | 4 comments

Hey everyone – it’s been awhile so I thought I would just plunge in with some updates, highlights and clips of what life has been like around the Living Analog household lately:

After another trip around the blazing hot sun (it was 104 degrees here yesterday on the first day of October!) JT rewarded me with something I have had my eye on for a while now …. an Eames Hang It All!

Husband is actually very smart and lets me self-select most gifts as I am ridiculously opinionated on all things that live in our house. He did also surprise me with flowers at work this year, bonus points husband. Back to the Hang It All – is it a little overpriced for a coat hook? Sure. Do I love it and want to keep it forever? Yes please.

It’s right inside the front door so I can now just drop my purse and bag right when I get home from work. It keeps everything off the floor (e.g. dog hair free) and did I mention that I love it? Moving on …

Some more little updates from our world:

– Also for my birthday (did I mention I’m pretty spoiled?) JT and I took a weekend road trip to southeast Arizona. We visited Tombstone for a few hours (that’s about all the touristy time we could handle) and stayed the night in Bisbee, which I really loved and reminded me of the American West version of Portwenn in Doc Martin but far and away the highlight of the trip was the winery region around Sonoita. It was so beautiful and there was some good wine. We are going back and hopefully soon!

The high desert is amazing. I took this picture from a moving car while driving east from Sonoita towards our hotel in Sierra Vista. Amazing views for miles and miles. And – five years late I joined Instagram. I posted the above picture up and was proud to add the hashtag #nofilter! My Instagram handle is ct.livinganalog. I’m hoping to use Instagram to help me get my photos out of my phone more and into an actual printed form. If anyone has some good recommendations for Instagram prints, I’m all ears.

– Sophie (the dog) is on antibiotics after getting her first UTI. She started peeing inside the house once a day and we figured it was just a part of the old age thing so we got her a doggie diaper (that didn’t stay on … I also tried the toddler diapers from Target with a hole cut out for the tail but that was even worse …). The drugs seem to have kicked in and we are back to a pee-free house. However, we are now also a rug free house because she has done a LOT of damage. The carpet on the second level was pretty well toast when we moved in but now it’s beyond gone. Thanks Sophie …

(She’s so cute though And we’re glad she’s feeling better.)

– JT made me a log table! We had a tree crew come and cut down a dead and mostly knocked over tree as well as the tree at the back most corner of the yard. Couple that with our backyard neighbor getting their tree (excessively) trimmed due to aggressive hybridized “killer” bees, and things got kind of bare in our backyard for a while. The quail all quit us for a little bit but we got a huge bird feeding block from the hardware store and now they’re starting to come back. JT will have to do a proper post about the log table but it’s been a great addition for the living room – perfect for holding a beverage and just looking cool.

– There have been other, more terrifying bugs than the hybridized bees around … I found this THING in the garage the other day, words don’t even do it justice. It appeared to be part large black spider and part scorpion or crab. It was waiting for me at the door from the laundry room to the garage (it was inside the garage though, not actually in the house). I was too terrified to get a picture of it while alive and the dead picture doesn’t even show what it could be but here goes ….

The body part of the creature was about the size of a quarter and then the legs when out from there …. I hope I never meet that bug’s mother. I think it was an alien.

– We’ve been taking lots of little trips and one big trip (to Portland!). We’ve been traveling around Arizona and camping and staying as many places as our three day weekends allow – Payson and Lake Pleasant and Tucson, Jerome, Prescott and Apache Junction. We’ve driven to Las Vegas from here once (it’s about 5 hours and you go through about 5 different types of environments – even a Joshua Tree forest). Driving in Arizona is fascinating and terrifying because once you get out of the valley, the scenery is breathtaking but the roads immediately become steep, winding and full of tractor trailers going too fast.

Above is a snap from one of our jaunts – the Elvis Chapel at the Superstition Mountain Museum. Yes, Elvis (or a non-lifelike replica statue) was inside. Yes, my sunglasses are too big for my face – look at all that sunshine! A girl has to take cover where she can get it in this state. Portland (Oregon) was so amazing and such a great respite from the heat we’ve been plodding through. I’ll do a better Portland recap in my next post. I loved it there and I could easily see doing a 6 month split with Phoenix – live in Portland for the 6 months of summer and Phoenix for the 6 months of winter. Now I just need to find a job that will let me telecommute like that …..

