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Monday, April 24th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Hot and Cold | 7 Comments
My relationship with our triple-track aluminum storm windows is kinda rocky. It reminds me of my relationship with a boy in high school who one day I’d think was the bees knees (you know, when I was a teenager in the 1940s) and then the next day, or hour, I’d think he was the […]
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Exploring | 3 Comments
Since we had a three-day weekend, I was determined that we would break on through to the other side of this not-working-on-the-house phase, particularly in the master bathroom arena.
Either D is overwhelmed with the prospect of re-plumbing the room or he doesn’t care as much as I do about having a functioning master bathroom. […]
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Outdoors | 4 Comments
One of the projects we undertook this weekend happened on a whim. We had been crawling around under the house looking at plumbing and foundation issues (more to come on that later this week) when D found a piece of old rope and decided to do something about the hammock.
I bought the hammock at […]
Monday, April 17th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Exploring | 9 Comments
On Friday I talked D into popping the cap on the newel post, in search of blueprints, house deeds or anything to shed some light on this hodgepodge of a house and/or its former occupants.
Darwin, staying true to his usual happy-go-lucky, optimistic style, predicted the newel post would be completely empty.
In my usual style, […]
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Small Town Life | 1 Comment
Before we found our house, I fantasized about owning one of the Tudor quasi-mansions in downtown T-town, or in The Highlands, probably the most expensive-per-square-foot neighborhood in Tuscaloosa.
I did lots of calculations, trying to figure how much we’d have to save and how much we’d have to make per year before we could afford […]
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
posted by K | filed under Small Town Life | 4 Comments
Last Friday the weather people did their usual panic-inducing Storm of the Century stuff, so all the schools in our area closed early in anticipation of tornadoes. Because the kiddies would be left to wander the streets and become drug addicts and prostitutes, many businesses in town closed early to let the parents go […]