posted by K | filed under Small Town Life | 4 Comments

If Houseblogs.net were a physical place, it might just be Eutaw, Alabama. Nowhere except online (and on football-loving college campuses) have I ever found such a community of people all obsessed with the same thing.
Maybe it’s this way in all small, historic towns, but I think we love our houses even more in Eutaw […]

posted by K | filed under Outdoors | 2 Comments

I noticed this morning that another giant branch has fallen off the old pecan tree between our house and the neighbors’. Back in March a branch broke off during a storm, but this time there was no storm.
Makes me nervous that the old girl is doomed. It’s a really big tree, and I […]

posted by K | filed under Small Town Life, Exploring | 5 Comments

Apparently having one old house in which we have completed not a single project is not enough for us. Lately, we’ve been fantasizing about - and worse than that, actually contemplating - buying and fixing up a house down the block from us.
This house, the poor dear, hasn’t been lived in for oh, say […]

posted by K | filed under Shopping Disease, Small Town Life | 5 Comments

Actually, not so “lotsa.” I bought a little less stuff and spent significantly less money at this year’s Antique Alley sale. Still, I am thoroughly pleased with my purchases and today I’m feeling as light as a fat-free biscuit since I didn’t spend a jillion dollars.
My first and favorite purchase was a medicine cabinet […]

posted by K | filed under Shopping Disease, Small Town Life | 5 Comments

If my mom had a super power, it would be bargain sniffing. She jokes that she grew up in the Depression (she’s actually a baby boomer) because she’s a bit of a cheapskate and hates to throw anything away.
Though it perturbed me in high school when she bought me a generic brand of […]

posted by K | filed under Outdoors | 6 Comments

The time of honeysuckle has past, and I’m pretty broken up about it. It seems so early in the year for the honeysuckle to already be packing it in.
Maybe it will come back for another round later in the year. Maybe the cool weather we’ve been having lately has sent it back into hiding.
Anyway, […]

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