Weirdo Things Are Happening

Perhaps Mother Nature has hear about the internal fouls in Casa Katsaros. Perhaps she wanted to chip in and add to the chaos. In the form of garlic, of course.  

So the garlic I planted back in winter looked a little sad, so I decided to check her out. 

Um, is this normal? It's like a colony of onions, not a bulb of garlic. 

Has anyone had this happen to them? Did I prematurely pick my garlic, and this is totally normal? Or is this, like, some mutant weirdness and the whole batch is a failure?

Floor Fail

You know when you have one of those weeks, that everything you touch turns to dirt. Well hello week of dirt, I have finally met you! Let us explore what not to do when it comes to 81 year old floors, or , er...wood floors in general. 

Swiffer Wet was the culprit in this scenario. A Swiffer Wet was left on the wood floor over night. The wet pad saturated the wood leaving a rather dark spot. So we figured we would lightly buff it out....

Ahhh! My heart dropped. Joey's heart dropped. I don't know what we expected. We were sanding the top layer of our floor off. Duh. It was going to be raw. But grey? Eww...

So the next step? Stain it, right? Color match the preexisting wood and it will look perfect, right? Right? I kept telling myself that. So we bought a small can of Minwax and color matched it to our preexisting floor...

So with a brush Joey lightly painted the stain on the raw wood, and noticed it looked awfully dark. 

So we panicked again, and wiped wiped wiped. And now we are back to having a dark spot.

And with that we bring you our week of major fails! Check back this week to see what not to do when you are painting curtains, garlic growing gone terribly wrong, and a leaky window. After that we will be back with a bunch of stuff done right!

This Weekend Was For The Birds!

How was your weekend? Did you get a chance to watch Secrets from a Stylist and Design Star? I was over-indulging in my two favorite shows for sure. Super excited to see Emily do a bedroom, and fell in love with the $11K headboard in the first look. I am also not quite sure how I feel about the new picks from Design Star. I knew I totally loved David, Emily and Antonio from day one....not really feeling anyone right now from this season. We'll see. We will see.

So yea, this weekend! We went to Long Island to this park we go to every year to welcome back the Ducks and Geese from Winter. We were super late this year, yea we know. Much to our surprise, Gerry Park looked like a train wreck. This park was AMAZING just last year. Now.....let the picture tell the story....

So you can see everything is super overgrown and hard to walk to. And it was swampy. Gross. Totally bummed us out. None the less, we had to feed our feathered friends, and as soon as we whipped out the bread bag, they came flocking!

How super cute is that little guy above? I wanted to take him home. After feeding the ducks and geese, we did what we always do, as per tradition, and went to The Jolly Fisherman where we dined amongst 65+ year olds and laughed our booties off before we headed back to Westchester. 

When we returned home, I decided to pick the raspberries we have growing in our side yard. Last year I was too late and all the birds snatched them up!

I was excited that I found a bunch of great tasty berries. Joey called them poison berries. 

I didn't have enough to make a pie, but I am very much going to experiment with some mini doughnuts and these bad boys. In the spirit of instant gratification,  I did use them as garnish in some cheese plates I made for us later that night. 

We totally did some DIY homey stuff this weekend, but we flopped and failed. We'll tell you all about it this week.

Have you fudged something up recently? Let us know we aren't alone!