Burnt coconut scare!

Burnt Micro, originally uploaded by mrtoastey.

Lucy, god bless her, learned some things about toasting coconut flakes and how, sometimes yr. toastin' 'em? and then? when you open the toaster oven door? FLAMES BURST OUT?

Lucy's okay. Even the toaster oven's okay. The flaked coconut doesn't really exist anymore, at least not in that form.

And something like that'll make you wonder where your fire extinguisher is. Where's yours?

The legendary kitchen cabinet installation

I have been wanting to build this and put it up forever. And I'm not talking about the kitchen cabinets. That honor and gift could only come from the generous hands of John & Laura, our Kitchen Clamorers...

One day, a few months ago, Lucy and I were so very lucky to have John & Laura come over and install our kitchen cabinets. I am nothing but serious. Did I mention that they were responsible for us even having the cabinets?!? They came over and —well, see for yourself. This animation may take a minute to load. (it's 1.9 mb), but even as they were starting, I knew it had to be documented. So I put a camera on a tripod and diligently shot them every few minutes all day long.

Have I mentioned how lucky we are? Or how sterling they are?

John and Laura! We love our cabinets and we love you!!

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Ode to an Ambassador

Ode to an Ambassador

Thank you, Ambassador, for taking us culinary places
One burner places, hot plate says
A skillet, a tea kettle, and you, Ambassador
Filled our bellies for a season, too,
three if we're honest
You cooked, honest
One burner, pinching for a kitchen
In the temporary world, you were the savior
Found, Good Will, always, $10 the richer
and us so much more
You're going back now, back for more Good Will,
helping's your fate
a simple hot plate.

—on the occasion of the installation of a very fancy Jenn-Air Range, which will on a certain level never take the place of the used Ambassador hot plate that cooked many many meals prior to the existence of a real kitchen on Campsie Place

New pix of late Fall work on the Campsie place are here!

That Ol' Mick and Lucy!

Illustrator fabuloso Kenn Minter depicts the Campsie July 4th grill-a-thon! Thanks, Kenn!

Also, here's Kenn's blog.

July 4 Cookout!

C'mon over! We'll cook some stuff!

• 5pm, July 4, 2006
  
• Pot luck (side dishes)
• 239 Campsie Place (map)
  
• Music, gabbin', sittin' around, cookin', lots of etc.
• BYO beer (we got lots of the other stuff)
  

Sifting the Pix!

Hi friends and friends and friends: Lucy and I are back from the Honeymoon, we're sifting jillions of pictures and they're accumulating over at Lucy and Mick's World Wide Wed
If you've got something to share, please drop us a line or post your pictures to the Flickr Group I set up for this exact purpose!

Thanks and LOVE to everybody!

head on over!

new honeymoon material at Lucy and Mick's Wed Site. Check it out!