This weekend, one of my new friends, Dan, came over to help work on the house. Dan’s a librarian (as I hope to be someday!) and appreciates learning about history through learning about my house. We actually got some work done while Dan was here, but once I started on a project in […]

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Sorry for the few days’ downtime, folks.  I committed one of the classic newbie mistakes and tried to update my blogging software without running a full backup first.  Lost my formatting but that should be back soon.
Thanks for your patience.

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My mom is getting married and moving in with her fiance, so she gave most of her furniture to me! Yay furniture! Boy, I really need to get crackin’ on that living room and dining room now.

Meanwhile, I’ve been sick with a horrible sore throat and cough for a week. I was […]

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 This month’s meeting was hosted by a charming couple, Hal and York. Well, York did all the actual hosting. Their house is a late 1880s Victorian mansion in the Sherman Hill neighborhood. The people who built the house were Jewish and kept Kosher, so they had the house built with two kitchens, […]

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