Today I started removing the paint from the woodwork in the front bedroom. With the heat gun the paint just LEAPED off the wood. I swear I heard it whimpering, “I surrender!” on its way to the floor.

After I removed the paint in the bedroom, I went downstairs to spray some paint […]

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This discovery of pieces of clothing belonging to some previous owners of my house prompted me to look up which family was living here during the 1930s and 40s.
According to my research (available in PDF form here and here) the family living here at that time was Louis A. Halden, his wife Delta, and their […]

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Turns out we DID have a frozen pipe inside the house, and boy do I feel silly for not having found it!  Brandon had someone from the water company come test our pressure at the meter.  They said the meter was fine, so we must have a frozen pipe inside the house.  When I took […]

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I’m a big fan of the website Timothy McSweeney: Curses With Pox, Not Plague. It’s a creative writing website.
My friend Dan the Librarian told me about an entry on the site called, “An Open Letter to the Man Who Installed the Carpet in 1974 for the Previous Owners of the Home We Just Bought.”
I’ve thought […]

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I’m cranky.  This morning we woke up to find we have no water running to the house.  We heard from the water company that there was a main break somewhere on the east side and that the water should be back on in a couple hours.  Many hours later it was not.  I called the […]

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