Three years ago, I stood in my kitchen in South Philly and watched a $300 Black+Decker handheld vacuum literally sneeze a cloud of white flour directly into my eyeballs. I had dropped a bag of King Arthur all-purpose, and instead of cleaning […]
Tuesday night, 11:14 PM. I was standing in two inches of gray, soapy water in my basement because my three-year-old “smart” front-loader decided to give up on life during a heavy load of bedding. I didn’t cry, but I wanted to. When […]
I’m not sure what you would call this old thing; I think it’s a trug and it used to live inside our Victorian ‘coffee table’ chest, but eventually ended up in the garden shed with some bits and bobs in it. So […]