I hope all is well with my interwebs friends! I’ll be around more and I hope to catch up with everyone.

Cheers – CT

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So early retirement didn’t quite work out ….

Posted on April 19, 2015 by CT | 4 comments

Something has happened here at Living Analog that has pulled me out of early retirement, off the bench, back from the dead …. pick your metaphor. It’s been a long strange trip, but the Danish daybeds we purchased way, way, way back in 2011 are done. Upholstered (by a professional), wood doctored up (by me with Howard’s Restor-a-finish) and in place in our new house. Yes, we bought a place in Phoenix and are working, working, working to make our new house feel like our home.

But first, the daybeds. Here they are in all their glory on Mister Modtomic’s driveway:

And here they are now, presiding over the living room of our new house.

(That’s JT’s guitar hook on the wall, the guitar was with him at band practice but it is a refinish job that he did and matches the grey of the new upholstery really well.)

I was able to get the fabric on super sale at SAS Fabrics up on 19th Avenue. They were getting rid of a lot of their upholstery fabrics and so the grey material was really cheap – I can’t remember exactly (because that was like 6 months ago and I’m losing my mind) but I think it ended up being around $5 a yard. Don’t quote me on that. Upholstery labor costs seem to be a bit more affordable in PHX than they were in STL as well…

My mom paid for the upholstery work as a house-warming gift and I love these guys so much. We decided to go with five 24″ x 24″ loose pillows for the backs rather than replicating the triangle bolsters that had been on the daybeds before. We got new 6″ super firm foam for the bases as well. These daybeds are comfy – both JT and I have already taken a few snoozes on them. The dogs are getting older and with no traction from the tile floor, don’t like to jump up that high so they just keep to their dog beds on the floor, which is fine by me.

So that’s our news. My goal is to begin posting again more regularly as we start up all sorts of fun projects on the new (to us) house. We are in the Awhatukee area of Phoenix with short drives to work and an amazing mountain view. And a hot tub in the backyard from which to enjoy said mountain.

The location is really what sold us on the house …. from the front it is all garage and tan stucco which is pretty much the bane of my existence. For my next post, I’ll go into the back story of the new house. I’ve missed my little corner of the blogosphere, thanks to those who dropped me notes to check in. Our laptop was at the point where it took at least thirty agonizing minutes just to load the internet and after a 10 hour work day, I just didn’t have the patience to fight the computer over a blog post. JT found us a mac he was interested in for music recording purposes and I love our zippy new machine although I’m having to relearn all things posting related since I haven’t used a mac since my college days ….

Cheers! CT

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Posted in Around the house, Furniture, Living Room, Moving Adventures

News of (a very small corner of) the world (small updates)

Posted on August 2, 2013 by CT | 4 comments

Hi Everyone. All 5 of you. So much love for reading my little corner of the world. I thought I would take this Feisty Friday (what we call it at work!) and update you all on the goings-on at Living Analog.

First things first. My husband is a lot of amazing things and one of them is amazingly creative. He just finished up recording a new song (that he wrote). It boggles my mind that this person I live with CAN WRITE A WHOLE SONG. And sing it, and play all the instruments that goes into it. He’s not a one man army, he gets a lot of input from his band mates. So if you have any inclination and because I don’t have the capacity right now to figure out how to upload this thing, check out his band blog at www.grandbeautymusic.com. The song is called “You Go Blind”.

I mean, how can you not love a guy who can write music and who hangs out with his dog, making sure no marauding kitty-cats come and invade their territory?

Next up: Cameron. Cam the Man, foster dog extraordinaire is still hanging out at Living Analog. We’ve taken him to be famous on TV (featured on KSDK’s Sammy’s Stars) and countless adoption events. Last week my sister and I took him to see Roman Holiday on Art Hill. He was a perfect gentleman and charmed all the ladies in line for LuLu’s Food Truck and then settled in and watched the movie as quiet as a little mouse. He’s come out of his shell so much in the few months he’s been back in our house and I really, really, really want him to find a forever home soon so they can enjoy this goofy love of a dog. Unfortunately most people are really charmed by him and then put off by his age. Any suggestions you guys have on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I’m kind of at a loss as to what to do — so this weekend we’ll be at the Sunday adoption event at Local Harvest in Kirkwood if anyone wants to meet the Silver Fox.

