The Cross House

    And….drum roll, please…guess what is next? THE CAT FENCE!!!!!!!! THE CAT FENCE!!!!!!!! THE CAT FENCE!!!!!!!!    

On my very long list of Vital Things To Do was to install the last two downspouts. The problem is that I had no 3-inch round spouts. The other day though the man who installed the new gutters on the Carriage House texted me: “Can you use these?” Attached was an image of 3-inch downspouts….

      Earlier, I had a 6-arm gas/electric chandelier in the entry but learned that it was parlor fixture rather than entry hall. Oh, the horror. In time I learned what entry hall fixtures of the period looked like and my purchase is a perfect match. The fixture is exactly what might have been…

In 2022 I removed the brick chimney above the Carriage House kitchen. The bricks above the roof got tossed to the ground. The bricks in the attic portion were left sitting on the floor of the attic. I do not like a messy attic. But how to get the bricks out? The only option seemed…

        This small group is of vital importance to me as we have one powerful thing in common: We are all intensely interested in politics, on the same page, communicate regularly, and live in Kansas. But, most of the group did not know the others existed. I loved the idea of these…

    Later, I will even have the overhead wires removed. The new internet/phone lines will attach to the east side of the garage, then inside the garage, under the new north deck, and into the basement of the carriage house. All out-of-sight.    

  They explained the the house sagged in the middle. So, if the brown gutter went all the way to the right it would hang about 5-inches below the wood facia, and rain would just fall past it, rather negating the whole point of the gutter. We went back/forth and I came up with other…

3/4 of 2023 was a mad rush to finish the Violation Work on the Carriage House. I took few days off for eight months. Eight months. With the work completed at the end of December, I have been greatly enjoying taking a lot of days off this January. Bliss. Utter bliss. In addition, getting the…

Moving ahead in the foyer has been delayed due to a lack of water. I shut off the water two winters ago to save me some money but getting it back on proved…problematic. So, after much ado, the water was turned back on today. This is helpful as, in order to proceed with the foyer,…

Gutters are not the most scintillating of topics. Yet they are vital in protecting a building. A significant amount of damage was caused to the Cross House due to messed-up gutters and a lack of downspouts. I think…hope…I now have this under control. I have had the same problem with the Carriage House and, a…

The bone-chilling weather of late chilled my incentive. For the last week I did almost nothing on the Carriage House. I would drive into town, with the assumption that I would do some work but, upon arrival, would check that the heat was working, then feel the freezing temperature…and drive home. My old bones could…

  A few years ago I purchased from Dr. Doug trim pieces to finish the house I live in. This trim has been stacked in a hall outside my bedroom. The other day I walked past the trim and…zounds!…realized that one trim piece had an intact transom window hardware. Would this work on the Carriage…