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1-Year Blog Birthday: New Old House, Simmered Till Done

Posted in My So-Called Life, New Old House on Sep 7th, 2008

One whole year?  As in photos and recipes and 260 posts about nothing, fluffy as frosting?

Impossible.

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Got a few hours? It was kind of a long year.

Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2008

Sometimes you have to start from scratch.

When I started Simmer Till Done, my old blog and blog program absolutely positively refused to let me import the old entries. That means new readers couldn’t discover our crazy year building a new old house, and old readers couldn’t revisit the highs and lows - really, who [...]

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That Sinking Feeling

Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2007

If no news is good news, then a lot of news is sure to be really, really bad.
Today we learned why they call it the “home stretch” - because finishing your new home stretches your farthest, nail-biting, migraine limits.

It is a sinking feeling.
There’s a lot of action at the house right now, and that’s good. [...]

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I Am My Own Neighbor

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 [...]

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Who Needs Florida? Lawrence Has it All

Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2007

US News & World Report has named our lovely historic town, Lawrence, Kansas, one of the Top 10 places to retire in the USA.

South Park, Lawrence, Kansas
…and I am not at all surprised. Despite my fear of tornado season, Lawrence is just about the greatest “big small town” anywhere. There’s the [...]

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