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[Note: you may want to go ahead and defrost that Thanksgiving turkey, as it's been a wile since my last post.] OK, it was my good intention to live up to the list I shared "way back when". Specifically, the kitchen back splash job , aka the inspiration for starting this site. OK, so some things got in the way, starting with the landscape light project, which BTW was initially slated for summer '06 until the in-laws had delivered the jungle gym, unassembled, in eight boxes in my driveway. (There was also the whole thing about needing an electrical feed to the outside of the house, as featured in the 7.30.2007 post.) And the fine-tuning therein, adding lights (see 7.31.2007 ). For those of you visiting this site frequently, you saw the progression of the light arrangement in the sidebar, as I posted shots after each addition. It's pretty much stable now, so you can register the current shot to memory. What you can't see are the adjoining wires that still need ...

And the only prescription...well, you know the rest. And in case you don't: Click here if you need to see/hear the whole story. I see the light(s) . And it seems the current 10-light configuration for the walkways, as recommended, isn't enough. I gotta have more path lights! Specifically, 2 more along the walkway to balance things out, and 2 spotlights to project onto the house and water feature. More to come, so stay tuned. (This latest obsession is still pretty fresh.)

And nicely executed, despite much scrambling (and that it's not football season). "WTF?" You might ask. Let me elaborate. The 7.12.07 post put forth a list upon completion of the kitchen backsplash. After spending about 3-1/2 hours on Sunday (7/22) scraping thin-set between about one-third of the job with dental technician-like precision -- and that backsplash is one dirty mouth (credits to the Orbit gum pitch-gal) -- I'm choosing plenty of breathers between scrape strokes. Plus (future DIY glass tile-setters take note), I've learned there are some issues as to the type of grout to use to prevent scratching the surface of glass tile. Epoxy? Unsanded? A combination? Regardless, there's some research to do in addition to the breathers. Moreover, at a reasonable distance or in a photo , you really don't notice that there's no grout in between the tiles. So I got that going for me. So what did I do this past weekend? Something in between watching grass gr...