website archive
April 29, 2007
slow site update in progress
We’re renovating this site and things’ll be a little loosy-goosy around here for a while. After 3 years, I’ve grown to hate MovableType & so we’re moving everthing over to WordPress. Yay WordPress!
March 22, 2007
ladder abuse
As it gets to be working-on-a-ladder-season around here again, let us all take a moment and a deep breath and consider what not to do.
January 28, 2007
5 things + 1
Having been so tagged, in the spirit of the winter-dormant houseblog I’m going to punt to my short attention span blog.
September 9, 2005
time suck
Summer is over and suddenly our free time is just gone. Grad school and the new teaching job started this past week, so it looks like the house will be on hold for a little while.
July 15, 2005
busted camera
I was recharging the batteries for the camera a few days ago and one of the batteries made a popping sound and began to leak black juice.
June 30, 2005
on shingles
I was on break from pulling shingles off of the back off the house when I heard that we’d gotten a mention in an article on houseblogging in the Wall Street Journal. I’m sweaty and it is crazy hot and this is what gets attention.
February 28, 2005
surprising discoveries
HGTV’s If Walls Could Talk is currently looking for homeowners in Richmond and the surrounding areas “who have made surprising discoveries about their homes as they’ve researched and restored them”. I know this because they sent us an email looking for contacts. I’m fairly certain that this is not what they are looking for.
January 24, 2005
new house renovation links
In the year+ that we’ve been working on this house and publishing our site, we’ve run across some other great renovation sites.
June 11, 2004
Do Not Try This At Home
We got a mention in an article called ‘Web forums, blogs offer wealth of DIY knowledge’ in the North East Independent out of Rhode Island. We’re not really mentioned in any ‘wealth of knowledge’ kind of way, more of a ‘damn glad that’s not me’ kind of way — reading our site “will make you feel so much better about the projects on the list at your house”. The article quotes the entry about the mummified rats.
June 9, 2004
new format
I’ve just switched to publishing this site using Movable Type. Older words and pictures will take a little while to get back onto the site and there may be broken links.
December 31, 2003
xmas
Simply this: 5 trees, 5 colors. And for the first time in my life I live in a neighborhood served by a black Santa.