And last but not least — a new project! There is a room at the back of our house, directly off the kitchen that I have never, ever showed on our floor plan. Kind of like it doesn’t exist. But it does. And it’s crazy town in there. So when Apartment Therapy started posting about the August Style Cure, I thought it might be a good kick in the rear to sign up and get our back porch back on track once and for all.

It’s bad.

Which means it can only get better from here!

The first assignment for the Style Cure was a sort-of style diagnostic. JT and I both took one. It was kind of hard! It’s not everyday you sit down and pin point exactly what it is you like and why you like it.

JT decided my style is “British and fancy”. I hit back with his style being “Nerdy and fancy”. The main take-away is that at the end of the day we both prefer quality over quantity and want a relaxing, inviting space. So that’s what we’ll be working on for the next month. Anyone else doing the Style Cure? Have a great weekend regardless! Cheers – CT

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TCB – New outlets!

Posted on May 21, 2013 by CT | 6 comments

One of the joys of living in an old home is all the maintenance, replacement and just general care it needs. I’m so lucky to have a handy husband who takes on a lot of these “TCB” Tasks (as I call them, because I love Elvis and Elvis loves TCB).

The most recent TCB task that JT took on was installing new outlets all throughout the living room. The old ones were a hodge podge of colors, styles and various layers (layers!) of paint — probably not the safest thing to be plugging into. Plus, they get loosened up and the plugs don’t always stay in them . . . it can make for a weird seance-like episode when your light fixture decides to turn itself off and then on again whenever it likes.

Today is also JT’s birthday – my man is getting older. I wanted to take a chance and so very publicly tell him what an amazing husband he is. He takes on all my crazy rearranging and new/old furniture buying projects without hesitation. He loves and supports me every day. He makes me laugh. He changes outlets. He has been by my side for this crazy journey since the day we met when we were seventeen and I hope to be by his side for at least seventy more years. Happy birthday husband!

It’s also JT’s brother’s birthday — by some cosmic, karmic twist of fate they were born on the same day exactly 10 years apart. Growing up with only sisters, Shane is the brother I never had and didn’t think I would ever get. Happy birthday Shane! (He changes outlets too, just at a different house but like JT he’s also taken ladies – step back!)

(PS — The JT and me picture came from this weekend’s Webster Grooves – a retro-soul festival in Webster Groves. We came for JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound and they were awesome. You should check out their new single here. JT found this band for your listening pleasure, another reason why he’s amazing.)

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Another one about homemade art

Posted on April 6, 2013 by CT | 6 comments

One more post about artist canvases. I’m not a painter. I never had any formal training in painting. I did have to take one drawing class in college and it was miserable. I hated the critique days and having to put my deformed and pathetic sketches up next to my classmates beautifully rendered images. But sometimes you need artwork for your house and you’re cash-strapped and you resort to painting it yourself.

Let me rewind for a minute. A few months back I picked up a little canvas at the local St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop. I searched high and low for the original images but to no avail — when I bought it, the canvas had a lavender background with white flowers painted on it. It looked like something I would have presented in college had I been required to take a painting class (a little amateur-ish to say the least). I felt a little bad when I jesso-ed over the canvas until I remembered it had been consigned over to St. Vincent de Paul.

Part two of this long-winded and potentially underwhelming story has to do with the brassy arc lamp I picked up at the auction at Vandeventer Vintage. I was considering giving it a new coat of (spray) paint, maybe in black to help it fit in with the living room a little better. (Read more of my angst here when we brought home a second lamp). I decided instead of painting this great vintage gem, I would bring in more brassy/gold goodness to make it feel at home.

Back to the painting. First I jesso-ed it, then I applied a few coats of a gold spray paint I had on hand. I found a cool example image on Pinterest that had large blocks of color and used that as my starting point. At first I had taped the canvas off with some 1″ painters tape we had around the house but the proportions felt weird so I “had to” order some washi tape from Etsy.

