by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 11, 2004 | HousePosts
Time keeps on tickin’ tickin’ into the future (meanwhile, we dwell upon the past.) So… there’s a rather large gap between the December 3rd post and the February 9th post. There’s also quite a lot that took place within those couple of...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 10, 2004 | HousePosts
Early is good. Darkness is not. Well in what has been a long string of hurry-up-and-waits, we had an early arrival yesterday. A surprise visit from an unlikely source. We’re still moving things from the house-to-be-rebuilt to the house we live in now. We’d...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 9, 2004 | HousePosts
Blogshead Revisited It’s been awhile, but it’s not for a lack of wanting to write or for a lack of actual activity taking place around the destruction and rebuilding of the house. Unfortunately, the software I was using to blog this mess was a bit of a...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 3, 2003 | HousePosts
Where the end is here but hasn’t come yet So, we’re two weeks and one rather large holiday past our variance and yet there’s still no building permit in our hot little hands. I imagine that it should be here soon, but it would be great if it were...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 18, 2003 | HousePosts
Where we tell why I have no fingernails Third on the agenda and with some (understandable) resistance on the part of my neighbor, the City of Beacon Zoning Board of Appeals granted our variance this evening; all with very little fanfare. I spent about 5 minutes before...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 17, 2003 | HousePosts
7:30 PM, Beacon City Hall. The meeting we’ve all been waiting for. The meeting where the city tells us whether we can get a variance to build or not. Hold breath. Cross fingers. Pray. Pick up building permit…...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 31, 2003 | HousePosts
No permit required So this is how the work begins. Tuesday Absolute Tree Care will arrive and begin to remove the (very) few trees that will need to be knocked down in order to dig the foundation and build the house. They will also be cleaning up all fallen trees,...
