10.03.2014

Long Time

It's been a long time since this blog was updated. I'm sure any followers I had have left (as they should). I might start blogging again as an outlet for my genius. We shall see.

-Eli

10.06.2010

The Bathroom

Hello! I know - it has been way too long since a Hamilton posted on HwH. Not to worry, loyal readers. I have a post that is worthwhile. I give you - THE BATHROOM!

You have seen this picture before. We took it when we were doing the final inspection at the house closing. It's so ugly.

This is the new bathroom! That bright apple green is my new favorite color.

The hideous countertop that was way too big was actually new. I felt really bad when we pulled it out.

But I quickly got over feeling bad when I saw the new granite installed!

A close up of the granite. (I'm not trying to get artsy here with the soap dish. I just wanted to put the granite pattern into perspective. I'm definitely not a photographer, and that green just has a way of making everything have a green tint.)

This is the newly tiled shower. In the last post you saw how we completely ripped out all of the moldy and old drywall. Now there is a new moisture-resistant cement board shower wall with ceramic tile. I grouted!

Well, that's it for now. Maybe there will be more on HwH in the future. Also, be on the lookout for some new additions to my Etsy store. :)

xx,
Steph

7.11.2010

Yeah, I know a celebrity.

Here's an awesome write-up about a former coworker of mine. She's a star athlete. I love it.

(This isn't actually a picture of her, just another person named Sherri Peckham. The record holder is better looking than this realtor. When I googled the name, this showed up, so this is what you get.)

Stroud's world champ remembers glory days of rolling pin throwing

Sherri Salyer Peckham is a high school English teacher now, but when she was younger she was known for her ability to throw a rolling pin half the length of a football field. She has the world record in the unique sport.

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Published: July 11, 2010

STROUD — Sherri Salyer Peckham doesn't go around bragging about it, but she's a world record holder.

She threw a rolling pin farther than anybody in the world: 156 feet, 4 inches, to be precise. Peckham grew up in Stroud, though now she lives in Norman and teaches high school English in Tecumseh. Saturday she returned to her hometown for the 50th annual International Brick and Rolling Pin Throw and Festival.

In rolling-pin-throwing circles, Peckham's kind of a big deal.

Even though she's an expert pin hurler, Peckham doesn't see her accomplishment as that big of a deal.

"It was 1969,” she said of her first competition. "I was 14, and the rolling pin and brick throwing was just something that we grew up with.”

Peckham could throw the pin from here to eternity, so she made the team the first year she tried.

Peckham was always very athletic, so throwing rolling pins wasn't much of a stretch. Peckham perfected her toss on her family's land outside of Stroud.

"I practiced all the time,” she said, "That was just me. … Two to three weeks before the rolling pin tryouts, I would get out there and just throw and throw and throw.”

Her longest distance that first year was 138 feet, 11 inches. But Peckham bested herself in 1977. She threw the pin 156 feet, 4 inches — farther than anybody has thrown in competition.

Her record doesn't come up often. Other faculty members at her school know, and they sometimes tell students.

"My students … think it's dorky,” she said. "They're like, 'You threw a what?'”

A rolling pin.