We have in the past posted photos from around our neighborhood, which people seemed to like. We’ve found an easier way to share our pictures, though, through a neighborhood photo group on flickr. If you like old houses in all sorts of conditions, you might like check it out.

A recent swap with has landed us what looks to be an amazingly useful book.

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Sometime soon, we’re going to need a tool shed. In a move away from anything old or having that particular kind of character, we’re planning on building something that will require minimal fiddling to have standing and solid, but won’t be a plastic eyesore.

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Six months after opening the last door downstairs, we’ve opened the last nailed-shut door upstairs.

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The balusters on our front porch are all long gone, replaced by sturdy if not attractive 2×4 rail. We’re starting the process of fixing this by putting in for a quote on what it would cost to get the balusters turned.

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We put up part of a privacy fence and mooshed most of what was the front yard into the back.

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We went on a tour of a contemporary house designed by architect Robert Stewart. The house overlooks the north bank of the James River and the canal and is for sale for price for which you could have bought merely 7.85 of our house (ie not quite an entire city block).

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We’ve recently been turned onto this renovation on St. James Street in Historic Jackson Ward. Our next house will be a brick house.

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We’ve had great experiences visiting some of the nearby smaller&older cities around the region (like Petersburg, Virginia and Wilmington, North Carolina) and checkin’ out their old houses and urban areas. We went to Hopewell, Virginia, over the weekend looking for something similar but either it just wasn’t there or we missed it entirely…

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We’ve bought a balustrade to replace our missing hallway balustrade upstairs. Now we have to find time to install it…

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