CH: Day 104
For now, the turret door will get painted white, and the door frame will get painted in the dark gray. The door will be removed when the porch roof is built, and the wall shingled over. Inside the turret the three windows are obviously a ‘bay’. Putting a 4th window in place on the…
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I have had four calls. The first caller only spoke Spanish. The next two spoke some broken English. In a town where 1/3 of the population is Mexican this should not be surprising. So, I am going to add another spec list written in Spanish. Caller #4 lives a block away and wants a…
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Last month I got a blood test to see if I had lead poisoning. I did. Fuck. Normal is 3.5. I had 13.4. Today I was 11.6. Ross happy.
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My online vintage lighting store. So, y’all know how much Kenny enjoys scouring Facebook Marketplace. He’s good at finding things not just for the Cross House, but vintage lights as well. I always pay him a finder’s fee. Recently, he forwarded a late 1950s brass chandelier. Such chandeliers were wildly popular in the 1950s, 1960s,…
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Got two calls today. One caller spoke only Spanish. As I could offer no reply, they hung up. Another caller wanted to know the price. Now, in order to get my phone number they had to stop by the car, walk over to it, and take down (or photograph) the posted phone number. Adjacent…
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Today…at last! at last!…I got my 2010 Town & Country presented for sale. In 2010, the car had a base price of $28,425. There were $7,700 worth of options added, for a total of $36,125. In addition, I installed a tow hitch, and a NOVERO audio system. I have poured almost $4800 into getting…
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Today, the vinyl siding was delivered. Yes, I wrote that. But tell nobody! It will be our dark secret. The revised plan is to use the…choke…siding on the north wall, the east, and the north kitchen wall. On the latter I had planned to restore the area around the kitchen door, and paint…
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