This Old Crack House

From log house to farmhouse. Farmhouse to townhouse. Townhouse to apartment house. Apartment house to crack house. Crack house to our house. Our house to our home.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

It's Like "The Shining"

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Have you ever seen "The Shining"? You know, where the words " Redrum " keep appearing on the walls? Well, it's happe...
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Sunday, November 27, 2005

Disaster Thwarted!

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The temperature dropped below freezing on Friday. I stopped by the house to check the condition of the third floor plumbing and found it had...
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Thursday, November 24, 2005

Todays mistake

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I made a mistake this morning. I asked Deborah to trim my hair. I mean, how hard could it be? I handed her the clippers and said "short...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005

The Partinization of my window.

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The renter who lived here in 2001 when we bought this place had the surname of "Partin". His first name is grafittied (is that a w...
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Friday, November 18, 2005

Giving Thanks this week

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Did you know that had the South won the Civil War we would not have a Thanksgiving Holiday? Lincoln declared a national Thanksgiving holiday...
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Monday, November 14, 2005

One last look.

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Take one last look at the parlor before I cover the walls with joint compound. I wouldn't want to deprive the world of one last opportun...
Saturday, November 12, 2005

Messing with your minds.

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A couple of weeks ago I installed a tracking counter on this blog. Since then I have noticed that when I post to the blog I get between 120 ...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Stripping Paint from Metal

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We all know how to strip paint from wood. (Well, if you have been reading these houseblogs for a while you would know.) Have you ever tried...
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Sunday, November 06, 2005

ROTFL

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This morning we had a brief conversation. Deborah shouts down the stairs "Would you like to make a quick trip to Home Depot?" Me; ...
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Saturday, November 05, 2005

Never under estimate old time ingenuity.

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I have the daunting task of lining 7 chimneys. None will get done until spring at this point because of the likely chance of it freezing in ...
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