Home Worktag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-15588942008-05-08T12:51:55-07:00The endless list of chores and misadventures that await MyHomeIdea's senior editor at the end of each day.TypePadSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesWild lifetag:typepad.com,2003:post-496006082008-05-08T12:51:55-07:002008-05-08T12:51:55-07:00So we bought this fabulous bird feeder to amuse Baby Jack, and we got the expensive bird food to go with it, and we are now blessed with tons of pretty birds fluttering around our back yard, nesting in our...Lydia SomervilleFederalist Chictag:typepad.com,2003:post-494248962008-05-05T09:07:39-07:002008-05-05T09:08:20-07:00I have been enjoying the John Adams series on HBO this spring. First of all, who would have thought of Paul Giametti as one of the Founding Fathers? And yet he has the perfect well-meaning stubbornness that Adams must have...Lydia SomervilleScrew Thistag:typepad.com,2003:post-484799402008-04-30T12:37:51-07:002008-04-30T12:37:51-07:00I love my old bath fixtures, which a series of good housekeepers who lived in my house before me have kept in great condition. But recently the bathtub faucet started leaking, and I decided to try and fix it. It’s...Lydia SomervilleWill you still love me?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-484812942008-04-21T07:32:49-07:002008-04-23T09:47:13-07:00I live in a middling old house. Not a charming historic house, all gables and high ceilings, but a 1949 ranch, old enough to be falling apart but not old enough to warrant preservation. (I know many mid-Century fanatics will...Lydia SomervilleHelp wantedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-484803662008-04-18T10:45:27-07:002008-05-05T09:09:40-07:00We need a wife. I’m not talking about a ménage a trois. With the Husband and me both working, no one’s there to run the house! And there’s so much that needs to be done. Every morning I have to...Lydia SomervilleDesign schizophreniatag:typepad.com,2003:post-484841322008-04-18T09:55:54-07:002008-05-08T12:53:54-07:00Just when I’d resolved to replace my madcap English decorating style with something more restrained and mature (read “neutral”) I read Charlotte Moss in Southern Accents extolling the virtues of riotous pattern in a room. “I would use it the...Lydia SomervilleMoron at the Fuseboxtag:typepad.com,2003:post-484794262008-04-18T09:49:47-07:002008-04-23T09:58:09-07:00As I crouched on the kitchen floor this past weekend, my arm crooked at a painful angle, screwing in the frame of our pull-out trash can for the second time this year, it crossed my mind that perhaps being handy...Lydia SomervilleEnd of civilizationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-485576922008-04-16T13:57:46-07:002008-04-18T10:25:10-07:00When we got our new 42-inch plasma, I saw it as an opportunity to change the way we used our house. As much as no one likes to admit it, you live in the room where the television is. And...Lydia SomervilleDecorating in my sleeptag:typepad.com,2003:post-484982322008-04-16T13:23:51-07:002008-04-23T09:59:23-07:00I do my best decorating in my sleep. That’s when I solve the niggling problems of disfunction that plague my house but don’t impede activity enough to warrant immediate correction. Like furniture arrangement, or a stuck drawer, or a storage...Lydia Somerville