home improvement | Lea Geller

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Jan, 2019

2019 – the year of project completion, decluttering, and some coupon jazz.

I am certain of this: One way or another, the kitchen will be done this year even though the ground floor of my house currently…

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Sep, 2018

Outdoor Instant Pot! (Or What to Do When You Find Out You’re Never Going to Have a Kitchen.)

First came to brisket in the outdoor slow cooker. Today, I borrowed an instant pot from my friend R., and I’m christening it outside on…

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Sep, 2018

Brisket in the Rain

Because the kitchen renovation has me making toast in one room, coffee in another, and eggs in a third, this is where I plug in…

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Sep, 2018

Black Coffee In Bed.

Our ground floor is a construction site. Sort of. A group of men came in, demolished two thirds of the floor, ripped out our kitchen,…

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Aug, 2018

Everything Must Go (Or, why it pays to have a pogrom in your DNA.)

After months of waiting, crying in the building department, and all but offering myself up to the gods of Yonkers (because, surely there is more…

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Jun, 2018

Flirting in Yonkers.

Our kitchen is in Yonkers.** Because we want to renovate our kitchen, we need approval from the Yonkers Building Department. (Even now, it is hard…

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Dec, 2015

Bubble, Bubble…

I’m feeling pretty good today. I’m feeling good because I believe this is the first day in two weeks that someone in this house has…

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Apr, 2015

How much wood?

Spring may technically have sprung, but it seems to be taking its sweet time. Still, it’s already April… which means we get some of this: …

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Oct, 2014

who will buy…?

Some wins: Figuring out how to store the guitars. Some losses: Trying to convince M that just because we inherit something, doesn’t mean we have…

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Sep, 2014

Crafting (or Why I Dislike Back to School Night)

I have gotten some emails as of late asking me why I haven’t written in the past two weeks. Truthfully, I had no idea two…