The washi tape didn’t perfectly keep the paint inside its boundaries so I had to do a little touch-up once I removed it. I took over the tulip table and spent a couple of days mixing up paint colors like a mad scientist. I used the kitchen blue color, the living room accent wall (SW Urbane Bronze) in its full hue and also lightened a few shades with white and a few new colors. JT requested “light red” and I told him he just asked for pink. However I was able to mix up a nice red-orange that seemed to satisfy his request.

The brassy/gold undercoat plus the paint colors from around the house really work to tie things all together in the living room.

Also, white fingernails! Because Easter was last Sunday, I feel like we’re in the clear for white shoe season and I celebrated by putting one of my favorite colors on my nails. Yesterday (Friday) was one of the first days it really, really felt like spring around here and everyone fled the office for City Garden at lunch. I had lunch at Lulu’s, an all-vegan food truck (so good!) and took in the sights. I know I talk about the Flaming Lips a lot, but this sculpture struck me as being very Wayne Coyne-esque.

On to the weekend everyone! I’m taking Cameron to an adoption event today at the Kirkwood Wal-Mart from 11am to 1pm. Stop by and say hi to the old guy! Cheers – CT

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Rearranging is my middle name.

Posted on April 3, 2013 by CT | 4 comments

I don’t know if I was born this way or if it something I developed, but I have a real and abiding affection for rearranging our house all the time. Like last Friday at 9:00 at night. JT is trying to watch a music documentary and I’m buzzing around the house, looking for something to tinker with. Sometimes I just can’t stop!

Since Cameron joined the household, we needed a lot of clear floor space in the bedroom for dog lounging (the sleep in there in dog beds on the floor). Well, I still hadn’t gotten around to putting together that art wall and the large canvas was leaning against the wall . . . . until one night when (we think) Sophie knocked into it and toppled the whole thing over. Being the neurotic dog that she is, she was TERRIFIED. That canvas tried to eat her and she had to sleep on top of me that night to make sure it wouldn’t come back for her later.

So I found a place for it in the living room! Yep, the before I’m about to show you I had labeled as an “after” all of two weeks ago. Hold on to your seats, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

There already was a substantially hung nail there from before (still hadn’t gotten around to removing/spackling/sanding/painting) and so I thought I would try the big canvas there.

I think it’s working. At least I like it and so does Husband. Although I need to get another indoor tree since I shuffled this one over here and now the other corner where it was living looks sad. Fiddle leaf fig for the win this time?

The great thing about this arrangement is how great this works as a “landing strip” (Apartment Therapy’s words, not mine) or stuff containment zone. When we come in the front door (right there to the right), we can put down our work bags, slide our shoes under the tables, drop our keys on Paul. It’s all working out great. The modem is also under the tables as well — they had to drill through the wood floor (so horrible, but before the days of wireless stuff and we used to have our TV there back forever ago when we had cable). It’s hiding in the turned over basket. The basket is pretty open weave and a lot bigger than the stuff under there so it seems to be “breathing” all right.

Anyone else keep an extra house-worth of furniture in their basement so rooms upstairs can be rearranged at a moment’s notice? There are some advantages to hoarding! Cheers – CT

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Where did Paul go?

Posted on March 21, 2013 by CT | 2 comments

The new music station caused me to once again shuffle everything around in the Living Room but have no fear, folks, Paul is staying.

(An updated furniture floor plan. I don’t know what happened to those poche walls but it looks kind of cool.)

There are some pieces in the house that I really want to hold on to, others I keep around because they fit in for now or I’m still hunting down that amazingly-perfect-but-so-cheap-from-a-thrift find. “Paul”, as I call my McCobb Planner Group secretary is a keeper. He was holding up the ledges wall but has now moved over here to greet visitors at the front door.

This wall is looking a little bare but I’m slowly moving in artwork as the furniture continues to shuffle around. What’s great about this setup is it gives us the “landing strip” they’re always pushing for over at Apartment Therapy. The salon-style vinyl chair is a great place to drop my purse or my work bag and Paul gladly holds the day’s mail and the contents of JT’s pockets.

