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In Search Of A Great Gargoyle

So we can spit like mad… As many of you may know, we have a stream that runs alongside our house. As you can also imagine, we have a pretty large roof which collects a lot of rain water during rainstorms. Right now the majority of that storm water, through a...

Delay Of Game

Delay of move day too… Just goes to show you that you can’t go anywhere until the job is 100% complete. Thursday I took off with my eldest daughter to California for my Grandmother’s memorial service. I talked with the hardwood floor guys making sure...

Death Of A Hard Drive

Thus my sudden absence… Had a small problem with my hard drive a couple of days ago. I opened up my PowerBook when I got to work one morning only to discover that my hard drive had completely crashed. Not a fun thing to be sure. I had some reasonable backups,...

Torrential Rain Brings Mysterious Guests

Which attests to the appeal of a well covered porch… Saturday brought some seriously muggy weather combined with some wickedly thunderous and rainy weather. When I arrived at the house after Saturday morning soccer I found a young couple sitting on our front...

The Rest Of The Story

The Poughkeepsie Journal posts four of five The Poughkeepsie Journal ran the fourth of five articles on our house today. I’m sure they were thrilled to be able to report that we were finally going to move in. The print version included about six photos that...

Days Of Rest

And much needed sleep… With apologies to Jane over at expirationdates, who is waiting like a Christmas-morning-girl for us to announce that we’ve closed, let me unwrap the package here and now. WE HAVE CLOSED!!! The end came last Wednesday. After two hours...