Episode 239 || August Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Another calendar page has come and gone. Join us for a good, old-fashioned chat about the books we read in August. Annie read: + The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff + Frankly in Love by David Yoon + The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth + Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers by Anna James + The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt + The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall + The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Chris read: + God by Reza Aslan + The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like Chris's ranking of Taylor Swift songs, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	So at the beginning of this summer, I consider summer Memorial Day to Labor Day.
0:05.9	Yes.
0:06.3	I understand it's still 120 degrees here.
0:08.4	We don't need to talk about it.
0:10.4	To me, we are entering fall.
0:13.2	So Jordan and I, despite my crazy summer, bit off some DIY projects Memorial Day weekend.
0:19.4	But because the internet lies and so does HGTV,
0:23.6	we finished them around Labor Day. Yeah, that's how things actually work. I just want to be clear.
0:30.0	So I want to share a couple of things we did because I think you'll appreciate them. I'll show you
0:34.5	some pictures. But in our bathroom, we have one bathroom in our home,
0:39.3	which is fine. It has brought Jordan and I very, it's brought me and Jordan closer together.
0:44.1	I'm sure. But it had a pedestal sink. And I got it in my head. I know the pedestal sink was chosen
0:50.3	because that bathroom is the size of my thumbnail. But I wanted some storage. You wanted
0:55.0	a vanity. Yeah, and I wanted a vanity. So found one at Lowe's, measured it, whatever. We painted
1:01.1	the bathroom over Memorial Day. Please imagine, again, a bathroom the size of your thumbnail,
1:06.3	two people with step ladders trying to paint. It was a real journey. That's a one person job.
1:10.8	It's a real journey. It's a one person job except half the fun of DIY is listening to music and visiting with one another, etc. Okay, so we did it. Might have gotten high off paint fumes. It's fine. So then we uninstall the same. I'm like, we can do this because the vanity just slides over. Right. Okay,
1:28.2	that is true. There is, there is plumbing involved. Okay, we do that. Well, then our wall has a large
1:38.3	baseboard, a thick baseboard. So now nothing is flush. Right. So it looks very dorm room-esque. Right. And water can go behind because nothing is flush and able to be cocked to the wall. Okay. Well, whatever, we can't do that. So we move on to like other projects. We paint the bottom cabinets of the kitchen. And not just remove the baseboard? We did not want to remove the baseboard.
2:02.2	I was like, I trust somebody else to do that.
2:04.7	I don't actually trust us to do that.
2:06.5	Okay. Fair.
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