by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 10, 2007 | Beacon Dispatch, Writing
Just in time for the political hi-jinx season, and after a brief hiatus, the Beacon Dispatch is back… on the web. We haven’t found a good way to get the paper back out in print, but the Dispatch is now redesigned and back on the web in a fashion...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 18, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts
Am I buggin’ you? I don’t mean to bug ya. Bono-Silver and Gold I’ve been off on a tangent of late. A tangent that started when the City fathers and mothers of my fair town determined that it was necessary to cut down more than 50 trees on our Main...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 7, 2007 | HousePosts
Or it does… but it’s not with the kind of payoff you’d like to receive… Started sanding the porch after all the posts were up and wow… it sure doesn’t pay to put off until tomorrow what you can do today.The majority of the porch,...
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...
