posted by K | filed under Bathrooms | 2 Comments

The clawfoot tub is home! My dad picked it up for us and brought it to our house. It is now sitting in the newly cleaned-out storage building, just waiting till we can get the time to actually work on the bathroom.
It’s looking like the tub will be waiting quite a while.

I’ve been trying […]

posted by K | filed under IF | 2 Comments

We have no children, at least ones that don’t have ginger fur and a vocabulary of two words - meooow and mrrrp. But I’ve noticed our house has begun to fill the place children take up in parents’ lives. It’s the thing we talk about even when we “get away” for dinner, the thing […]

posted by K | filed under Small Town Life | 2 Comments

A chick from the Birmingham News talked to us a few weeks ago about a story she was writing on affordable old houses in the region where we live. Guess we didn’t make it into the story, but it’s still an interesting read.
We live in an area known as the Black Belt, a […]

posted by K | filed under Family & Friends, Ooh, Pretty! | 3 Comments

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at my parents’ house. D gave me a wonderfully comfy desk chair, and Mom and Dad got me an antique replica telephone (so cute!).
But the best present was from my talented sister. She created a miniature replica of our house from balsawood. It’s about 4 1/2 […]

posted by K | filed under Exploring | Leave a Comment

I have a sore throat. I stayed home sick from work, and when I felt better in the afternoon, I decided to take the opportunity to finally do some research on our house at the courthouse. It was remarkably easy to find our tax card and then look up the previous deed in a […]

posted by K | filed under Mr. and Mrs. | Leave a Comment

Yesterday we did absolutely nothing all day long. I never even changed out of my nightgown. How are we ever going to get our house stuff accomplished (and resurrect this blog) if we lay around in our pajamas all day? I don’t know.
We watched two old movies on TMC - In the Good […]

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