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Friday, March 18th, 2005
posted by K | filed under History, Mysteries | 2 Comments
Oh boy, oh boy! I finally accessed the Sanborn fire insurance maps and found our little casa! Our house was built in 1902 (duh), so I expected our house to be on the 1903 and 1909 maps of Eutaw. Unfortunately, the early maps cut off directly across the street from our house. How sucky is [...]
Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Our local Sherwin-Williams paint store had a huge 50-percent off sale for three hours Tuesday night. Thank goodness we got a flier in the mail about it, or we would’ve missed this bit of good luck. I spent an hour and $187 there. Everything I bought was 50 percent off, including 4 gallons of primer, [...]
posted by K | filed under Tours | 1 Comment
I made an interesting discovery yesterday at the Tuscaloosa Public Library. I went there to look up the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps (as mentioned on Fixer Upper) but got distracted looking at books about Greene County. As I was browsing a book I’ve already looked through, I noticed something I had overlooked before because it [...]
Monday, March 14th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Tours | 2 Comments
We took a Sunday afternoon drive to tour the ring of small towns surrounding ours. South to Demopolis, east to Uniontown, north to Marion, west through Greensboro and back home. These towns are all known for their old houses, too, and we got an eyeful. Of the towns, D was most charmed by Demopolis, the [...]
Saturday, March 12th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Crafty, Exterior | 6 Comments
Another weekend, another day of work on the house. This morning we cleaned out and organized the main room of the workshop in the backyard. When we moved, we basically just chunked all our stuff from the old workshop in there and forgot about it. But I’ve been thinking about getting back to work on [...]
Friday, March 11th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Pets | Leave a Comment
Lately, Henry has been expressing his love for old houses by napping on the latest issue of Old House Journal. Admittedly, this cat seeks out anything paper or plastic to nap on, but I prefer to believe he has a special affinity for old house publications. The cats do love this house. It is more [...]