April 1, 2007

putting up a picket fence

After making the rounded pickets last weekend, we were able to get a good run of the fence put together yesterday.

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March 29, 2007

little purple flowers

The abandoned house next door is in that first nice blush of spring; it is all down hill from here.

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March 25, 2007

tommy the cat

Now that Key-Key is back outside, we've attracted a new scruffy boy cat that one of us has decided looks like a "Tommy".

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March 22, 2007

ladder abuse

As it gets to be working-on-a-ladder-season around here again, let us all take a moment and a deep breath and consider what not to do.

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March 15, 2007

now with a shed

The man came and built our new shed this week.

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everything is coming up green and pink

Almost 2 years ago, we planted 2 thundercloud plums out front. Hinting towards spring, they've bloomed this week and some random bulbs have started to sprout.

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March 11, 2007

key-key goes back outside

The "bring the outside cat inside experiment" has failed miserably, unless having everything that one owns peed on by a cat is considered a success. Key-key is an outside cat again.

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March 7, 2007

that many tools do not belong in the kitchen

We've ordered a toolshed. Hopefully it won't be too large or too small.

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February 6, 2007

damn frozen pipes

We congratulated ourselves for not getting our pipes frozen last night, having dripped faucets all over the house. As the pipes, have never frozen during the daytime, we turned the drips off when we left for work this morning. Bad idea...

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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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November 3, 2006

tax abatement deadline notice

We received the notice in the mail a few days ago that our final application for the real estate tax abatement is due by November 15.

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October 16, 2006

2 recent house dreams

Thre is, I think, residual house anxiety in here somewhere...

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October 6, 2006

HGTV show looking for Richmond homeowners

HGTV's "If Walls Could Talk" is looking for homeowners from the Richmond area to be featured on the show. If you have renovated a historic home and made any amazing discoveries, HGTV wants to talk to you. For more info., please contact research coordinator, Jenna Friederich at (804) 712-3146 or by email jfriederich@highnoonentertainment.com.

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August 2, 2006

either/or

The heat index is 100+ degrees and, to make deadline, you have to either work on siding or install insulation -- which do you choose?

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July 29, 2006

on buying siding

We've been buying siding one pickup load at a time, and this is ok.

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July 23, 2006

rain

We were supposed to start working around the corner from last week's wall, but the weather isn't cooperating. We did manage to get some of the siding pulled and replaced in a few dry hours, but not nearly what was on the schedule.

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July 17, 2006

a large pink wall

After finally being able to find the right shade of pink, we put the first coat on the partially-resided back wall of the house.

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July 11, 2006

plus/minus one cat

Soon after we got the house, a litter of kittens was born in the crawlspace. Being fixed and fed, a few have stuck around and even attracted other wayward cats. We seem to have a new one this summer...

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July 8, 2006

pink is the new ghetto brick

We've put up 2 pink patches on the recently beautified section of the back wall of the house so that we can start nailing down the color for the house

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July 7, 2006

what is this plant? (#2)

We've been in an epic battle with this weed all summer and we do not know what to call it.

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July 3, 2006

the first siding of the season

This summer WE WILL get the house painted. Having finished pulling shingles, we now have to fix some of the aged siding.

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June 26, 2006

for benches or something

We've scavenged two enormous pieces of wood that was discarded from the conversion of Southern Stoveworks.

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June 16, 2006

during which a marsupial enters the house

Upon returning home from dinner we found a freakin' opossum in the upstairs hallway tonight.

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