December 2, 2006

the ugliest house that I have ever seen

We saw a house in Newport News, Virginia, today and had to go around the block to get a picture...

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December 3, 2006

a walk around the neighborhood

In what has become a yearly tradition, we walked around the area over Thanksgiving weekend with a eye for what has & has not changed in the neighborhood.

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December 18, 2006

another walk around the neighborhood

Our neighborhood holiday house tour was yesterday and there are some wonderful old houses.

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December 24, 2006

happy holidays

Our first year we only had 5 trees; this year we have 7 (but the neighborhood Santa hasn't made an appearance).

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December 28, 2006

patching holes in the plaster

We haven't taken on any large jobs over the holiday break, just patching a few of the remaining holes (that have been around long enough that we've grown used to seeing them and tend to forget that they are there.)

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press

Our neighborhood (and city)(but mostly our neighborhood) got a write-up in USA Today as an area that is "reinventing [itself]... starting to adopt tenets of the burgeoning, European-born 'Shrinking Cities' movement."

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