(View from the front door above. That’s my Martin Sigma that I still don’t know how to play yet.) Ironically the salon style vinyl chair and the four wood chairs we have around the tulip table were the things I thought for sure would sell at the Green Shag sale last year but didn’t. Then I had each posted on Craigslist and now I’m pretty glad they’re still here. Go figure.

In the (much larger) world outside our living room, Google decided to close down its Reader. I liked Reader so much that I even blogged about it (almost two years ago! yikes!) So what is a blog-addicted girl to do? I tried out Feedly and liked the iPhone app but it wouldn’t work on the required Internet Explorer browser we have at work. No blog reading all day long? Not happening. So I switched over to Bloglovin. (Kind of wish they had a better name, makes me think of McLovin from Superbad). It has a much more image-oriented format, which I am enjoying so far.

(Yep, that’s a screenshot from my Bloglovin account and I am a major blog addict!!!)

In the blog world, I’m afraid we may have lost JT from this site forever. He set up a great new site for his band, Grand Beauty, here. We haven’t all the way decided on things but I think he may start posting his guitar raids and fixes on the band website. We’ll see.

At any rate, you should check it out. He’s uploaded a bunch of their recordings. That’s my husband singing “Beast of Burden” and if it doesn’t make you want to take your clothes off and dance around, you may need to have your head examined. Cheers – CT

PS – HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISTER!

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Posted in Around the house, Guitars, Living Room, Music related

Spastic and Sporadic

Posted on February 6, 2013 by CT | 4 comments

Things have been a bit spastic and sporadic over here at Living Analog. I have about 500 projects half started and zero finished. We’re getting ready for our “Sweetheart’s Dinner” (AKA Valentine’s Dinner Party) and I’ve been really been looking for ways to amp this up and squeeze some juicy blog content out of it. So that led to more projects . . .

So what have I done (besides whining and bellyaching)? Well Pinterest is the devil and sidetracked me with some recipes: baked cinnamon apple chips and homemade cheese-its that I just had to try:

The apple chips were eat-them-right-now-and-then-make-more good. The DIY cheese-its were a little meh. I think I left the dough in the fridge too long and need to roll them thinner. It was good enough to give it a second try — plus it’s nice to make these and know what four ingredients are in them versus the chemical smorgasbord you buy at the store. Off my soapbox now . . . are you on Pinterest? I’m mildly addicted and sometimes majorly annoyed. I’ll pin something and later go to click-through to the original source and . . . nothing. Or spam. Right now my policy is to only repin items — Pinterest is still a gray area for makers and artisans — do they want their items pinned for all to attempt a duplicate? Maybe not. So by only repinning, I’m sort of off the hook when it comes to the point of putting someone else’s item on Pinterest without their permission. The exception to that is items for sale — I totally have a pin board with a crazy expensive purse that I want. I figure if an item is available for internet retail, they only benefit by having it on Pinterest. . . .

That’s me, if you want to meet up over there. I should figure out how to put a linky-thing up for that. I probably also need to start watermarking my photos but that’s for another day . . . no time, too many projects!

Oh yeah . . .another Pinterest project . . .

(Pardon the bad iPhone picture). This is my plan to tie in the arc lamp and all its brassy goodness. Add some more gold/brass! This is a thrift store canvas I picked up for a few dollars and have spray painted metallic. Next step paint like this cool pin:

{Image via this blog}

Now that I look at my version versus their version, I think I am going to retape. I like how this canvas has one major vanishing point . . . back to the drawing board . . . and onto other projects . . .

Here’s something for the dinner party:

I found this little cookie cutter at World Market and it will make little shortbread cookies that sit on the edge of a coffee cup. And I just got new coffee cups that nest into a little serving tray from my mom for Christmas so I know that will be getting used. . . next?

Here’s my view from bed last night. A little progress on the art wall . . .

A project with less progress is the pile ‘o paperwork I dug out of the hall closet for filing, shredding and other such pain in the ass handling. I need to get this sucker finished.

So that is a random wrap-up of the random goings-on at the Living Analog abode. It’s all kinds of spastic and sporadic . . . I’ve got project A.D.D – hopping from one to the next back to another . . .

