Spring sprang sprung

One of the pleasures of our yard is watching all the mystery plants appear in the spring. All the preceding owners have left their mark on every part of the yard, and every week there is a little surprise when the next generation of species appear. Currently appearing in the yard:

Purple phlox (to match the door)...
















Miss Lavender, who I am thrilled lived through the winter...





The bloodwort...

Some jonquils...














These guys...














and the party crasher, who invited himself in this winter and hasn't yet left.

Killing Time

Jeffrey was supposed to bring home a whole bunch of pictures I had surreptitiously loaded onto his work camera so I could amuse myself and elucidate re: the house, this evening. But he went straight to the House of Gaming and didn't bring home the jump drive, which has resulted in me using "stock" photos.

So, I amused myself by uploading a crapload of house photos to the flickr thread. Enjoy.

BONUS: Here's a picture of a sleepy kitten in a basket to make up for lack of a real post.

es gibt Biere hier!!!

After having visited the Hofbrauhaus in Cincinnati on a couple of trips, we decided that 43 needed a stately flag to enhance her beauty and to let people know "There is beer here!!" To the left is a picture of our newly acquired flag pole and Napoleonic Bavarian flag. The neighbors have not commented to date. We will of course change it out on West Virginia day, July 4th and Bastille day. At $6.00/flag on http://www.buyaflagyouhippy.com/ we may change it out weekly.

ciao,

Welcome to the Dollhouse.

I'm in the process of moving the blog over from our Yahoo Group...it's just too hard to post stuff there and some people don't like joining groups, so there. No commitment here.

But there should be commitment. To the house. To this place we have chosen to call Home.

We should be committed.

-s.

Originally posted 4-13-08

Sara and I started re-doing the kitchen this afternoon Sunday 04-13-08. We found an inspirational photo from a catalogue and have bought the supplies for the interim fix before the grand retiling etc. Will try to put up some pics as we progress. For those of you in the local
area we will be having a HGTV day at the old house. We have nearly completed all of the fixes and painting etc. at the old house once complete and ready to go on the market we would like you all to come over have a walk through and give us criticism. There will be champaigne and merrymaking also. I will keep you all posted. My boss came over with some divining rods and walked around my yard trying to find my footer drains. Interesting looks from the neighbors. we
located several pipes but are not sure which are for the footer drains or if there are any footer drains. We may have to dig to china yet.

Originally posted 3-13-08

Dr. Deel has been digging and glueing like man posessed, posesed, possessed, possesed, they really need spell-check on this site. We replace all of the downspout plumbing on the east side of the house. I will be digging up the west side this week. Saturday is a big landfill run to clean out the garage which has become a catch-all for anything removed from the house. We cleaned out the stone chimney out back and had dinner, chicken finger and veggie patties, by the fire last night.
I believe next year for Marshall U away games I am going to have tailgate parties in the screened in porch, which is wired for cable, and the fire pit. I was mistaken about the way the water was entering the house it is still coming from the Southeast corner. Promise I will
get some new pics uploaded.

Originally posted 3-08-09

After removing the subfloor from the basement in the future wargaming room I am now able to determine where the water is coming from.Sara and I came home Friday night to find about 5 gallons of water, I know because I mopped it up, in the utility room and the wargame room, from
now on referred to as the MEN'S ROOM (MR). Water is infiltrating from the eastern side of the house somewhere between the MR and the Laundry room and seeping out from under Northeast corner and migrating into the southwest corner. For those of you who are not hydrologist the first
rule of hydrology is that water runs down hill. Dr. Deel and I will be excavating approximately three (3) feet below ground surface (b.g.s.) as soon as the weather permits and re-installing a drainage system.
Upon completion of the new drainage I will be able to fully inhabit my lair and begin decorating with many stuffed animal heads, my uncle IS a taxidermist.