every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in Outside on Apr 2nd, 2008
Our house this morning, 7:34 am.
I am just running Cleo out when I turn and snap a picture of our dirt. A truck pulls up and the driver watches me, but short-shorts girl across the street doesn’t bat an eye.
Walking that dog with a camera again. What-ever!
Since we moved in on December 15, the [...]
Posted in Inside, Let's Eat, New Old House, Outside on Dec 7th, 2007
Planning a move-in date is about reliable as a shuttle launch. With recent snow and freezing rain, what would the weather hold? All these contractor delays - would we still be sitting around at controls? Were we ever in control?
The second move-in date was a frozen bust. Here is the house:
And [...]
It’s the golden hour in Lawrence,
and everywhere I turn
leaves are falling with abandon
in the shades of autumn’s burn.
At our old house, fall was magic
but past a maple foot or two
the swearing flowed like syrup
and the leaf blower always blew.
This year we’re in an apartment
with a bored and grumpy pup
and though we wish our lawn was [...]
Posted in Outside on Oct 29th, 2007
We’ve learned that in house building there is action, there is comedy, there are tears…and there are lulls. During these downtimes you find yourself wishing, hoping, begging for something to happen. Anything. Preferably something big.
The painters were patiently, methodically priming everything in our house, but it was just white noise. It was [...]
Posted in New Old House, Outside on Oct 16th, 2007
In one of the oddest moves in homebuilding history, we’re living in our builder’s house.
Actually an apartment in our builder’s house. He and his family have an enormous Victorian home - eight beautiful chimneys! So enormous that part of it is divided into apartments. And until our house is finished, we are [...]
