archive for September, 2005
September 9, 2005
time suck
Summer is over and suddenly our free time is just gone. Grad school and the new teaching job started this past week, so it looks like the house will be on hold for a little while.
September 11, 2005
Wilmington, North Carolina
We went to a wedding in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., this past weekend. Like moths to a flame, we were drawn to the nearby historic downtown and houses of Wilmington…
September 15, 2005
Richmond: It Sucks Less
You can’t separate the house from the neighborhood, or the neighborhood from the city…
September 17, 2005
1104 North 20th Street
We’ve fallen for another house nearby, a small and wasted Victorian that sits right on the projects.
September 24, 2005
towards having a more level floor
The floor joist under the wall between the kitchen and bathroom has sagged several inches over the years. Fixing this is one of the projects that we have to do before it gets cold out, so that we can replace the missing bathroom floor.
September 25, 2005
digging a hole under a house
Having just yesterday put up temporary support walls under the house, today we dug a hole and poured the concrete pad.
September 27, 2005
sidework
In a straight barter for a drawing, I’ve made a website for Four Winds Landscape Design.
September 29, 2005
An Open Letter to the Squirrel Trying to Chew Its Way Through My Roof
If you have squirrels and old roof, you might get a real kick out of William Sawalich’s An Open Letter to the Squirrel Trying to Chew Its Way Through My Roof over at McSweeney’s. We had some creature living in the ceiling our first winter in the house and it about drove us mad.
