Senendipity Doo!

Annie's Cheddar Bunnies

You know how particular I am about what type of bunny I bring back to The Bunny Bungalow. Well these are perfect! I wish I were the Annie in the product name but I'm not, although I do bake bunny cookies to serve to guests. I cannot believe that Tall Husband found these cute cheddar bunnies for parties at The Bunny Bungalow! They are delicious and I plan to serve them to guests with a good French Cabernet Sauvignon (only our friend Nancy will appreciate the international humor in such a combination).

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DWR+Fog

The mini catalog from Design Within Reach arrived today. I was delighted to find inside Fog Linen items for the cook. Japanese designer Yumiko Sekine has an obvious reverence for the beauty of rustic simplicity. Click on over and have a look at Fog Linen Work Clothing at Selvedge's. These clothes are purity made tangible. Looking at them, you come to realize the wisdom of calling them Fog; nothing could be easier or more delightful to slip into.

Houston Heights This Saturday Night

Redbud Gallery
303 West 11th Street, Houston Texas

Brian Maguire: "The Good American"
Opening: September 6, 2008; 6-9 pm.

Paul Kittelson: "Modern Conveniences"

G Gallery Opening: September 6, 2008, 6-9pm

Show Dates: September 6-23, 2008
301 East 11th Street
Houston, Texas

See you there!

Off to See the Wizard

My left eye.

This morning I'm off to see the Wonderful Wizard of Eyes (Stephen C. Pflugfelder, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine here in Houston.) A month ago he performed very successful surgery on my right eye and now it's my left eye's turn.

So, I'll see you later...really see you.

Warning: This is Not a Pretty Site

Unfinished houses: The house on the left and the one on the right were begun in 2006 and are not yet completed. Construction on the house in the middle was begun this year and is progressing slowly.

There are no longer Realtor's signs on the property, just the ones above.

Missing House Parts

There are missing doors and windows, leaving the property open to weather and vagrants.

Above ground water pipes are a navigational hazard.

More invitations to vagrants, whom the neighbors say they frequently see at night.

Piles of garbage that beget more garbage.


2203, 2205 & 22o7 Rutland Street in Houston Heights

Construction on two of these houses was begun in 2006 yet they have not been completed. Progress is slow on the middle house that was begun earlier this year. There is no apparent security, so vagrants have been seen coming and going at night. Garbage is in piles around the property. This is not a pretty site and is the antithesis of the construction site in a previous posting about 2125 Yale. Ownership information can be found through a search at HCAD.org.

Quirky Tag

I've been tagged by Elizabeth at Gossamer Wings to write six quirky things about myself.

How to play

1. Link the person you tagged.

2. mention the rules

3. Tell six quirky, yet boring, unspectacular details about yourself.

4. Tag six other bloggers by linking them.

5. Go to each person's blog and leave a comment that lets them know they've been tagged.

Please only play if you really want to and haven't done this already.


Here are my quirky things.

1. I rarely watch television.

2. I always mess up a joke. My family members tell me that my mess up's are frequently funnier than the original jokes.

3. I hate smoked salmon. In order to eat it and not offend my friend, I would get drunk on Aquavit and cover the salmon with bundles of dill whenever she served the wretched stuff. Now that I can no longer have alcohol, I don't know what I'll do the next time she invites us to over. Borrow a cat to take to dinner?

4. I cry when I hear bagpipes. They sound so beautiful and mournful.

5. If I find a shoe style I like, I buy a pair in black and a pair in brown. More than once I've looked down at my feet in public and found that I had on identical shoes, except one was brown and one was black.

6. I listen to the radio before I fall asleep (I use ear phones so that I do not keep Tall Husband awake.) Once I fell asleep listening to a call-in show on which a farmer and his son were describing aliens who had visited their farm and beamed up their cows. Upon waking in the wee hours, I mistook my new floor lamp for an alien being and nearly had a heart attack. O.K, I was groggy but what's that farmer's excuse!?


I will tag:

Carolina: Carolina Eclectic

Courtney: Inside the Loop

Kelly: Home in the Heights

Tara: Design on Post

Jay Lee: Bald Heretic

Grapeshot/Odette: Reading Proust in Foxborough

New Blog

Barcelona Chair (1929) Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; at DWR, Houston, Texas

My new blog, My Ranchburger, is named after my other home, a late fifties haunted (more about that later) ranchburger in Houston, Texas. I wanted a place in which to post about what I call modern minimalism.

In both of my homes many of the furnishings are from the early twentieth century (either original or reproductions of designs from that period.) In The Bunny Bungalow, most pieces are arts & crafts antiques or reproductions from Stickley; whereas, the pieces at My Ranchburger are modern, such as Le Corbusier or Marcel Breuer designs (reproductions from Cassina). These seemingly disparate styles surprisingly have in common the time period in which their designs were originally produced. With arts & crafts, the designers were looking backward, to a time when things were handcrafted. The designers of modern style, however, were looking to the future, so embraced industrial production. In spite of having been conceived in the same time period, the two styles seem to be in opposition to one another, yet they have in common a minimalist purity. Therein lies the reason a minimalist heart can love both styles.