Hello! Remember Me?
Yes, my posts have WAY dropped. More than ever before. Rest assured though that things are still moving ahead at the carriage house but posting pictures of taping and mudding and priming just does not seem to be very exciting. I have also been INCREDIBLY busy with my lighting business. November was insane, and I…
Continue ReadingBefore. After.
My online vintage lighting store. My online vintage lighting store.
Continue ReadingSmall Moves, Ellie, Small Moves
The finish is original: Amber shellac on pine. No stain. Now I need to shellac the other drawer!
Continue ReadingTears In My Eyes
Fifty years ago, Norway decriminalized being gay. Fifty years ago. As a 64-year-old gay man, I well remember how important it was to hide, for many decades, who I am. Well, the Norway Postal Service decided to celebrate this important 50th-anniversary with an extraordinary small film. I have never seen anything like it. With each…
Continue ReadingThe Elks Club. Emporia, Kansas
I had no idea. I did love the decoration of the club. Those gas/electric chandeliers! The table in the foreground! The patterned wallpapers! I was also interested in the brightly lighted area to the right. An atrium? My curiosity aroused, I contacted my friend Steve, who was born and raised in Emporia, and is…
Continue ReadingA Dark Day In America
This is a post about America. Please scroll down if interested. There’s zero question in my mind that if, during a Make America Great Again rally, a Black man had shot two people dead, and seriously wounded another, the same…
Continue ReadingAnother Return
The area was a mess. Radiator pipes buried in the exterior wall had burst at some point, and damaged the plaster and Lincrusta. Had the wood block been removed at that point? It the the only trim missing in the room. I never found it in the basement Aladdin’s cave. It was also unique…
Continue ReadingNew Kitty
In 2018, I did a post about the latest cat in my life, New Kitty. You might enjoy re-reading that post. Julie had found the homeless kitten, and contacted me to see if I knew of a home for the poor creature. My reply, after a deep sigh: “Bring her to me.” Thus, New Kitty…
Continue ReadingPrepare! To! GASP!
Are you sitting down? Are you wearing a seat belt? Are you holding a glass of wine? If yes to all the above… …scroll way down. …
Continue ReadingCreative Solutions
So, y’all know about the infamous green sink in the kitchen of the carriage house. A few weeks ago, we at last, at last, at last installed it… …but the original faucet had cracked and spewed out water. Quickly, a new kinda sorta possibly facsimile faucet was ordered, with an assurance that it would be…
Continue ReadingFuck Fuck Fuck. FUCK! Fuck FUCK FUCK! FUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!
You just might, from the title of this blog post, get an indication, however subtle, that ROSS IS MAD. After you finish reading the post, you, too, will be violently swearing in sympathy. I can assure you of this. But the left of the door frame? This is when Holy Hell Rained Fire…
Continue ReadingA Meow Which Changed Everything
Arriving today at the carriage house, I knocked on the door to let Cody know I was there. I have never previously knocked on the door. Cody let me in. In the kitchen was something additionally new and unexpected: a small antique table and two chairs. With Cody now moved in, the house begins a…
Continue ReadingInside!
As with yesterday, the work was not particularly time consuming or even hard. Yet…yet…I just felt demolished after. It is as if such work abuses my soul. I cannot really explain it. When all was cleaned up, even though it was early afternoon, I had an overwhelming desire to flee flee…
Continue ReadingHigh As A Kite. And Not Happy About It.
Cody does not have hot water. Because the hot water heater, which works, is not yet vented. It was vented to the original brick chimney but this is a very bad way to vent a hot water heater. The off-gassing from the heater can migrate through old mortar and kill people. And I had zero…
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