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This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down. I read electoral-vote.com daily. They are very astute. I love their observations. But the other day they basically dismissed Biden because of his his dabate performance. I was shocked….
Continue ReadingY’all Need To Watch This
This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down. Today: Biden: I know I’m not a young man… I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to, I don’t debate as…
Continue ReadingAbout Tonight
This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down. I watched the debate tonight. If I was a low-information voter (as are most voters),…
Continue ReadingI Survived!
Last night, a strange and, no doubt, vicious creature got into my office. I’m please to report that I survived, unscathed.
Continue ReadingInching Along
In order to do this, I first had to cut some shingles to size. Then the shingles had to be shaved thin with my electric planer to match the thin profile of the 1894 siding. Today and yesterday were HORRIBLE. Hot and incredibly humid. I wilted just stepping…
Continue ReadingReturning To The Niche!
In 2019, I did a post about the “Bo Mystery light”. The light was a fabulous gas pendant featuring a serpent! However, the light was not gas/electric, which the Cross house had when new. So, me being, well, me, vexed over this historical narrative aberration and I knew the world would not…
Continue ReadingBefore/After
My online vintage lighting store. The sconces are quite large and would be ideal for a home theater, three to each side. Fabulous! My online vintage lighting store.
Continue ReadingIt’s Baaaaaaaaaack!
This project has been nagging at me for a decade. Y’all remember that the big curved glass was broken and needed to be replaced? But the window sill also needed to be replaced, AND the bottom rail on the sash. All were rotted, the only such instances on the whole house. But why?…
Continue ReadingAnother Detroit Rebirth
As I was born in Detroit (a 1957 model), I like keeping up with my birth city. For four decades the magnificent Michigan Central Station sat empty and ruined; the poster child for all that was wrong with the city. Then in 2018, Ford stunned everybody by announcing their purchase of the wholly derelict building…
Continue ReadingMaking Bo Happy
But…drum roll, please…Bo was not happy. He thought the pendant would look better without the white shade (which was not original) and a return of the original, simple gas jet. The idea that I had made Bo unhappy caused me many sleepless nights, so y’all can appreciate my great delight… Offending white…
Continue ReadingThe Thin Green Line.
The paint, clearly, did don’t match. But, I had no other green paint other than that for the exterior trim. After much ado. I realized…
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My online vintage lighting store. My online vintage lighting store.
Continue ReadingOwning the Golden Gate Bridge
It has been said that painting the Golden Gate Bridge is an endless task. You start at one end, paint across the bridge, and then start all over again back to the other end. Rinse. Repeat. Well, this is the same with an old wood house. Arriving at the house today this…
Continue ReadingMY SMILE…
…is wide.
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