by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 20, 2004 | HousePosts
The weatherman is NOT your friend… So when was the last time YOU found the weather mavens to be correct about the weather for one week straight, hmmm? (Think of the vacations you’ve planned using the Farmer’s Almanac or the beach day you planned...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 18, 2004 | HousePosts
Actually, it was an entire family… Some friends of ours caught wind of the fact that tomorrow is demolition day, so this evening we got a little call that went something like this: “Hey, C_____ read the web site today and said that the house is supposed to...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 18, 2004 | HousePosts
As do two dump trucks and a spot-weld It was 50º on Monday when I ripped out the final pieces of the old house that I wanted to keep for posterity, sale, or use elsewhere. 50º, by my standards, is bloody summer weather. (I wear shorts at 40º.) The sun was...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 13, 2004 | HousePosts
To a fallen friend We had to make a pretty tough decision today. During the process of designing this house we’ve made every effort to retain as many trees on the property as possible. We’ve done a great job of that, but we found out today that we had to...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 2, 2004 | HousePosts
More fits and burps and jerks. No starts It’s probably to be expected. It’s the way of the world. Red tape. Bureaucratic hoo-haw. The flypaper of the human condition. I have subs waiting in the wings. Champing at the bit to be correct. Ready to burst the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 28, 2004 | HousePosts
Let the building begin! 7:30 am EST, Beacon, NY Steven H. Cohen, Esq. arrived early this morning with manual labor on his mind. The end result? One heckuva shed to hang the building permit on and, perhaps, to store a couple of unused clous. All good stuff. And thanks...
