Sorry that I stopped updating the blog, life got very hectic for a long period of time. A few months before my last post way back in 2014, w...

A real, actual post! Yes, I know it's been ages. I stopped working on the house a few years ago because I accepted a new position at wor...

Even though I have not posted anything in a while I have done some work on the house. Hopefully I can post that soon. In the meantime I th...

Well not exactly new, I found it over a year ago but am just now getting around to posting it. A few years ago I posted about a letter tha...

I am constantly researching the history of the house. A few years back I pulled all the mantles off the walls looking for things that migh...

We've been doing a lot of work on the house lately. One of the projects has been the upstairs hall. This is what it looked like when w...

We've talked about getting a whole house fan for a long time. On cool mornings I open up the house and use a few box fans in the doors t...

Historical Accuracy is very important to me in restoring my house. So when JC posted a comment about my picket fence being historically accu...

What started out as a quick trim-up of the bushes turned into a huge project. The hedge I was trimming is the Boxwood hedge on the north s...