Before. After.
My online vintage lighting store. My online vintage lighting store.
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My online vintage lighting store. I’m always listing lights for sale. You can stay in touch via my Facebook page. My online vintage lighting store.
Continue ReadingThe Other House UPDATE
So, I previously introduced y’all to My Other House, in Strong City. It was in the middle of a major renovation when I purchased the Cross Properties in 2014. And all work stopped on Strong. I mean, tools were put down and gathered dust for years and years. To insulate myself from the near-daily horrors…
Continue ReadingANOTHER Very Sad Day
Yesterday, Alex Pretti was murdered by his government. My rage is incandescent. The Washington Post reports: Federal agents who were wrestling a man to the ground in Minneapolis early Saturday secured a handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of videos that captured the incident from several angles. As…
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But there is more to the story. Kendra purchased a fabulous house, likely by Charles W. Squires, and which I posted about in 2021. Kendra would like to return dignity to the long abused house so, obviously, I adored her immediately. Her new house is just around the corner from the Cross House, and…
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This is disturbing: And millions of people voted for this. My anger is off the scale.
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Scroll down… History has repeated. I am angry.
Continue ReadingTIME TRAVEL. My Fourth Apartment
I have done a series on my various apartments when I was a wee thing. These generated a lot of comments so, after much delay and ado, I present…drum roll, please…another installment! A TIMELINE February, 1975: I turn 18. Fall, 1975: I moved out of the family home and into my first apartment. Early…
Continue ReadingTHE ROSS: The 2025 Year End Report
What a doozy of a year. For two overarching reasons: Trump 2.0 Putting the Cross Properties on hiatus for a year. The Cross Properties wholly took over my life in March, 2014, and then dominated my life ever since. I cannot express enough how intense the word domination is in this respect. Then…in August…the domination…
Continue ReadingTHE HOUSE: The 2025 Year End Report
2025 ended vastly, profoundly, and spectacularly different than it began. And in a manner I wholly did not foresee. It all began innocently… AN EXPECTED GIFT Susan and Harrison Cross built the Cross House. Their granddaughter, Mary, lived with them. She was nine-years-old when the house was finished….
Continue ReadingPunching Up Crispy. Again.
In 2017, I first posted about the importance of having a crispy house. If you missed the post, you might enjoy reading it. I did another crispy post in 2020 after discovering that the eyebrow window on the north facade had gotten…oh, the horror…uncrispy. And now, in 2025, I am again chagrined to reveal that…
Continue ReadingRenovating RestoringRoss
If you go here you may note a change to this blog thingy. I replaced RESTORING YACHTS with RESTORING THE TIN HOUSE. The former never got any attention while the latter seemed to warrant its own category.
Continue ReadingWhite Tootsie
In 2018 I posted about how I had become, a number of years previously, a Crazy Cat Person when an astonishing 22 kittens came into my life kinda all at once. In 2024, I posted this: I RELINQUISH MY CRAZY CAT PERSON CROWN. This post detailed how, one by one, my 22 count had been…
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With the Cross House and Carriage House on hiatus for about a year, it seemed extravagant to keep two large side-by-side refrigerators running just to keep a half-dozen soda cans cold, and a jar of jelly (for my lunch sandwiches). I did not even know they made fridges so small. I look forward…
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