by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 5, 2007 | HousePosts
For a wedding While the housework work has gone on (a fitting end to summer) I tripped off to Tennessee for a couple of days to visit friends and see their son, who I knew as a baby, get married. Jesse Alvey and Paige Barnett were married at Dyer Observatory in...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 25, 2007 | HousePosts
Actually, he was just crawling down the stairs… We were sitting down to dinner last night when two of the kids screamed and ran like mad into the kitchen. “What’s up?” we asked. “Snake on the stairs!” they replied. So we ran to the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 24, 2007 | HousePosts
And washing away the sins of the past… If you think your past won’t catch up with you, think again. Two years ago, when we finished the house, I had put down some nice new mahogany decking with the full intention of sealing it before the end of the summer....
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 23, 2007 | HousePosts
Or what a way to spend a week of vacation… You may recall that some months ago we purchased some reclaimed Douglas Fir porch posts. The posts, which we had milled at a full 6 x 6 were to be used to replace the rather scrawny 4 x 4 posts (see the picture to the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 14, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts, Writing
Or a misguided fear of a dangerous mind… I was intrigued (or maybe that’s incensed) recently by an essay in Newsweek about The Dangerous Book for Boys—an Amazon bestseller and a book that my nine-year-old son, since receiving it for his birthday less...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 5, 2007 | HousePosts
Even strikes fear onto the hearts of those who have completed a project… We spent our 4th of July cleaning house and planning for our upcoming vacation. While I was performing a much needed clean to my closet in our bedroom I was also listening to a recent...
