Set aside your stereotypes

Those folks at 1402 Division are too liberal, too progressive, too blue-state, too potentially-Canadian to fly the flag, right?
Wrong-o.  Happy summer, America.  Want a Leinenkugel’s?

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Home Restoration – Argh!

That’s capitalized Home Restoration: the blog – not lowercase home restoration: the activity I have not engaged in for one solid week.   [deleted: too-harsh words for something as trivial as a houseblog aggregator.  Let's all get some Leinenkugels and drink them on my porch]
Update: Joe left a comment and e-mailed me, and he’s just as [...]

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Porch Etiquette

Filed away under: excellent advice from the Baltimore Sun.  It’s a small file.
The coincidence of economic collapse and spring in Baltimore has led to a spate of stay-at-home drinking among my circle of friends.
And thanks to my porch, the home everyone’s drinking at is mine. Which, mostly, is a good thing.
I’ve lived in a few [...]

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Slacker

Oh man, everyone is posting such accomplishments – pergolas and guest bedrooms and ponds – and what are we doing?  Lamenting the rain and wishing it was warm enough to drink beer on the porch.  “Le sigh” – Joanna.

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On the Rocks

What would you say if I told you that we’re moving to Rhode Island because we just bought this house?  Hypothetically, with ten million hypothetical dollars.

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Finally, somewhere for my Ferrari

The house from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is on the market. But if you have $2.3 million for Cameron’s house (and if you do, thank you for consulting with me – my fees are very reasonable), I’d spent $490K more and buy this house instead.
Do you know the Ferris Bueller/Fight Club theory?  I’m one [...]

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1 Monkey Row

This is inspirational, to say the least.  I didn’t think I was going to finish the porch skirt today, but now…I’m still not going to, but I’m going to feel a lot lazier about it.
In 1969, when she was 58, the bulldozers reached her gate. Her response was to number each beam and pane of [...]

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Arbor eat ‘em

Our garden isn’t in yet, but we had frost last weekend, so I don’t think we’ve procrastinated in vain.  We’ve made our peace with the earth by putting two new trees in the ground this week. It’s carbon sequestration on a local scale.  Whoever the Michael Pollan of climate change is would approve, I’m sure.
The [...]

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Skirting the issue

Replacing the porch skirt is a project that’s been on our agenda since Day Uno.   We painted them stone-gray last fall as an interim fix, but that’s still pretty low on the aesthetic scale.
So here’s what’s up instead:

I still have five left to cut and build, and the whole mess to prime and paint.  But [...]

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Infinite Summer

#infsum: will you take up the challenge?

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