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Nothing like fresh WA farmer's market veggies, and New Seasons fresh pasta, with some fresh basil from our plant! Wash it down with Steven Smith Teamaker home-made Exceptional Iced Tea (and organic turbinado sugar). YUM!
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Mark has always made pizzas from scratch, even when I knew him as an undergraduate student in Wisconsin. Lovely Kristin is a gourmet pizza chef as well. We are celebrating, so we finished with Sheridan's Frozen Custard, Danish Almond Kringle, and Veuve Clicquot champagne. The pizza and salad were the stars of the show, with bouncy Maryn presiding! The climate in Boston is evil to wood. Torrential rains, frigid cold, snow drifts which bury cars, weeks of humid 100-degree days, damp mildew, etc... We decided to create an oiled-wood fence, just to see if it could survive. With the miracle of Penofin, wood can survive. With care, the wood will develop a pretty patina over time. After 3 years, our fence was mildewed and tired. I powerwashed the wood, let it dry out, got skunked by fall rain, let it dry out again, then a group of friends joined me and we refinished the wood. Much better! The powerwasher shredded some wood, and the mildew got into the oil, so we did some light sanding. Before and after sanding: I have the best friends!!  It turned out great!  Uncured organic hot dogs, ketchup, Sriracha, with a home-made Taiwanese milk tea.  So fun! Aaruhi with mommy...so cute!  This party had great food and fun friends.    There's no way to say this nicely. The water is expensive, full of lead, corrosive, and full of gunk and sand. Yes, metal chips and sand. Nearby construction is constant, and notices of water disruption/muddification are sporadic, if you get any notice at all. The result? I had 2 dead sinks, after paying $800 to fix a third sink a few months ago. This time, I did it myself. Not even a drop of water would come out. Why? Here is the inside of the faucet.  We periodically flush the sinks before using our toilets. Otherwise the gunk jams up your toilet valves, and you have to replace the insides of your toilet...which I also had to do this trip. Twice. In fact, this is how I found out my sinks were hosed. I was trying to purge gunk before it killed my toilets. Anyhow, I fixed all sinks and toilets this week. This is exactly as fun as it sounds. Those are dead toilet valves in the trash bin. One lasted not even 3 minutes before it clogged completely with gunk.  Oh, just one unlucky toilet? Botched job? Here is a new faucet after less than 120 seconds.  Thanks Cambridge and Somerville. |
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