Neighbors, Drainage, AirBnB and Guns: Part 2
The last post detailed some of the craziness that has to do with living up here: namely a particular resident…
Category: Update
Neighbors, Drainage, AirBnB and Guns: Part 1
Recently there was an article in Bloomberg about the many efforts of AirBNB to silence any reports of crimes committed…
Birds and Windows
People in glasses houses, besides not throwing stones, also need to find ways to mitigate the needless avian deaths caused…
“New” Desk
Still working through the backlog of images and stories, but this, unlike the last multi-post saga, is a relatively quick…
Related to the Great Room: Kitchen Touch-ups
While painting the great room, one extra thing our painter tackled for us was painting a few of patched areas…
Making the Great Room Great — Foot Notes on Molding
Perhaps my favorite detail in the great room is the very subtle change in the molding. Backing up a bit…
Making the Great Room Great — Step Nine: Ambient Lighting
In addition to deleting the sconces in the great room, Agent Smith got creative and ordered some coloring changing strip…
Chacha Mucha
The original deal for the property included an old 40″ riding mower that had seen better days. Underpowered, top-heavy, and…
Making the Great Room Great — Step Five: Finding Furniture
During the first few years that we were living here there was much discussion about what sort of furniture we…
A bit of sad news.
The other night I was doing some research as I was thinking of writing a sort of summary post about…
Last Stop: Zurich
The primary reason for traveling was to attend the wedding of friends in Zurich so on after four days in…
On to Paris
Soon enough we were back in London after two lovely days up north visiting family. We then boarded a Eurostar…
Inanimate Birds
While there is still plenty of house/land stuff to keep us busy, sometimes it’s nice to have a scheduled activity…
Quick Beaks and Quick Fixes
One of the reoccurring issues we’ve experienced has nothing to do with the ineptitude of the previous owners but instead…
The wee gopher snake
Carrying on from the last post concerning stuff under our house: something that got posted to my Instagram feed but…
January Aerial Video
A high up tour of Purgatory as well as details on the recent big storm and resulting damage.
Light under the house….
Back when we did the re-insulation project in the crawlspace we knew we wanted to do a bit more. The…
End of 2020 Video
As is custom, although a few days late, I finally put together our end of year video. Hope you enjoy!