Speaking of spastic and sporadic, or maybe just neurotic . . . does anyone else sort their M&Ms by color or is that just me . . .

Yep, officially into crazy. Back to the races, I mean projects . . .I mean work. Cheers – CT

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What to do when unexpected houseguests arrive . . .

Posted on January 25, 2013 by CT | 6 comments

(Answer: Scream?)

Normally JT gets home from work before I do but yesterday I had to travel for work and arrived home a little earlier (since I also left the house a little earlier at 5:00 am). When I got home, there was an unexpected houseguest waiting for me.

A bird! We think it must have come down the chimney somehow. (In my grainy iPhone picture it almost looks like an Eames House Bird. Don’t I wish. It was real. And really terrified.)

Picture this frantic phone call: Me: “There’s a BIRD IN THE HOUSE {SCREEEEEAM}. JT: “There’s a burglar? Calm down, what is happening?” Me: “No, there’s a BIRD IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”. Cue hysterical laughing on husband’s end of phone as all his co-workers within a four cubicle radius hear my screeching through the phone.

I finally got it together, opened an umbrella over my head and got the doors open to shoo the bird out. He left his mess behind.

The irony is that while I like most animals, I do not like birds so coming home to a freaked out one in my kitchen almost put me over the edge. They’re like little feathered dinosaurs. However I do have bird decor items, like this little tealight holder from CB2 that is right now living on the new lamp/table.

Why is it that I think something is cute in the ceramic form but not the real life form?

Have a great weekend everyone! I’m going to try to make the most of the daylight this weekend by taking a lot of pictures of things we have going on around the house. . . . more to come (hopefully no more birds though!) Cheers – CT

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Is this the lamp for me?

Posted on January 15, 2013 by CT | 6 comments

You guys, I had a folder all set up on my trusty little thumb drive, on which I transport around all my precious blog cargo, to post about my desperate quest for a lamp. I figured if I posted up on the inter-webs what I was looking for, it would magically appear at my house.

Our living room has no ceiling light fixtures and so we rely on lamps for all of our light in this space. Next to the “Man Chair” there was a space that needed some illumination. But we also need a table there to set important things like wine glasses and remotes. So I began a quest to find the perfect lamp, looking for images or items to add to my little blog folder and post for your perusal. Items like these:

#1 Similar to a walnut one I spotted at Treasure Aisles Antique Mall. It was too expensive . . . we left it behind. (Example image from 1st Dibs). And it would still need a table . . . .

#2 Designed by Jonathan Adler for Lamps Plus . . . really too expensive, although it does have a drink holder.

#3 My retro dream – a tension mounted light fixture that would span from floor to ceiling. With such a small footprint, I would find it a nice table. Doesn’t it already look like it was photographed against our new dark grey wall? Sigh.

And then while scouting around the internet one day, I found this on World Market’s site.

Simple , clean lines and on sale for $50? Includes table and lamp shade? We went Friday night and scouted it out — we found it way separate from all the lighting, almost into the kitchen department. So we scooped it up and brought it home before I ever had a chance to post my plight on the blog.

I like a lot of things about it (price, function, overall aesthetic) but I’m not 100% sold. It’s just a teeny bit too tall and I worry that it competes with the other light fixtures in the room.

(Oh and that’s JT’s latest eBay item just lounging in the living room, like guitars do.)

Here are the other major light fixtures :

1) Pendant above dining room table, just adjacent. These two shades actually play well together.

2) Brassy arc lamp with pretty wood base across the room.

My other thought rather than ditching the new light is maybe to hit brassy light with some nice black spray paint . . . is this sacrilegious?

So — let’s vote! Either we A) Return the World Market lamp and keep looking and hope that tension pole retro fixture magically is delivered to our front door or B) spray paint the arc lamp black that I scored at auction last year. Or maybe you have a write-in ballot C option for me? Thanks for playing! Cheers – CT

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So early retirement didn’t quite work out ….

TCB – New outlets!

Another one about homemade art

Rearranging is my middle name.

Spastic and Sporadic

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Is this the lamp for me?

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