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Roaming Through Michigan

whatgoodcrafts — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:00:32 +0000

A short tourism documentary from 1949 on Northern Michigan:

Trevor

Raised Garden Bed

whatgoodcrafts — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:12 +0000

Mary and I finished building a raised garden bed in our yard and planted some vegetable seeds. Some of them are just starting to sprout.

Trevor

A Year of Sunday Mornings: Week Thirty-Two

whatgoodcrafts — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:01:26 +0000

The best birthday present ever!

Mary

A Year of Sunday Mornings: Week Thirty-One

whatgoodcrafts — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:36:26 +0000

Yesterday, we went to Canada for a Tweed Ride. It was adorable and a jolly good time. However, I don’t recommend beginning to drink at noon and not stopping until eleven. I don’t know if I’ll be leaving bed today.

Mary

Office Shelving

whatgoodcrafts — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:03:18 +0000

In our continued effort to get our tiny house situated, I finally completed the office shelving. We wanted something to go around the bar, and after going through many plans for the shelving, we finally decided on a combination of wood shelves and steel brackets to hold everything into place.

Since we’re renting, I didn’t want to invest in permanent shelving that we couldn’t reuse. By not building the entire thing out of wood, it’ll be much easier to take apart and reassemble.

I built the left side and right side separately and anchored each into the wall, with one metal bracket on each side touching the floor for added support. The trickiest part was putting in the top shelf for our large collection of game boards.

Because two brackets prevented the top shelf from easily sliding into place, I had to carve out a notch to fit it in.

Trevor

Science Labs

whatgoodcrafts — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:00:17 +0000

I found this article on early science labs the other day and wanted to share some of the images here. I loved looking at the equipment and design in their workspace.

Edison’s Menlo Park Lab, nearby in Dearborn, MI

Girton College at Cambridge University, the first college to allow women undergrads.

A Thomas Edison Lab in New Jersey

Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark

All images from io9

Trevor

A Year of Sunday Mornings: Week Thirty

whatgoodcrafts — Sun, 05 May 2013 13:10:14 +0000

It’s warm out side but snowing in my house. Narnia?

Mary

Planning for Wagakwud

whatgoodcrafts — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:21:07 +0000

We’ve begun planning our third year of Camp Wagakwud and we couldn’t be more excited to finally go camping again this summer.

from A well traveled woman

from Poler

from Adore the World

Trevor

A Year of Sunday Mornings: Week Twenty-Nine

whatgoodcrafts — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:37:41 +0000

This has been a solitary and introspective and perfect few days. It was cold, and I felt nature was playing a cruel joke on us. I wanted to build my little garden and drink iced tea in the sun.

Instead, I had a placid indoor sort of weekend. I took long runs and longer baths. I lingered in the stacks of my favorite bookstore, thumbing through the yellowed pages of mycology texts, and leaving with the perfect 1950s Canadian mushroom text and a slew of other things.

I made toast on the stove and at it in bed with the biggest mug of coffee. And I’ll read more, and run more, and cook more today.

Sometimes, nothing is better than being utterly alone.

Mary

Birthday Bash

whatgoodcrafts — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:00:22 +0000

I celebrated my birthday this past weekend with a dinner Friday night, house warming/birthday party Saturday, and spent Sunday recovering and watching Space Jam.

Here’s a round-up of some of the top-notch gifts I received this year.

Detroit Decanter and Glass set from City Bird

Wes Anderson poster

Mary handmade me this log carrier. I can’t wait to go camping this summer.

Pine-scented Pillow

Trevor