PART ONE         I told Mark to go ahead! I am hoping the octagon finial will be ready to pick up when the turret finial is ready. And I am counting the days!!!!!!!!   PART II        

              One panel though, as I had it in my hands, and was standing on the ladder, split in two. I FREAKED OUT. Small pieces instantly started falling away. I instinctively grabbed at the panel like one would a baby falling, just pulled everything tight to my chest, and…

    When new, the house did not appear to have hardly any downspouts. Almost all the gutters fed into each other. So, the turret gutter drains into the north gutter, which wraps around the house to become the east gutter, which wraps around the house to become the south gutter. Only then was there…

  Recently, I did a post about repairing the turret finial. I could just paint the finial and put it back in place. I could. But just can’t. So I asked Mark from WF Norman to give me a quote on repairing the egregious issues. Today he got back with me. About $1200. Gulp. Mark…

        UPDATE: After doing this post I realized that the suicidal window is NOT the reborn window pictured above. The reborn window is one of the two adjacent windows!    

The previous owner of the Cross House stripped the exterior of paint. This was a factor which weighed heavily in my buying the house. As I continue painting the Great North Wall, I find that there is more old paint than I encountered on the Great West Wall. This paint is like old scabs on…

              Mark wrote: “We have to make sure your old finial is structurally sound enough to go back up on the roof. Sometimes these old finials are held together by much more than their last paint job.” I replied that the finial seems quite sound, actually. It has an interior…

        (It is possible that none of the above is true. Perhaps Kelly from Old House Dreams graciously participated in this silliness, and photoshopped my finial on Amy’s house. Amy, and her husband, Doug, have their own blog about their own fabulous old house. The above image does NOT reflect how their…

Yesterday, I did a post about the intergalactic transmitter on top of the Cross House turret. Would you like to se it up close?           My plan was to clean up the transmitter, repair what I can, paint it, and then have it reinstalled. One cannot really see all the issues…

      It is obvious what happened. ALIENS FROM THE PLANET ZOT TOOK IT! Wow! Right, I know! I have long suspected that the finial was, in actuality, an intergalactic transmitter. And I now realize that it must have stopped working (a broken krypton fuse?), so the Zot aliens must have taken it to…